CFIS - Crisis Plan
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October 17, 2005
Dear Parents:
With the help of some staff members and the administrative team, I have devised a crisis plan that provides several scenarios in the event of an emergency. Each year, every building in the district revises and reviews their safety plan. The staff has a copy of this plan and is familiar with their roles for implementation.
As parents, you need to be familiar with your roles and be ready for implementation as well. Your cooperation with our plan will be the best way for you to help ensure the safety of your child as well as all the other children. Please familiarize yourself with the following list that outlines your role as a parent:
• Fill out the emergency information form and return it to your child's homeroom teacher immediately. It is designed to let us know who is allowed to pick up your child in the event of an emergency. Your child will not be allowed to go home with anyone who is not on this form.
• Send in any extra medications that are vital for your child (inhalers, EpiPen , seizure medication, etc.) to be kept in the emergency kit in the office used in an evacuation.
• Be sure your name and phone number(s) are on your child's homeroom emergency phone chain.
• Wait to receive information from the phone chain so you know exactly what the school is doing. Please do not call the school because we need to keep the phone lines open.
Please read the following carefully and call me if you have any questions or concerns.
Sincerely,
Charles A. Murphy, Jr.
Emergency Procedures If National Terror Alert Is Escalated To Red:
In the event that school is already in session when a “Red Alert” has been issued, school will stay in session until 3:15. Because of the uncertainty of the “Red Alert”, we are permitting parents or designees to come to school to get their child( ren ) throughout the day. The following are the procedures for signing a student out during a “Red Alert” day:
• Enter only through the main entrance by the office.
• You must show a photo ID before entering the building.
• Sign your child out in the school office.
• Students will be called to the office and released to you.
• Leave through the main entrance.
• No one will be permitted past the office.
Emergency Procedures Necessitating Evacuation:
In the event of an evacuation, the students will be taken to a different site. You will be contacted via the parent phone chain with the specific site. These sites have been chosen for their location relative to our school and the size of the facility to accommodate our entire student body.
After receiving word of our evacuation site, you may come to the designated site to pick up your child according to the same procedures listed on the “Red Alert” dismissal. Students prefer to be in the arms of their parents during uncertain circumstances. If you or your designee are unable to come to the evacuation site, the students will be kept until the normal dismissal time and a bus will take them home.
Emergency Procedures Necessitating a Lockdown:
In the event a lockdown is necessary, all students will be sheltered here at the Intermediate School for as long as needed or as directed by the Director of Cleveland Area Homeland Security, Superintendent, or Fire/Police.
This is perhaps the area of student safety with which we will need the most cooperation from our parent community. In this situation, no one will be permitted to leave or enter until we receive the “all clear” from emergency management officials.
Sheltering in place is particularly important because of the fear of cross-contamination from harmful chemical, biological or nuclear agents. If such an attack were to occur in downtown Cleveland, for example, parents returning to the Intermediate School without first being decontaminated, could spread harmful agents to the school building and the students. This is why it would be necessary to restrict access to the school and the students during a crisis precipitated by a biological, chemical or nuclear attack.
We sincerely hope that none of these measures ever become necessary. However, with your cooperation and thoughtful actions, we will be able to address the situation if an emergency does arise.
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