Evacuation Planning Guide for Stadiums

3.1.9 Activation, Staging, and Mobilization
The stadium’s Emergency Plan should contain guidance and procedures for the activation
and mobilzation of staging areas associated with an evacuation. Information should be
provided in the Emergency Plan on the designated location(s), personnel, equipment (i.e.,
decontamination, air monitoring), and other resources needed for activating, operating
and demobilizing a staging area.
3.1.10 Mass Care and Family Assistance
The stadium’s Emergency Plan should contain guidance and procedures for Mass
Care/Family Assistance (a scalable Emergency Support Function 6) 2 once the stadium
spectators and participants have been evacuated to staging area(s). Health and medical
support for the evacuation of casualties should encompass the organic medical response
assets at the stadium, in addition to incorporating the local Emergency Management
Services (EMS) authories’ Mass Causualty Plan into the Emergency Plan.
3.1.11 Special Needs Population
The stadium’s Emergency Plan should contain guidance and procedures to address the
special needs population. Refer to the Americans with Disabilities Act, the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, and the Communications Act of 1934, as
amended, to determine the accomodations that must be provided for spectators and
participants with special needs. The following questions for Consideration and
Supporting Actions statements are useful in addressing the special needs population.
Considerations
• How are the evacuation needs of spectators and participants with special needs
identified and addressed? How is the special needs population determined at each
event at the stadium?
• What equipment and signage is present at the stadium to address the evacuation
needs of spectators and participants with special needs?
• Are the event staff trained to assist spectators and participants with special needs
in the event of an evacuation?
• Who will be responsible for evacuating individuals with special needs?
• Have “areas of rescue” been established and contain evacuation and
communication equipment?
2 Federal Emergency Management Agency, ESF Annexes Introduction, January 2008:
Emergency Support Function (ESF) #6.
“Mass Care, Emergency Assistance, Housing, and Human Services coordinates the delivery of
Federal mass care, emergency assistance, housing, and human services when local, tribal, and State
response and recovery needs exceed their capabilities.”
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