ABSTRACT
Ask any president, provost, or director of emergency operations at most colleges and universities across the country and they will tell you that they have an emergency management plan in place. But was the plan written in consultation with the local Ofce of Emergency Management (OEM), re and police departments? Are the plans practiced? Most frequently, the only safety training that college/university faculty, staff, and students participate in is re drills. However, even when re alarms sound, oftentimes those on campus continue to teach, study, and ignore the sounding alarm. Is this because they perhaps have been involved in what they perceive to be more than their share of false alarms or practice drills? It will be unfortunate for those too busy to drill when a real re strikes and they will not have evacuated.
