Testing Complete

Testing of the Ferrum College Emergency Alert System is now complete. Thank you for your cooperation.

TEST

This is a TEST of the Ferrum College Emergency Alert System

Emergency Alert System TEST Today

A test of the Ferrum College Emergency Alert System will be conducted today

Emergency Alert System TEST September 10th, 2009

Ferrum College will be conducting a test of its emergency alert system on Thursday, September 10th. The drill will include a test of several campus emergency components including the college’s mass notification system, ferrume2campus, and the campuswide siren system.

The college’s siren system is stationed on the north side of campus and will sound for exactly 1 minute. In the event of an actual emergency situation that day, the campus and surrounding community would hear the siren for three minutes or longer.
The sirens will be coupled with a test of the College’s mass notification messaging system, which was implemented in April of 2007. The system, called ferrume2campus, enables Ferrum to send important campus information to students, staff, parents, and faculty wherever they are. In addition to cell phones, ferrume2campus enables the college to send messages to users via web pages, RSS, PDA, e-mail, text pager, google, AOL, or My Yahoo page.

In addition to the campus siren and mass notification system, the college plans to also send test messages via campus e-mail, the campus website, www.ferrum.edu, and its phone information line, 540-365-5555.

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Test of Emergency Alert System

ATTENTION: Students, Staff & Faculty

This is a TEST of the Ferrum College Emergency Alert System.  The campus siren will sound for approximately one minute.  Should the siren sound longer than one minute, it should be considered a real emergency and you should follow information as it is provided to you.  

If this were a real emergency, more information would be found here at this page and mirrored on the official Ferrum Emergency site. The purpose of this blog is to stand in for our on-campus servers in the event that they are not functioning or disabled due to a power outage. If there is an emergency or alert on campus and you cannot connect to the Ferrum homepage or other sites under the Ferrum domain, please check the Ferrum Emergency Blog for more information. 

Take this opportunity to bookmark the Emergency Blog so you can return to it quickly in the event of an emergency.

Welcome to the Ferrum Emergency News Blog

Welcome students, faculty, staff, parents, and other members of the Ferrum community.  The purpose of this blog is to stand in for our on-campus servers in the event that they are not functioning or disabled due to a power outage.

If there is an emergency or alert on campus and you cannot connect to http://www.ferrum.edu, please check this site for more information.  Additionally, during an emergency you will be notified of a server outage via e2campus.

This blog will be used for emergency announcements only.