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A Message from the Campus Fire Marshal

Exit Buildings when a Fire Alarm Sounds:

As the SUU campus fire marshal, I urge faculty and staff to follow a few life-saving steps with regard to fire evacuation.

Be Safe, When in Doubt Get Out!

You can save a life! How? Exit the building when the fire alarm sounds!

When a fire alarm sounds, all building occupants must evacuate the building. Many fire fatalities have been caused because occupants assumed the alarm was false or were busy completing a task in the building. If you wait to smell the smoke before leaving, you are risking your health and your life may be in danger. The importance of this life-saving action cannot be overemphasized. Occupants that do not evacuate when a fire alarm sounds not only risk their own lives, but also the live of emergency responders and rescuers who must now rescue the occupants instead of neutralizing the cause of the emergency.

An emergency alarm may sound upon the release of colorless and odorless chemicals. Therefore, there may be life-threatening fire or non-fire conditions that are not immediately noticeable. Your immediate and calm evacuation is necessary during any fire alarm.

Become familiar with your building so that you know the location of fire extinguishers, pull stations and evacuation routes.

After evacuation, do not re-enter the building until permission to do so has been given by the Authority Having Jurisdiction.

Departments should have a plan for designated locations for employees to meet outside the building and should be prepared to assist first-responders in identifying persons unaccounted for in actual emergency situations.

Faculty and staff should direct their students and employees to follow evacuation procedures when any building fire alarm sounds.

Let me emphasize that Southern Utah University is committed to a high level of fire- and life-safety, as demonstrated by our investments in fire sprinkler and alarm systems. Many of the campus buildings are equipped with automatic fire suppression/sprinkler systems All major campus buildings are provided with automatic fire and smoke detection systems connected to the Facilities Management Call Center via a fire-alarm reporting network. However, every individual needs to take part to maintain and improve the level of personal and building fire safety. In particular, note that good housekeeping is one of the most important elements of fire prevention. Do not allow anyone to store anything in stairwells or corridors, never store anything where is will block access to fire alarm control panels or system risers, never store items within 18” below a fire sprinkler head, and never allow any fire doors to be blocked open. It is your life; you are in charge of fire safety!

If you have any questions about the building alarms and evacuation routes, or about how to report a problem, please contact me at (435) 5086-7964.