Project Safe
EVacuation and ACcommodation of People with Disabilities
In an emergency, people must quickly evacuate buildings, vehicles, or outdoor areas. History has shown that planning for emergency evacuation dramatically increases the chance for successful evacuation.
The problem is that many individuals, business owners, and facilities managers do not have emergency evacuation plans. For people with disabilities, this failure to plan ahead and provide for accommodations can mean the difference between surviving and perishing in an emergency.
http://evac.icdi.wvu.edu
304-293-7186 (V/TTY)
Housed at the International Center for Disability Information at West Virginia University.
Project Safe EV-AC is produced under U.S. Department of Education Grant Number H133G040318. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the positions or policies of the Department of Education. No official endorsement by the U.S. Department of Education of any product, commodity, service or enterprise mentioned in this Web site is intended or should be inferred. This is a National Institute on Disability Rehabilitation and Research grant.