{"id":26436,"date":"2014-02-13T11:20:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T16:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=26436"},"modified":"2014-02-13T11:20:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T16:20:31","slug":"emergency-system-testing-at-brock-during-reading-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/02\/emergency-system-testing-at-brock-during-reading-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency system testing at Brock during reading week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26437\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ens.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26437\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-26437\" title=\"ens\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ens-1024x489.jpg\" alt=\"    \" width=\"504\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">    <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Next week during reading week, Brock officials will be co-ordinating an upgrade and test of the University&#8217;s emergency notification system.<\/p>\n<p>The work will take place over three days from Wednesday, Feb. 19 to Friday, Feb. 21 and could impact emergency communications systems in various areas around campus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Occupants on campus next week will experience activation of the emergency notification system at various points during the day on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,&#8221; says Rick Fraser, emergency preparedness and life safety officer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to attempt to keep the interruptions to a minimum,&#8221; says Fraser. &#8220;This work will improve our ability to effectively communicate across the entire campus as well as to specific buildings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday will consist mainly of behind-the-scenes work, but both Thursday&#8217;s and Friday&#8217;s tests could get loud.<\/p>\n<p>Testing will include activating University-wide messaging systems as well as building-specific systems such as digital signs, PA systems, voice mail, email and text messages.<\/p>\n<p>The warning notice &#8220;Test, test,&#8221; will preface all audio and video messages related to this planned test exercise. Messages that do not include the &#8220;Test, test&#8221; warning should be treated as a real emergency and appropriate action should be taken.<\/p>\n<p>Any test messages received via voice mail, text or email can be deleted.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from Campus Security, Information Technology Services and Residence Life Staff (in residence only) will be on hand during testing to respond to questions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/campus-security\/\">Campus Security<\/a> may also be contacted at any time during the testing at x3200.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next week during reading week, Brock officials will be co-ordinating an upgrade and test of the University&#8217;s emergency notification system. The work will take place over three days from Wednesday, Feb. 19 to Friday, Feb. 21 and could impact emergency communications systems in various areas around campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[135,1115,630,628,180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26439,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26436\/revisions\/26439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}