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Emergency Evacuation Procedures

Individuals with disabilities may have special needs in emergency situations. The best way for students with disabilities to ensure that they are safe on campus is to plan ahead, taking into account their own needs and limitations. The University of California, Davis has a comprehensive system for emergency planning. Under this system, each Department has an emergency plan, including a building evacuation plan, and a safety coordinator charged with implementing that plan.

During classes, students with disabilities can usually rely on their professors and peers to notify them of or assist them with an emergency evacuation. If you will be spending time alone in a particular building on a regular basis, you should contact the safety coordinator responsible for that area to discuss your needs. You can find a list of the safety coordinators and the departments they serve at http://ehs.ucdavis.edu/hs/dsa/index.cfm.

As part of their training, the safety coordinators are given guidelines on how to assist individuals with disabilities during an evacuation (see http://planit.ucdavis.edu/howto/Evac.dis.safetynet.htm for the information provided to the safety coordinators). In some circumstances, it will not be safe for the safety coordinator or others to evacuate an individual with a disability. In those circumstances, the coordinators will notify emergency personnel of the individual's location and need for assistance.

Campus Emergency Phones
There are emergency phones and call boxes placed throughout campus, usually on poles with blue lights on the top. For all of those phones, the emergency response system is activated simply by lifting the receiver. Emergency personnel will be sent to the phone's location immediately, even if the person activating the phone does not speak.

Elevator Emergency Systems
Each elevator on campus has an alarm system. Some have only an alarm button, with no two-way communication. If that alarm is activated, the emergency response system will send emergency personnel to the elevator. Some elevators have telephones or speakers. In those elevators, the emergency response system is alerted when the receiver is lifted or the speaker button is pushed. As with the campus emergency phones, emergency personnel will be sent even if the person activating the system does not speak.

Visual Alarms
Many buildings on the UC Davis campus are equipped with visual alarms (flashing lights) that are activated with the building's fire alarm. The following buildings are equipped with visual alarms:

  1. ACADEMIC SURGE
  2. ANTENNA FARM (Microwave Facility)
  3. ART STUDIO (ANNEX)
  4. BAINER
  5. ALUMNI CENTER
  6. CARU MODULAR
  7. DATA CENTER
  8. CROCKER ANNEXX
  9. CROSS CULTURAL CENTER
  10. CENTER FOR COMPARATIVE MEDICINE
  11. CREATIVE COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES - Chiles Road
  12. DUTTON HALL
  13. ENGINEERING UNIT 2
  14. EUIII (Walker replacement)
  15. ENOLOGY
  16. ENVIRONMENTAL HORT
  17. ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES
  18. FOOD, SCIENCE &TECHNOLOGY
  19. FPMS LAB&OFC
  20. FREEBORN HALL
  21. GOULD BOWLEY
  22. GROWTH CHAMBER
  23. HART HALL
  24. KERR HALL
  25. LIFE SCIENCES
  26. MADDY LAB
  27. MED SCI C
  28. MINI CENTER
  29. MU BOOKSTORE
  30. MU COFFEE HOUSE
  31. MU TOWER & SW AREA
  32. MUSIC BUILDING
  33. MRAK
  34. NET 21 TRAILER
  35. NORTH HALL
  36. OLSON
  37. PLANT ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES
  38. PRIMATE NEW ANIMAL WING
  39. PRIMATE QUARANTINE
  40. REC POOL LODGE
  41. ROESSLER HALL
  42. SHIELDS EAST AND WEST
  43. SILO
  44. SILO EXPANSION
  45. SOCIAL SCIENCES
  46. SOUTH HALL
  47. SURGE 3
  48. SWINE FACILITY
  49. TES (Thermal Chiller Plant)
  50. TB 206
  51. TB 207
  52. TUPPER HALL
  53. VOORHIES HALL
  54. WELLMAN HALL
  55. WESTERN CENTER FOR AG.
  56. WASTE WATERTREATMENT PLANT
  57. WYATT
  58. MEYER HALL
  59. Castillian North
  60. Castillian South
  61. Oxford DC
  62. Webster
  63. Emerson
  64. Bixby
  65. Gilmore
  66. Malcolm
  67. Ryerson
  68. Colleges at La Rue
  69. Primero Grove
  70. Thoreau
  71. Tercero Dining Commons
  72. Housing Admin.
  73. 1633 Da Vinci Ct.
  74. 1632 Da Vinci Ct.
  75. 3rd & A st.
  76. 1544 Newton
  77. 1515 Newton
  78. South Parking Structure
  79. Quad Parking Structure
  80. La Rue Atrium Apartments
  81. Parkway Fraternities & Sorority
  82. Parkway Circle Co-Ops
  83. 50 Atrium
  84. Schalm Hall
  85. Physical Plant

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Last updated February 19, 2008
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