How to respond if an active shooter is in your vicinity.
- RUN
- If there is an escape path, attempt to evacuate
- Prevent others from entering the area
- Evacuate whether other agree or not
- Meet at a predetermined area, do not leave campus
- Leave your belongings behind
- Call 911 when you are safe
- Help others escape if possible
- HIDE
- Lock and/or blockade the door
- Hide behind large objects
- Silence your cell phone
- Remain very quiet
- FIGHT
- Attempt to incapacitate the shooter
- Act with physical aggression
- Improvise weapons
- Commit to your actions
- When Law Enforcement arrives on the scene:
- Do exactly as the team of officers instructs
- Do not approach the officers
- Keep your hands visible, fingers spread, and empty.