Fire and Evacuation

How to React a Fire

Please remember RACE during fire:

Rescue -- Rescue people in immediate danger;

Alert -- Pull fire alarm, dial emergency phone number;

Contain -- Close all doors and windows;

Evacuate/Extinguish -- Evacuate building, extinguish small fire.

What is A Fire Alarm

It is the policy of NYU Shanghai when smoke or fire is discovered, fire alarm must be sounded. The fire alarm consists of the sounding of rounds of a coded signal and broadcast. There is no code to indicate if an alarm signifies a drill or an actual fire emergency.

How to Report a Fire

If you discover or suspect a fire:

Press the nearest fire alarm button

Call Public Safety at 021-2059-5500

Call 119

How to Evacuate

Upon hearing the alarm, everyone must exit buildings through the nearest exit quickly and calmly from the stairway.

Follow the Exit Signage and Evacuation Chart posted in every room and corridor.

How Fire Starts

Fire is a chemical reaction involving rapid oxidation or burning of a fuel, which needs four elements.

Take any one of these factors away, and fire cannot occur or will be extinguished if already burning.

Usually, HEAT is prohibited for fire safety. Smoking or burning is not allowed anywhere in the building including washroom or staircase.

How to Use Fire Extinguisher

A portable fire extinguisher should ONLY be used in the early stages of a fire and only when it is safe to do so. Always fight a fire with your back to your escape route. If necessary, do not hesitate to use the extinguisher to clear an escape path.

IMPORTANT: Choose the correct class of extinguisher for the fire situation. Never fight a fire alone.

Run. Hide. Fight.

If you ever find yourself in a dangerous situation with an armed attacker, experts recommend taking the following action:

  1. Run: Get out and get away as quietly and quickly as possible, leaving your belongings behind.
  2. Hide: If you can't flee, lock or barricade the doors, silence your cell phone, and hide.
  3. Fight: If all else fails, and only as a last resort, attack the shooter with whatever makeshift weapons you can find (scissors, portable fire extinguishers, chairs, etc.) to disarm and disable.

The Department of Homeland Security and the City of Houston have developed a "Run-Hide-Fight" video. This is not an NYU video; but it provides effective and easily remembered dramatization of these principles.

If you would like to learn more about what to do in the event of other emergency situations, visit nyu.edu/besafe.

Be proactive, your safety is in your hands.