FEMA's school emergency plan is a multistep program that focuses on several aspects of emergency response, including planning,
practicing evacuation drills, and setting up ways to handle both on - site and off - site communications.
We encourage schools to review and develop more comprehensive policies that include traditional earthquake and fire
drills and
practices, school
evacuation plans, lock down procedures, a communications plan for parents, as well as internal schoolwide alarms or bell systems.