{"id":52015,"date":"2018-06-25T14:25:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T18:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=52015"},"modified":"2018-06-25T16:01:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T20:01:13","slug":"emergency-exercise-planned-for-brock-campus-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/06\/emergency-exercise-planned-for-brock-campus-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency exercise planned for Brock campus Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Members of the Niagara Regional Police Emergency Tactical Unit (ETU) will be on Brock\u2019s main campus for a planned emergency exercise on Wednesday, June 27.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The joint training operation will run from 8:30 a.m. to noon, and include the presence of ETU vehicles and officers in tactical gear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Signage will be set up in strategic locations across campus to notify passersby that the exercise is underway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe run an emergency exercise every year. Some are more involved than others, but we always partner with local emergency services,\u201d said Rick Fraser, Brock\u2019s Manager, Emergency Management and Life Safety.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Details of the scenario being run on Wednesday are not being released in order to maintain the integrity of the training exercise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAll exercises are based on emergencies that could potentially happen on campus,\u201d Fraser said. \u201cWe try to look at scenarios that are topical, relevant and could, but rarely ever do, happen on campus. That\u2019s why we need to practise our response and test our emergency management plan.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The involved ETU officers will be practising a certain aspect of their own response protocols Wednesday while Brock simultaneously holds its own exercise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTowards the end, they will merge together and become one exercise,\u201d Fraser said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Campus Security Services will remain in constant contact with the officers while they are on campus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the training is happening, the University will also test its emergency notification system on electronic scrolling screens found on campus. The messaging will clearly indicate a test is underway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anyone with questions or concerns regarding the exercise is asked to contact Campus Security Services at 905-688-5550 x3200.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Niagara Regional Police Emergency Tactical Unit (ETU) will be on Brock\u2019s main campus for a planned emergency exercise on Wednesday, June 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":52016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3319,4052,1,4],"tags":[4912,3904,660,3903],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52015"}],"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\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52017,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52015\/revisions\/52017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}