EVACUATE ONLY IF IT IS SAFE TO DO SO

• • Have an escape route and plan in mind for every room you occupy
  • Leave your belongings behind
  • Keep your hands visible

HIDE OUT

• • Hide in an area out of the active shooter’s view
  • Block entry to your hiding place, lock or barricade the doors, and turn out the lights

TAKE ACTION

• • Only as a last resort and only when your life is in imminent danger
  • Attempt to incapacitate the active shooter
  • Act with physical aggression and throw items at the active shooter

• • Remain calm
  • Stay where you are until officers give you instructions
  • Immediately raise hands and spread fingers
  • Keep hands visible at all times
  • Avoid making quick movements toward officers
  • Avoid pointing, screaming, and/or yelling
  • Do not stop to ask officers for help or directions when evacuating; just proceed in the direction that officers direct you

• • Location of the active shooter
  • Number of shooters, if more than one
  • Physical description of shooter/s
  • Numbers and type of weapons held by the shooter/s
  • Number of potential victims at the location

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