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What are evacuation warnings?

What are evacuation warnings?

California Standard Statewide Evacuation Terminology Evacuation Order: Immediate threat to life. This is a lawful order to leave now. Evacuation Warning: Potential threat to life and/or property. Those who require additional time to evacuate, and those with pets and livestock should leave now.

What are the four rules of emergency evacuation?

Prepare to evacuate.

  • Get your workplace ready to be left unattended.
  • For fire, close the doors as you go – do not lock them.
  • Assist any person in immediate danger.
  • Leave the building via the nearest safe route.
  • Obey all directions from wardens.

    • What order should patients be evacuated?

    General Patient Evacuation Guidelines Patients are to be evacuated horizontally by stretcher, wheelchair, or other method of transportation to an adjacent smoke compartment. Patients in immediate danger (due to smoke or fire) shall be removed first.

    What to take if you have to evacuate for a fire?

    All household & car keys, wallet, handbag, cell phones & any credit cards you keep in a drawer that you might need. Complete phone list or phone address book (snail and e‐mail), including cell phones of neighbors, family. Special or valuable items (make your own list).

    What should you not do during a fire evacuation?

    Do NOT

    • Leave candles, incense, barbecue grills or other open flames unattended.
    • Use halogen lamps near curtains or other combustibles.
    • Hang tapestries from walls or ceilings.
    • Leave cooking appliances unattended.
    • Use barbecue grills in or on any building or fire escape.
    • Smoke in bed.

    What should you do before fire evacuation?

    Make sure you know your community’s emergency response plan and have a plan on where to go when it is time to evacuate, and best routes for leaving your location. Shut all windows and doors, leaving them unlocked. Remove flammable window shades, curtains and close metal shutters. Remove lightweight curtains.

    What are the two main priorities when patients need to be evacuated?

    There are three primary conditions when evacuation would be necessary or should be considered: 1) Extreme emergency – Where there is an immediate threat to life or safety. 2) Emergency – No immediate threat, but an incident is likely to spread from an adjoining area.