District-Wide Safe Schools and Crisis Plan - Blytheville Public Schools

The Principal, as Incident Commander, will not depart from his or her campus
until a delegated transfer of authority has taken place with an emergency
response agency. Furthermore, the Principal will not depart from the campus
until all students and staff have been evacuated and accounted for.
Staff Response
The first priority is to facilitate a safe evacuation for all students that may
come under your supervision. A list of those students’ names should be
checked twice prior to releasing the list to the designated CRT member.
Provide the names of any student that normally would fall under your
supervision during the time of evacuation and his or her whereabouts, if known.
Physically accompany supervised students to the bus loading area once
you have provided the attendance list of student names to the designated CRT
member.
Clearly follow the directives given to you by the Principal or Incident
Commander. If assigned a bus to accompany students, coordinate with your
staff partner to take a written roll of student riders. Upon arrival provide the
list to the check-in staff and support students as needed.
Central Office
Once a decision is reached to activate the campus evacuation and
family reunification process the system-wide Incident Commander will
notify the Transportation Department to initiate the planned provision of
vehicles and drivers.
An initial briefing will be conducted by the Incident Commander in the Executive
Conference Room. The system’s objectives relative to the incident will
be presented. Participants will include representative roles at both levels of
the ICS Command and General Administrative support structures.
Additional representatives of designated branches, as deemed appropriate by
the Incident Commander, will be called to attend the briefing as well.
The Incident Commander and designated Command Officers, based on
the incident specifics, will have discretion to proceed to the incident site in
lieu of the Family Reunification Center. Such a decision will require the
next leveled staff person to assume the Command roll at the center. The
General Administrative positions will proceed directly to the center which
will represent the Incident Command Post.
Although not all inclusive, representative branches activated at the Family
Reunification Center would include student accountability, reunification, supplies,
and communication.
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