Emergency Operations Center (EOC)

The primary EOC is located in Fieldhouse classroom 100A.  The Emergency Response Committee may meet there in event of a disaster resulting in injuries or significant building damages.  If the Fieldhouse is not functional or safe to use, the Emergency Response Committee will select a most suitable backup site based on building damage surveys.

Appendices A, B and C are Fieldhouse and Pamplin Fitness Center building floor plans which identify the EOC and sites for First Aid Treatment, the First Aid Report Clerk, the Building Damage/Entrapment Report Clerk, as well as Security Services, Dining and Conference Services, Office of Information Services, Student Affairs/Student Development/Counseling, Health and Wellness/Chaplain Staff Gathering Areas, Office of Communications, and a 24-hour Information and Message Center.

The Director of Security Services may appoint a First Aid Report Clerk and the Director of Facilities Services may appoint a Building Damage/Entrapment Report Clerk who will be stationed in the Fieldhouse Reporting Area.  Clerks will record injury, building condition, entrapment and other information communicated by building disaster coordinators and others.  If available, Emergency Response Committee member support staff will serve as report clerks.

Security and Facilities Services Departments may assign "runners" to their clerks.  Runners may bring report information to the Emergency Response Committee (in the EOC) and/or communicate guidance and instructions from the Emergency Response Committee to clerks and/or Facilities and Security staffs.

Some or all Emergency Response Committee members may station themselves in the Reporting Area at times to expedite reporting and dispatching.

The 24-hour Information and Message Center is located in the Athletics Office, Room 202.  Office of Communications staff may work from this space.

A special Disaster Information voice message box (extension 4900) will be used to provide abbreviated reports regarding the status of campus occupants, facilities, and operations.  A voice message will be updated frequently to provide current, general information to callers and/or to refer callers to other telephone numbers or the web site.