FIRE DRILLS

Clients are required to participate in a fire drill at a minimum of once per year. Drills will be held more frequently if requested. The purpose of these drills is to familiarize all tenants with the fire alarm signals and to undertake an actual evacuation thus familiarizing the occupants with the building's stairwells and emergency exit routes.

Drill Preparations:

• Property Management will notify Clients in writing and post signs in the main lobby notifying the tenants of the drill time and location.
  
• The tenant's Fire Warden is responsible for circulating a memo throughout the company/floor. This memo shall include the floor evacuation instructions and this drill's predetermined point of evacuation, drill date and times.
  
• A skeleton crew may remain in the tenant's office to conduct business and assume security during the drill. However, those who remained in the office during the first drill must participate in the subsequent drills.

Actual Drill Procedures:

• Drills are normally held at 10:00 am, assuming that most tenants have arrived for work and are aware that the alarms are only a drill.
  
• (There is no PA system in the building)
  
• At 10:00 am Property Management will activate a manual fire alarm pull station . You will hear the activation on the audible horn system. Alarm lamps/ strobes will flash on the floor of incidence and the floor above.
  
• The floor Fire Warden should be putting the floor evacuation plan into action. Property Management will only supervise this drill. In an actual fire, Property Management would be attempting to control the fire and coordinating the operation of the life safety systems. The tenant should have an evacuation plan that will be totally independent of building leadership during an emergency.
  
• Property Management will then sound and evacuation signal to the floor conducting the drill. Occupants should leave the floor via the nearest stairwell (or emergency exit route – for the 1st floor tenants).
  
• After the drill is concluded the Property Management team will meet with the tenant Fire Wardens as needed to discuss whether all systems and plans functioned properly and determine the overall effectiveness of the drill.