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Exit Door Procedures
Reporting to Main Panel
Other Notes

Role of Floor Emergency Wardens:

The role of the Floor Emergency warden in our building is to:

• ensure that all people in the area are aware that an alarm is in progress and that they should evacuate the building immediately
• help direct people to an exit in an orderly manner
• identify any areas in the building where people remain so fire fighters can rescue them if necessary

Before an alarm, every Floor Emergency Warden should become familiar with all the rooms in the wing for which they are responsible. Walk around and check all the doors including growth rooms and walk-in incubators/freezers.

Evacuation alarm: (LOUD whoop, whoop):

• wear your red hat and carry a pencil and paper to record notes during the evacuation.
• proceed to clear your wing: check all doors and inform people to leave the building immediately. Advise them 'Do Not use elevator'. Close all doors (locked or unlocked) to slow the spread of fire.
• if a room is locked, knock and yell to evacuate building
• be sure to check all washrooms
• get non-ambulatory people to a safe area (like a stairwell); have someone stay with the person if possible; report their location to the main panel as soon as possible.
• don't argue with anyone who will not leave. Record their name/location and report to the Main Fire Panel as soon as possible
• try and exit via your assigned door (see Fire Warden List)
• report information about your floor/wing to the fire warden at the exit
• wait until you receive the 'All Clear' over the intercom (or from a runner). Make sure the all clear was authorized by the Fire Department, the Uof A Fire Marshall or Campus Security.
  

The first fire warden reaching the exit is responsible for:

• keeping everyone outside until the 'All clear' is received.
• collecting and reporting information from fire wardens exiting via that door. You will need a paper and pencil to record information from people and all fire wardens should have this with their fire helmet. You can print a table of the building floor checklist to mark cleared floors.

If there is a phone at your door, the second fire warden reaching that exit uses the phone to communicate with the Main Fire Panel. The Main fire panel is located at the Zoology/Psychology junction and the exit doors with fire phones are Genetics (East) and Botany/Microbiology (NorthEast).

Any other fire wardens arriving at the exit assist the first two in guarding the door and communicating information to the Main panel.

• All information from each of the fire wardens should be conveyed to the Main Fire Panel either by a fire phone or via a runner.
• Phones are located at the Genetics-East exit and the Botany-Microbiology NorthEast exit but there are phones in every elevator lobby on all levels.
• The phones can call in to the main panel and will be answered from there. After picking up the phone, wait for the Main panel to respond.
• Advise the Main Panel every 3 minutes as long as you have anything new to report.
• Be sure to report floors cleared as well as any problems.
• If there is no phone available, then send a runner around the building to an door with a phone to report the information from your exit.

4. A building evacuation may be called for reasons other than a fire (e.g. gas leak or bomb threat). Just because there does not appear to be a fire does not mean there is not a problem.