Posted on 12/02/2015 6:14:05 AM PST by PghBaldy
12/02/2015, 8:57 a.m.
Unconfirmed report of armed person near ROTC Building / Venable Hall
ALERT CAROLINA TIMELY WARNING: Unconfirmed report of armed person near ROTC Building / Venable Hall
UNC Chapel Hill Police are investigating the report of an armed individual near the campus NROTC Building and Venable Hall. The report is unconfirmed at this time, but the campus is asked to shelter in place.
Continue to monitor Alert Carolina website (alertcarolina.unc.edu) for any updates into this incident. UNC Police are asking anyone with information to call the UNC Police Department at 9-1-1 or contact the Chapel Hill-Carrboro-UNC Crime Stoppers at (919) 942-7515.
For a list of safety tips, see the following link through the Alert Carolina page:
http://www.alertcarolina.unc.edu/go/doc/1395/1762999/
12/02/2015, 8:53 a.m.
Emergency: The University has activated the sirens. Police report an ARMED AND DANGEROUS PERSON ON OR NEAR CAMPUS.
Go inside immediately. Close windows and doors. Stay until further notice. Follow directions from emergency responders or University officials.
The sirens are activated when there is a significant emergency or immediate health or safety threat to the campus community. When the sirens sound, stop classroom and campus activities; all UNC operations are temporarily suspended. Remain inside your classroom or a safe place in your building unless police or University personnel instruct you to take a specific action, such as to evacuate a building, stay out of a certain part of campus, or go to your residence hall and stay there.
The Alert Carolina website, alertcarolina.unc.edu, will be updated as soon as more information is available. It can take hours to resolve an emergency situation; updates may not be immediate.
You can let your family know you are okay in the event of an emergency affecting the Carolina campus while keeping cell phone lines open for emergency calls by using the American Red Cross Safe and Well list. The Safe and Well list is especially helpful in communicating with family members who are outside the emergency area. Go to www.redcross.org/safeandwell and follow the registration instructions.
If you see suspicious activity, call 911. But do not call 911 or the Department of Public Safety just to ask for information about the current incident. Police phone lines need to remain open for emergency communications.
When the threat is over, the sirens will sound again with a different tone to announce along with the voice message: "All clear. Resume normal activities." Click here for an audio sample of the siren emergency tone. Click here to hear "all clear."
When the sirens are activated - and when there is an "all clear" -- the University also sends a text message to the cell phone numbers registered by students, faculty and staff in the online campus directory. The University also communicates about an emergency using sources including: campus-wide email and voice mail (for campus land lines), the Adverse Weather and Emergency Phone Line, 843-1234, for recorded information, and the University Access Channel (Chapel Hill Time Warner Cable Channel 4) along with other campus television channels. Connect with Carolina facebook logo twitter logo
Close down the Eastern Seaboard!
http://wtvr.com/2015/12/02/unc-chapel-hill-locked-down/
Zachary Gorelick @ZacharyGorelick
At least a dozen police cars responding, with guns drawn, at the #UNC ROTC Armory. Ambulance arriving. #BREAKING
8:36 AM - 2 Dec 2015
The college kiddies across America are cowering and sobbing in their “safe spaces” this morning. Life is hard when you’re afraid of everything that moves and everything that doesn’t move.
A gun
At the ROTC building.
Hell, we had an indoor range at our ROTC building at App State.
>>Close down the Eastern Seaboard!
Why just the east? Are you saying that only #EasternLivesMatter? Lock down the country! For the chilluns.
Take shelter! Go limp! Surrender and maybe they will let you live!
sign and quickly left.
All Clear.
Yeah, that's the ticket.
We had one at my JROTC in a Chicago public high school. Chicago Circle Campus of U of I had a rifle range in the Student Union. How times have changed.......
UPDATED: December 2, 2015 9:22:25 AM EST
Emergency: UNC issues ‘All Clear’
12__/_2_/_2015_, _9:20_ a.m.
Emergency: UNC issues ‘All Clear’
UNC has issued the instruction “All clear. Resume normal activities” to the campus community.
The all clear signal means the threat to the campus is over.
When the sirens are activated – and when there is an “all clear” – the University also sends a text message to the cell phone numbers registered by students, faculty and staff in the online campus directory. The University also communicates about an emergency using sources including: campus-wide email and voice mail (for campus land lines), the Adverse Weather and Emergency Phone Line, 843-1234, for recorded information, and the University Access Channel (Chapel Hill Time Warner Cable Channel 4) along with other campus television channels.
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It does seem like we are going to keep having these false alarms... It makes this country look foolish. I half-assumed this was a false alarm when I posted, but wanted to wait just in case.
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