Fire season has begun in Southern California. The Saddleridge Fire in the San Fernando Valley has consumed more than 7,500 acres and is far from containment. Douglas Kent, an adjunct professor at Cal Poly Pomona and author of “Firescaping” (Wilderness…
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Cal Poly Pomona now has 21 emergency evacuation chairs in multi-story buildings on campus. The Office of Emergency Management, in the Department of Institutional Risk, recently acquired and installed 19 new chairs. What are emergency evacuation chairs? The chairs are…
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Cal Poly Pomona will conduct a campus-wide test of the Alertus Desktop portion of its Safety Alert System on Friday, Oct. 27 at 8:30 a.m. The Alertus Desktop notification system sends safety messages to university-owned computers equipped with Alertus software. It…
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Cal Poly Pomona’s Building Marshal/Floor Captain program is getting an overhaul and a fresh look. The program’s 88 volunteer building marshals and floor captains went through an academy July 19 that trained them on their first responder duties. The one-day…
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Cal Poly Pomona is a pretty safe place to work and study because of people like Whitney Fields, the director of Institutional Risk and Emergency Management. Fields and the team he leads are responsible for ensuring the campus is as…
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Cal Poly Pomona’s emergency services coordinator has been recognized for her acclaimed work in the emergency management field. Debbi McFall, who has been a member of the Cal Poly Pomona community for the past 21 years, was recently honored at…
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Cal Poly Pomona will test its Safety Alert System on Thursday, Oct. 17 at 10:17 a.m. Students, faculty and staff should expect a brief test message on their cell, home and office phones, as well as an email. The test…
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Caltech’s map of recent earthquakes in Southern California is pocked with colored boxes. Virtually all are small, signifying earthquakes with a magnitude of 3.0 or less — little more than gentle reminders that the ground is continually moving. But that…
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To the University Community: These have been dark days for our country. We are mourning the killings of 26 children and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Across the country, people have been arrested for threatening similar shootings in malls,…
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This Thursday, Oct. 18, at 10:18 a.m., the university community will participate in the annual state earthquake drill.
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