Evacuation Planning Guide for Stadiums

Supporting Actions
• Notify area hospitals before hand when large events occur at the stadium.
• Identify mutual aid agreements in place that may assist with the medical needs
during an evacuation.
• Identify how and where to obtain additional medical resources, if needed.
• Utilize staging areas of transport of the sick, and injured.
• Include routes or corridors for transporting the sick or injured to local medical
facilities.
• Employ the Mass Casualty Plan for evacuating the sick and injuried.
3.1.13 Signage and Lighting
The following questions for Consideration and Supporting Actions statements are useful
in addressing the stadium’s Emergency Plan guidance and procedures for address
emergency signage and lighting that may be used during an evacuation.
Considerations
• What signs are needed to ensure stadium spectators and participants know the
best routes for evacuation from their particular location within the stadium?
• What are the proper size and wording of the signs; where should they be located;
who is in charge of setting them up?
• What types of emergency lighting will be used in case of an evacuation? Where
will it be used? Who is in charge of employing the lighting?
Supporting Actions
• Direct, post, and activate pre-positioned signage relating to emergency ingress
and egress routes, mass-care staging areas, shelters, etc.
• Activate emergency lighting, as appropriate, including flood lighting, lights
powered by generators, and emergency stadium lighting to highlight paths away
from the stadium.
• Ensure security and other stadium personnel carry flashlights for nighttime
operations.
• Include information on how emergency lighting should be set up.
• Provide evacuation training to stadium personnel when utilizing emergency
lighting.
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