Fire Life Safety Building Evacuation Exercise (Academic and Administrative Buildings Only)

September 9, 2026 10:40–11:10 a.m.

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Harvey Mudd College
301 Platt Blvd.
Claremont, CA 91711

Contact

Kelly Salazar
ksalazar@hmc.edu

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Annual Fire Life Safety Evacuation Exercise
The Office of Emergency Preparedness and Safety will conduct its annual Fire Life Safety Building Evacuation Exercise on Wednesday, Sept. 9, from 10:40 a.m. to 11:10 a.m. This exercise helps ensure that students, faculty, staff, and visitors know how to respond and where to go in the event of a fire or other life safety emergency requiring evacuation.

The exercise begins at 10:40 a.m. with the activation of fire alarms in the following buildings:
Jacobs, Keck, Sprague, Parsons, Galileo, Olin, Beckman, McGregor, Shanahan Center, Kingston, and the Platt Campus Center.

All individuals in academic and administrative buildings are expected to evacuate promptly and proceed to the nearest evacuation site. After evacuating, please check in by either scanning the QR located at the evacuation site, or by checking in directly with an Evacuation Coordinator. Community members will be able to resume their normal schedules once the exercise has concluded. Please note that residence halls are not included in this drill.

For more information, please contact Kelly Salazar, emergency preparedness and safety manager.

This event is for: faculty, staff, students

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Practice Lockdown Exercise
November 03, 2026    
2:20 pm–2:30 pm
The Office of Emergency Preparedness and Safety will conduct a practice lockdown exercise on Tuesday, Nov. 3, at 2:20 p.m. A lockdown is an emergency [...]
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Practice Lockdown Exercise

The Office of Emergency Preparedness and Safety will conduct a practice lockdown exercise on Tuesday, Nov. 3, at 2:20 p.m. A lockdown is an emergency protocol designed to secure and protect individuals who are near an immediate threat. This procedure is used when it may be more dangerous to evacuate a building than to remain indoors.

At 2:20 p.m., HMC will initiate the exercise with an announcement sent via Mudd Alert, which you will receive through your HMC email (and by text message if you’ve chosen to opt in for text notifications using the Mudd Alert Registration form.

The goal of this exercise is to practice securing yourself in your current location should an emergency situation arise. The exercise will conclude no later than 2:30 p.m. with a second Mudd Alert notification indicating that it has ended. If you do not receive the first or second Mudd Alert messages, please proceed with initiating and concluding the exercise on your own wherever you are on campus during this timeframe. Community members will not be asked to evacuate during this lockdown exercise.

For more information, please contact Kelly Salazar, emergency preparedness and safety manager.

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