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For those of you who don't remember or personally keep track of me (SHAME ON YOU!), you may not know that I happen to work at the power plant in one of the more prestigious universities in northern Indiana. Yesterday, we had an incident where a police pursuit ended less than 200 yards from where I was working.
The man in the incident was released from jail a few weeks ago and already had a warrant against him for violating a protection order. Police attempted to serve the warrant and it ended up in a high speed chase. Officers ended the chase and let him get away. They picked up his trail later on, and attempted to arrest him at his home. He then led them on a foot chase, where he barged into a lady's home and stole her SUV. Crashing through the garage door he then led police on a high speed chase down the north end of Notre Dame campus where he rolled the SUV over completely and continued speeding away. He ditched the vehicle at the Hesberg library and fled on foot pursued by a local detective. He also unsuccessfully attempted to carjack a delivery truck. He ended up jumping into one of the lakes near the power plant where he claimed to have a gun. After about 30 minutes, he was coaxed out of the water. No gun was found.
After the event at the library, a campus alert was partially carried out. The warning alarm sounded, but no announcement was immediately made. As far as I can tell, no announcement came out until after the suspect jumped into the lake. That announcement was made over campus loud speakers by I don't know who. The supervisors here are unsure as well. Another announcement was made when the suspect was taken into custody to continue lockdown.
None of the lockdown announcements were heard in the power plant. The first actual notification that an incident was occurring, is when the wife of one of the workers here called our control room after hearing of the incident on the news.
The university has an emergency alert system that has loudspeakers, internal phone alerts, and mass text messaging, as well as mass robocall. The alert system was only partially used and the procedure was not properly carried out. Most in the power plant were not aware until after the suspect was in custody.
The first awareness that I had of anything going on was somebody on the radio jokingly referring to setting Condition Zebra (Navy term for full ship lockdown). As a member of the safety team here, I am deeply concerned that were weren't notified. Concerns are being brought up the chain of command here.
For those of you who don't remember or personally keep track of me (SHAME ON YOU!), you may not know that I happen to work at the power plant in one of the more prestigious universities in northern Indiana. Yesterday, we had an incident where a police pursuit ended less than 200 yards from where I was working.
The man in the incident was released from jail a few weeks ago and already had a warrant against him for violating a protection order. Police attempted to serve the warrant and it ended up in a high speed chase. Officers ended the chase and let him get away. They picked up his trail later on, and attempted to arrest him at his home. He then led them on a foot chase, where he barged into a lady's home and stole her SUV. Crashing through the garage door he then led police on a high speed chase down the north end of Notre Dame campus where he rolled the SUV over completely and continued speeding away. He ditched the vehicle at the Hesberg library and fled on foot pursued by a local detective. He also unsuccessfully attempted to carjack a delivery truck. He ended up jumping into one of the lakes near the power plant where he claimed to have a gun. After about 30 minutes, he was coaxed out of the water. No gun was found.
After the event at the library, a campus alert was partially carried out. The warning alarm sounded, but no announcement was immediately made. As far as I can tell, no announcement came out until after the suspect jumped into the lake. That announcement was made over campus loud speakers by I don't know who. The supervisors here are unsure as well. Another announcement was made when the suspect was taken into custody to continue lockdown.
None of the lockdown announcements were heard in the power plant. The first actual notification that an incident was occurring, is when the wife of one of the workers here called our control room after hearing of the incident on the news.
The university has an emergency alert system that has loudspeakers, internal phone alerts, and mass text messaging, as well as mass robocall. The alert system was only partially used and the procedure was not properly carried out. Most in the power plant were not aware until after the suspect was in custody.
The first awareness that I had of anything going on was somebody on the radio jokingly referring to setting Condition Zebra (Navy term for full ship lockdown). As a member of the safety team here, I am deeply concerned that were weren't notified. Concerns are being brought up the chain of command here.
