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About this Event
Each fall Reed tests its emergency notification systems by sending alert messages out to all community members on a pre-planned date and time. And, each October, the state of Oregon has a statewide earthquake preparedness drill called the Great Oregon ShakeOut. Reed will participate in the statewide drill by conducting our annual emergency systems test at 10:17 a.m. on October 17. Please review the following in order to prepare for the drill.
What to expect
At 10:17 a.m. our emergency notification system will send simultaneous e-mails, voice messages, and text messages (if your device is registered in Reed's Emergency Alert Service) to ALL Reed community members enrolled in the system. All Reed e-mails and campus phones are automatically enrolled.
During the drill we will test the Informacast system that allows us to speak in real time to all campus phones with speakers. The test will take approximately 60 seconds, during which time there will be an audio message that will be heard directly through the speaker in your phone. If you are on a call, the call will not drop, but you will hear the test message over the caller.
Within approximately five minutes of the start of the drill we will send an "all clear" message and officially end the drill.
What to do before the drill
- Look at the Shakeout web site: http://shakeout.org/oregon/
- Check out the resources, such as Seven Steps to Earthquake Safety
- Try to pick out "Drop, Cover, & Hold" spots in your work or study areas so you won't have to figure it out after the shaking starts. The above resources have information on the safest places to be during an earthquake
- Plan for a 3-5 minute interruption on Thursday morning
- Check to see if your device is registered to receive text messages by logging onto IRIS and looking at your information in the Campus Alert Service area. Remember, in order to receivedalerts on your mobile device, including text message alerts, your device must be registered in our alert system. To check the numbers you have registered, log onto IRIS and go to the Campus Alert Service link.
What to do during the drill
- Drop, Cover, and Hold for a minute in your space, or use the time to find the place where you would do this in a real emergency
- Do NOT call community safety or try to answer the emergency alert test messages (unless you have an actual emergency)
What to do after the drill
- Make a mental note of where your safest places would be during an earthquake
- Review the available information on family and home preparedness
If you have questions beforehand, or feedback after the fact, please contact Gary Granger. Thank you in advance for your participation.
"Drop, cover, and hold" photo contest: Gary Granger will award a personal "Deluxe Emergency Preparedness Kit" for the best photo of Reed community members taking cover during the drill! Send in your photos the day of the drill to be considered.
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