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Dial 1126 in event of on campus emergency
Ramsay Crawford
Issue date: 10/21/04 Section: News
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In the event of an emergency on campus between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., a call should immediately be placed to ext. #1126 (switchboard), not 911. The switchboard operator will take the basic info (location and nature of the emergency) necessary to relay to 911. The operator will then place the call to 911 and send a text message-page to the ERT on duty.
The two teams, organized last April, alternate duty monthly. Each team consists of 5 Lakeland faculty or staff and one student employed by Security. There is also at least one person on each team certified in Red Cross first aid.
"We can respond fairly quickly," says Paul White, director of the Hayssen Academic Resource Center and one of the team leaders, noting Lakeland's distance from first responders. "We'll take care of whatever first aid needs to be administered, we'll handle crowd control, and we'll get people out to the road to direct emergency responders."
The first unannounced test of the program came Wednesday, October 13. At 1:00 p.m. a page was sent informing the team on duty of a man down, unresponsive, in Old Main room 11.
Thirty-five seconds after the page went out, the first member of the team arrived at the scene. Less than 90 seconds later, the team member from the Campus Center arrived with the campus nurse, carrying a comprehensive first aid kit, an emergency blanket, and the campus AED (Automated External Defibrillator).
"I thought that the drill went very well," says White. "Everyone responded promptly and professionally."
"They were relieved to know that it was a drill," adds White. "That probably helped, because now they know what it'll be like when the pager goes off."