{"id":1915,"date":"2022-05-12T11:31:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T18:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/urgent-news\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2022-05-12T11:32:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T18:32:19","slug":"ufv-building-t-in-chilliwack-conducting-lockdown-drill-may-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/urgent-news\/2022\/05\/12\/ufv-building-t-in-chilliwack-conducting-lockdown-drill-may-18\/","title":{"rendered":"UFV Building T in Chilliwack conducting lockdown drill &#8211; May 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, May 18, at 10am, UFV in conjunction with Chilliwack RCMP, will conduct a lockdown drill in the UFV Trades and Technology Centre (Building T) on the Chilliwack campus. This drill will take place at 10 am in Building T only.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a student in this building at this time, your faculty will have more information for you. If you are concerned this drill may cause a traumatic response or disturb you, please contact your faculty member directly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/safety-and-security\/emergency-guides\/lockdown\/\">Lockdown<\/a> is a term used in the K-12 educational system and by the RCMP. This is an emergency procedure that will help secure buildings and protect people from a potential immediate threat. This procedure is used when staying inside a building is safer than evacuating.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What to expect on Wednesday, May 18 at 10am during the drill: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The RCMP may attend this drill to observe and you may see people in uniform in and around Building T.<\/li>\n<li>You may hear announcements commencing and ending the drill via loudspeaker or via megaphone.<\/li>\n<li>Faculty, students, and staff in Building T who are participating will move to safe areas in their building. They will be following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/safety-and-security\/emergency-guides\/lockdown\/\">this lockdown procedure<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Counselling services will be available to assist those who require services on the day of the drill.<\/li>\n<li>Drill participants in Building T will be notified by their faculty and through various UFV communication channels in advance and on the day of the drill.<\/li>\n<li>Reminders of the drill will be sent to all UFV faculty and staff on all campuses in the days leading up to the drill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The purpose of this lockdown drill is to increase staff, student, and faculty awareness and familiarity with procedures required to maximize safety when a threat may be in, or around, a UFV building.<\/p>\n<p>To receive vital information on your phone during an emergency or during severe weather, <a href=\"https:\/\/fraservalley.bbcportal.com\/Entry\">register for UFV Alert<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>If you have questions about this drill, please email <a href=\"mailto:safetysecurity@ufv.ca\">safetysecurity@ufv.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, May 18, at 10am, UFV in conjunction with Chilliwack RCMP, will conduct a lockdown drill in the UFV Trades and Technology Centre (Building T) on the Chilliwack campus. This drill will take place at 10 am in Building T only. If you are a student in this building at this time, your faculty &#8230; <a title=\"UFV Building T in Chilliwack conducting lockdown drill &#8211; May 18\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/urgent-news\/2022\/05\/12\/ufv-building-t-in-chilliwack-conducting-lockdown-drill-may-18\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/urgent-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/urgent-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/urgent-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/urgent-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/urgent-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/urgent-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1916,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/urgent-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions\/1916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/urgent-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/urgent-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/urgent-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}