As part of ongoing efforts to enhance campus safety, the University will conduct an emergency drill on Manning Drive on Monday (Aug. 11) between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. Our Department of Public Safety is coordinating the exercise, which will include local law enforcement and response agencies.
The drill will focus on how the University works with local emergency responders if there is an actual emergency on campus, particularly if the situation occurs in a high-traffic centrally located area and involves road closures and detours.
Actors will portray campus community members and victims to simulate a response to an actual emergency on campus. Emergency vehicles and personnel will be visible along Manning Drive, especially near the intersection with Ridge Road. Uniformed responders will react as they would in an actual emergency.
The N.C. Department of Transportation has approved the closure of a portion of Manning Drive (except to emergency vehicles), between the intersection of Manning Drive and Ridge Road and the intersection of Manning Drive and Skipper Bowles Drive, while UNC officials conduct the emergency drill. Motorists are encouraged to use the detour route (see below) along Bowles Drive. Chapel Hill Transit service (FCX, HU and S routes) will be detoured along Bowles Drive. The U route will use Bowles Drive (from Ridge Road), right on Tar Heel Boulevard to Family Medicine, left on Bowles Drive to regular route. Additionally, the bus stops on Manning Drive at Ehringhaus Residence Hall and Horton/Hinton James Residence Halls will be closed during the emergency drill. Customers may board detoured buses at the bus stop on Manning Drive at Public Safety.
The map below shows detours and the areas affected by the drill.
Be sure to check alertcarolina.unc.edu for the latest information about this drill and other important information about campus safety.
Published August 4, 2014.