Campus Fire Safety: GreatEscapeOnCampus & Training

The Great Escape on Campus!
Randall L. Hormann, our Executive Director, has developed a training program called "The Great Escape on Campus". The program is designed to teach students the importance of escape planning and early evacuation in their residence halls, fraternity/sorority house, or off campus housing. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has indorsed the creation and implementation of this very unique training program.

Great Escape This program discusses the realities of fire and what students need to know to be prepared for a fire emergency. Using safe smoke, we do a fire simulation within a student housing facility. While we are lecturing to the students about fire prevention and survival techniques, our staff is filling hallways and corridors with safe smoke. We mimic the conditions that would likely exist in a dormitory, residence hall, or Greek housing fire. This program is not designed to surprise or scare students. Instead, our purpose is to demonstrate how quickly one can become lost, disoriented, and confused during a fire emergency in the place they call home. Students enter the smoke filled hallways to find the way out of their home.

This is one training program students find fun and exciting. Institutions we have provided the program to have been very happy with the end result. The comments from students have been very favorable. This is a program students enjoy participating in and learning from. We have done this program in residence hall, fraternity houses, academic buildings, and large sports complexes to assist in disaster training for employees.

Ultimately, the program works to reinforce why early evacuation, escape planning, and practice are vital to students' safety, in a "real-world" way to which young adults can relate.

Visit our new web site dedicated to the "Great Escape on Campus" program at Http://www.GreatEscapeOnCampus.com

Randall L. Hormann, was a featured lecturer on the "Great Escape on Campus" at the 2000 and 2001 NFPA Fall Educational Conference. He was asked to lecture about the success of the program at the 2001 Campus Safety, Health and Environmental Management Association (CSHEMA) annual conference at Texas A&M University. We are very interested in bringing the "Great Escape on Campus" to your students.