Fire
Call Campus Police at 412.396.2677
If you discover smoke or fire
- If it is safe to do so, get everyone from immediate danger and close the door to the area to confine the smoke and fire.
- Pull the building fire alarm along your evacuation route.
- If the fire is small and you are properly trained, control the fire with available firefighting equipment.
- Before you go through a door to leave a room, feel the door with your hand. Do not open any door that feels hot.
- Do not return for personal belongings.
- If there is smoke, stay low.
- Use stairs to reach an exit floor. Do not use elevators.
- After you are out of danger, Call Campus Police at 412.396.2677.
- When you are outside, check in with your floor marshal, supervisor or instructor so everyone can be accounted for.
If you catch on fire
- Do not run. Stop, drop and roll to put out the flames.
- If you are trapped, wedge wet towels or cloth along the bottom of doors to keep out smoke.
- Close as many doors as possible between you and the fire.
- Call Campus Police at 412.396.2677 to report the fire and your location.
- If you are trapped and need fresh air break the window only as a last resort.
Response to fire alarms
- When an alarm sounds, leave the building immediately. Never assume it is a false alarm.
- Do not use elevators.
- Do not return for personal belongings.
- Help people who are unfamiliar with the building or people with disabilities escape the building.