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Below are guidelines to help you prepare for an emergency while participating in the Newhouse VPA LA program. Earthquakes and wildfires are a part of living in the LA area. While unlikely, the possibility remains that an event serious enough to require your evacuation from your residence may occur with little advance notice. Thus, we recommend that all students prepare a “Go Bag” including at least three days of clothes, medications, critical documents, cell phone charger, bottled water, protein bars or other snacks. We We also recommend purchasing a flashlight and leaving a pair of shoes under or close by your bed. Included below are guidelines for both earthquakes and wildfires. Please review and keep handy while studying in the LA area.
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- If wildfires are reported, be sure to follow the local news and reports on social media for the latest information on the location of the fires and their possible impact. Be sure to check with your internship before travelling there to make sure they will be open for business. If you believe that there is no safe route to your internship, then let them know that you will not be able to get there that day. You are responsible for evaluating your own situation and deciding on a course of action with your safety first as a priority.
- The Newhouse VPA LA staff will also be following the progress of any wildfires and will advise all students accordingly by email, text or What's App with available public information. Please promptly promptly read any messages and reply to check-in requests received . Please note that our staff does NOT have access to special information not otherwise available to the public. We will, however, use our experience as residents of LA to provide you with the best available public information.
- If a students’ housing accommodation is impacted by a wildfire and the LA Fire Department or the Police Department determine that residents are required to evacuate, that student will be asked to contact Newhouse VPA LA staff and proceed to the SULA Dick Clark Center with their “go bag”, provided the area around the SULA Dick Clark Center is not also impacted. In the unlikely event that the SULA Dick Clark Center is also impacted, we advise students to proceed to the nearest Evacuation Facility as designated by the city.
- Newhouse VPA LA staff also reserves the right to order your evacuation if authorities recommend (but do not mandate) an evacuation. Under these conditions, we will evaluate all available public information and determine a course of action. As with mandated evacuations, if we ask you to leave your residence you are asked to come to the SULA Dick Clark Center with your “Go Bag.”
- Please be aware that Newhouse VPA LA staff will be in regular contact with support personnel from main campus in Syracuse during a crisis. The University will work diligently to promote your safety and to afford the opportunity to continue your academic work.
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