The following summary is a synopsis of the College's Emergency Evacuation Plan. It is meant to provide an overview understanding of the plan's basic commitments and strategies, but for purposes of brevity and security, does not outline all internal details, assignments, and locations. These exist in the Crisis Management Team's broader Crisis Management Plan and would be made available to students, employees and their families in case of an actual emergency.

First Steps
Upon notification of an emergency situation, the College's Crisis Management Team would be alerted and assembled to assess the situation, initiate contact with, and to receive specific instructions from, the appropriate local, state or national authorities. The team would then use the confirmed information to determine appropriate campus response and communicate instructions to students, employees and their families.

Evacuation Procedures
If a decision is made to evacuate the campus – the team would consider the specific needs of, and communicate instructions for, the following campus groups:

Students

• Local: living within 1 hour drive
  
• Regional: living within 2-8 hour drive
  
• National: living within 8 hour or more drive
  
• International Students
  
• Students with a disability
  
• Within the above categories
  
• Students with cars
  
• Students without cars

Employees

• Essential
  
• Non-essential

Summary Action Steps for Evacuating Students

1) Students leaving campus via their own transportation:
Each student leaving campus via their own transportation will be asked to register their evac location using one of the following:

• Sign-out sheets that will be placed on the doors of every student residence hall and apartment; Resident Directors in each of those facilities will collect this information for dissemination on a rolling basis
• E-mailing their name, student ID, person they are traveling with, destination, and contact phone number to dispatch@messiah.edu
• Calling and leaving the above information by phone at ext. 6009 or at 1-877-MC-READY (1-877-627-3239)
• Campus "phone banks" and e-mail terminals will be made available in various locations for students leaving campus in order to contact their families.
• This student evacuation information will be processed and distributed by numerous offices on campus and families would be given specific instructions on where to call via the College's web site or emergency hotline.

2) Students who are having someone from off campus pick them up:
These students would be prepared to meet their rides at a location designated by the Crisis Management Team. Traffic control personnel will direct those picking up students to the proper locations, which would also be designated via the College web site and emergency hotline, and other means of campus communications.

Essential Employees
The Crisis Management Team will designate specific staff assignments for essential employees through employees' individual supervisors. Some likely assignments include:

• Building and Property Service staff
  
• Campus Events staff
  
• Campus Information Center (CIC) staff
  
• Counseling Staff
  
• Dining Services staff
  
• Dispatch
  
• Early Learning Center
  
• Oakes Museum Staff
  
• Public Relations staff
  
• Residence Education Staff

Non-Essential Employees

• Non-essential staff will be dismissed as notified by supervisor
  
• Non-essential staff will be asked to assist in the housing of students who need a place to stay and will be notified where to report to pick up student(s) on their way off campus.

Communication
All off-campus communication will be communicated by the Public Information Sub-team of the College's larger Crisis Management Team, and will use the following means to communicate official College statements and instructions:

• Campus-wide phone mail
  
• Campus-wide e-mail
  
• Messiah College web site (www.messiah.edu)
  
• Messiah College hot line (717.691.6084)
  
• Residence education staff in the residence halls
  
• Campus Events staff can go to classrooms and inform instructors of decision
  
• Channel 6
  
• Emergency signage at bulletin boards and on doors
  
• Local media

To communicate clearance to return to campus, the College will use the following primary means:

• Messiah College web site (www.messiah.edu)
  
• Messiah College hot line (717.691.6084)
  
• Local media