Disaster Drill at SBU on March 25
An emergency drill will shut down the St. Bonaventure University campus for three hours on Wednesday, March 25.
From approximately 9 a.m. until noon, the campus community will go into lockdown as officers from local and state police agencies arrive on campus to deal with a “shooter scenario” disaster drill. University officials have been working on more detailed emergency planning and preparedness plans since the tragedy at Virginia Tech two years ago.
“We’ve invested hundreds and hundreds of man-hours to working on a plan,” said Rick Trietley, vice provost for student life and head of SBU’s Emergency Management Team, a group of key university officials assigned to make critical decisions at the onset of and during an emergency.
Two additional committees — Emergency Preparedness and Emergency Response, made up of representatives from every office and department on campus — have been working for more than a year on preparing for a wide range of potential emergencies, from dangerous weather to pandemic disease.
“Ultimately, we felt we had to conduct an emergency drill to get a sense of how effective our planning has been,” Trietley said. “We wouldn’t have been able to do this without the full cooperation of the campus community, as well as local law enforcement agencies.”
Emergency planners have conducted both in-person and Web-based training to prepare students, faculty and staff for the drill. An independent evaluation team will monitor the drill and share their findings with SBU emergency planners on Thursday, March 26.
Police officers will be stationed at all entrances to campus during the drill, making campus inaccessible to entry or exit until the drill is complete. (People with urgent need to get off or on campus during the drill will need to call campus security at 375-2525.)
“We recognize that this will be somewhat of an inconvenience to people both on campus and off, but this exercise is so important to conduct — for us internally, but just as much for emergency responders who might not be as familiar with our campus as we’d like them to be,” Trietley said.
From approximately 9 a.m. until noon, the campus community will go into lockdown as officers from local and state police agencies arrive on campus to deal with a “shooter scenario” disaster drill. University officials have been working on more detailed emergency planning and preparedness plans since the tragedy at Virginia Tech two years ago.
“We’ve invested hundreds and hundreds of man-hours to working on a plan,” said Rick Trietley, vice provost for student life and head of SBU’s Emergency Management Team, a group of key university officials assigned to make critical decisions at the onset of and during an emergency.
Two additional committees — Emergency Preparedness and Emergency Response, made up of representatives from every office and department on campus — have been working for more than a year on preparing for a wide range of potential emergencies, from dangerous weather to pandemic disease.
“Ultimately, we felt we had to conduct an emergency drill to get a sense of how effective our planning has been,” Trietley said. “We wouldn’t have been able to do this without the full cooperation of the campus community, as well as local law enforcement agencies.”
Emergency planners have conducted both in-person and Web-based training to prepare students, faculty and staff for the drill. An independent evaluation team will monitor the drill and share their findings with SBU emergency planners on Thursday, March 26.
Police officers will be stationed at all entrances to campus during the drill, making campus inaccessible to entry or exit until the drill is complete. (People with urgent need to get off or on campus during the drill will need to call campus security at 375-2525.)
“We recognize that this will be somewhat of an inconvenience to people both on campus and off, but this exercise is so important to conduct — for us internally, but just as much for emergency responders who might not be as familiar with our campus as we’d like them to be,” Trietley said.
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