A Fire Drill and a Safe Evacuation of one of the Faculty of Engineering's Buildings (Programs Building) at Mansoura University
The Faculty of Engineering at Mansoura university in cooperation with the Civil Protection in Dakahlia performed a fire drill to evacuate one of the faculty's building (programs building). The aim of the faculty is to train the teaching staff, employees and students on the right techniques to deal with the evacuation in emergency cases and apply it practically.
The fire drill was performed under the patronage of Prof. Ashraf Abdel-Basset, the President of Mansoura University and Prof. Mahmoud Mohamed Elmeligy, the Vice-President of the University for Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs, Prof. Mohamed Abdel-Azeem, the dean of the faculty of Engineering, and the General/Ahmed Almahdy, the manager of Civil Protection Administration in Dakahlia.
The fire drill process was supervised by prof.Sahar Sedky, the Vice-Dean of the faculty for Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs and performed by the colonel/ Ahmed Awad, the head of extinguishing the fire, Dr.Galal Alboghdady, the manager of Crises and Disasters Unit, and Dr.Waleed Adel, the coordinator of Crises and Disasters Unit. The fire drill procedure was started by the evacuation of the building, with the assistance of the trained employees on the procedures of the occupational safety and firefighting.
The building was evacuated according to the plan with following the guidelines to reach the safe zone. The emergency team from firefighting units, rapid rescue units and ambulance ones were called for performing the rescue process of the employees and the trapped students in upper floors by using the rescue tools and electric ladders of the civil protection to face any upcoming emergency. Further, the faculty performed the process to raise the consciousness of the employees and how to face the situation quietly, avoid the jostling and save souls as well the educational institutions according to the well-prepared evacuation process by the faculty. The process was performed by a team from Civil Protection Administration in Dakahlia and started by putting out the fire via a phone call by the administration of the faculty to seek help extinguish the fire, followed by the firefighting procedures though two firefighting cars and the process was fulfilled successfully. Besides, an ambulance simulation was done by offering the urgent medical care for one of the students at the faculty who was supposed to be suffocated from fumes.
