University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

Floor Captains

• Role of Floor Captains during a Fire
• Role of Floor Captains during a Tornado
• Public Address Systems in Campus Buildings
• Training on Use of Building Public Address Systems for Building Chairs
• Powerpoint Presentation to UWM Building Chairs on Fire Safety

Should you have any questions concerning Floor Captain responsibilities, please contact University Safety and Assurances.

Building	Area	Floor Captains	Pre- and Post-Drill Meeting Location
Alumni House	1st Floor 2nd Floor 3rd Floor	Michael Westendorf   Bryce Lord	Main Entrance (West side of building)
Art Building	Basement	Mary McCoy	Theatre Corridor at Alarm Panel (Outside T 120)
	1st Floor
	2nd Floor
	3rd Floor	LeRoy Stoner
	4th Floor	Kristy Volbrecht
Arts Center Lecture Hall		--	Theatre Corridor at Alarm Panel (Outside T 120)
Architecture and Urban Planning	Basement	Dennis Manley	North entrance off Hartford Avenue
	1st Floor	Dennis Manley
	2nd Floor	Susan McDonald
	3rd Floor	Steve Heidt
	4th Floor
Bolton Hall	Ground Floor		Southeast Entrance
	1st Floor	Luis Saavedra, Kyla Moore, and Ramona Sledge
	2nd Floor	Dan Reams, Ann Nehring
Cambridge Commons		Kelly Haag Rich Givens
Chapman Hall	1st Floor mezzaine and 1st Floor	Bryan White Tammy Johnson	North Entrance
	2nd Floor	Sue Podgorski
	2nd Floor mezzaine, 3rd Floor and 4th Floor	Cary Kazmierski
Chemistry Building	Basement	Neal Korfhage	Main (Center) Entrance
	1st Floor	Kevin Blackburn
	2nd Floor (research side)	Wilfred Tysoe
	2nd Floor (teaching side)	Michelle Koranda
	3rd Floor (teaching side)	Derrick Joers
	3rd Floor (research side)	Steve Kopitzke
	4th Floor (teaching side)	Vince Maberry
	4th Floor (research side)	Sue Krezoski
	5th Floor	Natalia Stein
	6th Floor	Mohammad Mojibul Haque
	7th Floor	Mike Poe
	8th Floor	Prem Nandhikonda
Continuing Education Plankinton Building (CEPB)	6th Floor	Maribeth Sacho -Zone 1 Tim Peterson -Zone 2 Joe Neumann -Zone 3 Shari (Sharon) Vinluan-Zone 4 Kimberly Lacking-Quinn - Zone 5 Kim Beck -Zone 6 Rick Flowers -Zone 7 Luke Olson -Zone 8
	7th Floor	Dennis Danahey  Christopher Baxter
Cozzens Center		Chris Gregory	Main Entrance
Cunningham Hall	Sub-Basement	David Rasmussen	Ground Floor Main Entrance (Hartford Avenue)
	Basement
	Ground Floor	Cathy Trimborn
	1st Floor	Michael Walk and Jenna Welch (alt)
	2nd Floor	Ed Melchior
	3rd Floor	Mandy Sheriff
	4th Floor	Bob Marine
	5th Floor	Gary Jechorek
	6th Floor
	7th Floor	Debbie Jankowski
Curtin Hall	Basement	Larry Linvik	1st Floor North Entrance
	1st Floor	Joshua Worsham
	2nd Floor
	3rd Floor	Deshanna Taylor
	4th Floor	Kathy Doering-Kilkenny
	5th Floor	Brooke Barker
	6th Floor	Chris Carroll, Heidi Vrankin Matera
	7th Floor
	8th Floor	Michael Jacques
	9th Floor	John Blum
East Lake Towers	Suite 400	Mike Kluesner	Office
Enderis Hall	Basement	Bradley DePons	Ground Floor Main Entrance (Hartford Avenue)
	1st Floor	Debra Maglio and Erica Yewlett (alt)
	2nd Floor	Alan Rank and Linda Randolph (alt)
	3rd Floor	Maggie Kaczmarek
	4th Floor	Nora Miller and Pam Akers (alt)
	5th Floor	Sara Heiser, Rita Delzer (alt), and Kyle Stevens (alt)
	6th Floor	Heather Ford and Gilbert Johnson (alt)
	7th Floor	Kerry Korinek, Dario Elia (computer lab), CC Adeyemo (computer lab alt)
	8th Floor	Cheri Chapman (alt), Kathryn Morgan (clinics),
	9th Floor	Sara Riordan, Patty Thomas (alt)
	10th Floor	Colleen Giaimo, Tanya Depp (alt), and Dario Elia (computer lab), CC Adeyemo (computer lab alt)
	11th Floor	Mary Heller and Eric Gresnick (alt)
Engelmann Hall	Basement	Mike Reck	1st Floor Northeast Hallway near Lecture Hall
	1st Floor	Barb Musgrave and Donna Lumsden
	2nd Floor	Melissa Spadanuda
Engineering and Mathematical Sciences	East Basement	Beth Anderson	Main Entrance South
	West Basement
	1st Floor	Ganhua Lu Grind Employees (Annette Waddington- contact)
	2nd Floor	David McClanahan (West Side) Dusko Josifovski (East Side)
	3rd floor	Michelle M. Schoenecker
	4th floor	Bill Mandella
	5th Floor	Jean Stapleton
	7th Floor	Kehan Yu
	8th Floor	Kyle Jacobson
	9th Floor	John Reisel
	10th Floor
	11th Floor
	12th Floor	Steven Hardcastle
Garland	Basement	Pat Reilly	Center Entrance (off of Hartford Avenue)
	1st Floor	Kim Omachinski
	2nd Floor	Kim Garman
	3rd Floor	Nicole Johnson
	4th Floor	Nicole Ferrara
Golda Meir Library	Lower Level West	Kathy Bowes and Beth Traylor	West Wing -- Main Circulation Desk
	Lower Level East
	1st Floor West	Ahmed Kraima, Linda Kopecky, Guilia Caspari, Kim Silbersack, Aaron Dobbs, Molly Mathias, Steve Keltner and Leigh Dorsey
	1st Floor East	Sharon McCarragher, Ann Hanlon and Ling Meng
	2nd Floor West	Ellen Engseth, Andy Ritter, Bradley Houston,Karen Jander, and Christina Despears
	2nd Floor East	Rebecca Littman
	3rd Floor West
	3rd Floor East (AGSL)	Jovanka Ristic and Angie Cope
	4th Floor	Max Yela
Greene Hall	Ground Floor		West Entrance
Green Museum		Karen Dredge
Hefter Center		Tom Bjornstad, Ron Kotecki	West Entrance
Honors House	1st Floor	Robin Weigert and Shannon M. Byrne Irwin
Holton Hall	1st Floor	Cindy Piercy and Deona Ellison	Main (East) Entrance
	2nd Floor	Lisa Switalski
	3rd Floor	Anita Cathey
Johnston	Ground Floor	Jeff Loomis and Brenda Smith(Holton)	West Entrance
	1st Floor	Michelle Fetherston
	2nd Floor	Christian Vettrus
	3rd Floor	Christian Vettrus
Kenilworth Square Apartments		Kelly Haag and Jesse Singleton
Kenilworth Square East		Randy Holper, Rene Izquierdo, and John Stropes	Main Entrance off Kenilworth Avenue
Klotsche Center	1st Floor Common Areas	Heath Powell and Sara Schillinger	Main desk in Pavilion (off Downer Avenue)
	1st Floor Athletics Suite	Kathy Litzau and Dave Clark
	2nd Floor Sports Medicine Suite	Renee Reckelberg
	2nd Floor Common Areas	Jim Baker
	3rd Floor Health Sciences Suite	Wendy Huddleston, Karen Abulughod (alt.)
	3rd Floor Common Areas	Steven Mohar
Kunkle Center	1st Floor	Kathe Lerario	1st Floor Reception Desk
	Lower Level	Cheri Zylka
Lapham Hall	Basement	Jenny Nemke, Heather Owen	Northeast Entrance
	1st Floor	Kim Quartemont
	2nd Floor	Kim Axtman
	3rd Floor
	4th Floor	Ching Liu Wu
	5th Floor (North)
	5th Floor (South)
Lubar Hall	1st Floor	Tad Gospodarek and Jason Kantrowitz	Main (Center) Entrance (off Maryland Avenue)
	2nd Floor	Brian Hinshaw and Jeff Neuhauser
	3rd Floor	Jamie Daily and Rose Czaja
	4th Floor	Pam Barnes and Joslyn Schiedt
Mellencamp Hall	Basement	Janice Anderson	1st Floor East Entrance
	1st Floor	Ada Buchanan Brown
	2nd Floor	Susan Noss
Merrill	1st Floor	Anne Lamb, Jeff Loomis (Ground Floor)	Center Entrance to Merrill Hall
	2nd and 3rd Floor
Mitchell	Basement	Greg Walz-Chojnacki	Center Entrance on Downer Avenue
	1st Floor	Jon Broskowski, Pauline Jascur and Travis Jones
	2nd Floor	Pat Hayes and Dave Harris
	3rd Floor	Bonnie Murphy
Music Building	1st Floor	Barbra Garncarz	Theatre Corridor at Alarm Panel (Outside T 120)
		Cheryl Walsh
Norris Health Center		Al Gomez, Paul Dupont, Kari Brickler and Beth Becker	Main Entrance
Northwest Quad	1st Floor	Jonathan Hanes	1st Floor, by Red Elevators
	2nd Floor	Tom Danner
	3rd Floor	Sharon Lake
	4th Floor	Brenda Cullin, Susan Davies
	5th Floor	Dawn Murphy
	6th Floor	Donna Genzmer, Mark Schwartz
	7th Floor	Deb Ritchie-Kolberg, Maria Carrizales
Pavilion	1st Floor Athletics Suite		Main Entrance on Downer
	1st Floor Common Areas	Heath Powell and Sara Schillinger
	2nd Floor Common Areas	Sara Schillinger
	2nd Floor Sports Medicine Suite	Renee Manofsky
	3rd Floor Health Sciences Suite	Valerie Hernandez, Karen Abulughod (Alt.)
	3rd Floor Common Areas	Steven Mohar
Pearse	Basement	Pat Reilly	Center Entrance (off of Hartford Avenue)
	1st Floor	Sue Conway
	2nd Floor	Kim Garman
	3rd Floor	Nicole Johnson
Physics	Basement	Jay Dobberke	Kenwood Avenue Entrance
	Planetarium	Mark Rhodes
	1st Floor	Jerry Becker
	2nd Floor	Greg Baran
	3rd Floor	Kate Valerius
	4th Floor	Steve Kennedy
Power Plant	Operating Floor and Upper Levels	On Duty In-Charge Operator	Main Entrance (West off Parking Lot)
	Lower Levels	On Duty Senior Operator
RiverView		Kelly Haag Mike Emanuel
Sabin Hall	Ground Floor	John Richards	East Center Entrance
	1st Floor	Susan L. Armour Seidman
	2nd Floor	Patricia Richards
	3rd Floor	Tamara Edmond
	4th Floor
Sandburg Facility		Kelly Haag and Arcetta Knautz	Main Floor Service Desk Area
Theatre Building		Kristy Volbrecht	Theatre Corridor at Alarm Panel (Outside T 120)
Union		Maintenance Workers serve as Floor Captains for the Union	Union (South Entrance) Main Entry -- Ground Floor South
University Services & Research Building	1st Floor (south side)	Linda Bettler	N.E. Entrance of Building
	1st Floor (north side)	Randy Spaeth
	1st Floor	Warren Krutzik
	2nd Floor (north side)	Jeff Jacobs
	2nd Floor (Engineering area)	Bill Patterson
	2nd Floor (south side)	Mike Pettitt
Vogel	1st Floor	Kim Huettl	Main Entry -- Downer Avenue Side
	2nd Floor	Jenny Powell
	Basement	Jenell Cocroft
WATER Institute		Chris Ney, Greg Barske, Randy Metzger, Rob Paddock and Jack Orchard	Guard Office
WUWM		Amy Kiley, Ann Piatt, Marge Pitrof, Michelle Nobbe, Mitch Teich, Cheryl Locher and Laurie Loomis
Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts		1st Floor: 2nd Floor: Christine Barclay	Main Entrance off Kenwood Boulevard
Zilber School of Public Health Building	1st Floor 2nd Floor 3rd Floor 4th Floor 5th Floor	Mike Benter, Lori Hoffman (Backup) Lori Hoffman Trina Salm Ward, Brian Thayer (Backup) Tanika Reesnes

Floor Captain Responsibilities During a Fire:

The position of Floor Captain is that of a volunteer, providing aid to other building occupants, visitors and students in the event of an emergency. Floor captains are responsible for knowing all exit locations from occupied areas of their building. Floor captains are NOT, however, expected to risk their personal safety by delaying their own evacuation from a building in order to perform rescue or structural firefighting activities for which they are neither properly trained, nor equipped.

To help achieve safe, orderly evacuations and provide the best possible aid to others, Floor Captains are to implement these steps whenever a fire alarm begins to sound:

1. At the sound of the evacuation alarm, proceed to an exit and verify it is usable, i.e. free of smoke and obstructions. (For information on the evacuation routes for your building, please review the Emergency Evacuation Maps for your building.)
2. Calmly and clearly announce that the building must be evacuated and direct people to leave via this exit in a calm and orderly fashion.
3. Caution occupants against the use of elevators.
4. With evacuation underway, quickly check their assigned Floor area to make certain that no one is left behind.
5. As soon as their assigned area has been checked, complete their own evacuation of the building.
6. If the recommended evacuation route should become blocked, carefully reroute all evacuees to another available exit.
7. Encourage people to move at least 100 feet away from the building and away from the building entrances.*
8. Re-entry into the building is not permitted unless authorized by Fire Department personnel.

REMEMBER: At all times, your personal safety is of paramount importance. At no time should any of these activities be undertaken if your personal safety will be at risk.

*The Department of University Safety and Assurances is in the process of assessing the locations that has been designated as "Areas of Assembly" for campus buildings. These designated assembly areas are located in an open area away from the building and out of the way of responding emergency personnel vehicles, fire lanes, fire hydrants and equipment staging areas. There may be more than one assembly area designated depending on the size of the building, type of evacuation event and the location of the exits. These proposed locations will be evaluated to determine their suitability.

Once these "Areas of Assembly" have been evaluated and final locations selected, information on the locations will be shared with the building occupants. Floor captains should become familiar with the designated "Areas of Assembly" for their building and will assist occupants in moving to the assembly area(s) during an actual evacuation.

Floor Captain's Role During Fire Drill: All Floor Captains will be asked to assemble at the meeting location 5 minutes prior to the scheduled start of the drill for final instructions. Once you have received your final instructions, you will report to your assigned Floor to observe the evacuation. Your role during the drill will be: Monitor corridors on assigned floor to ensure personnel are moving toward exits. Check restrooms on assigned floor to ensure they have been evacuated. Concentrate on public areas. Office managers, classroom lecturers, and laboratory or workshop heads should be responsible for advising occupants in their areas to evacuate. Make sure fire doors on enclosed stairways and exits are closed and not blocked open. Assist and/or direct occupants with limited mobility to the stairwell, or down stairs if able to negotiate stairway. Make sure that the people that have evacuated the building move a safe distance (at least 100 feet) away from the exit. Prevent re-entry into the building until the fire drill coordinator announces the "All-Clear" signal. Once the "All-Clear" signal has been given, return to the assigned meeting location and report presence of anyone still on your Floor. Fill out the Fire Drill Response Form for your building and turn it in to the fire drill coordinator.

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Floor Captain Responsibilities During a Tornado (or other "Shelter-in-Place") Emergency

Floor captains may be called upon to serve as liaisons within their building to receive critical information (phone call, email or other means) from appropriate UWM offices and to relay the information to building occupants (e.g. tornado; chemical release). Your role will be to make a sweep of the floor to which you are assigned to ensure that everyone is responding appropriately. This may include directing individuals to evacuate to a shelter or finding aid for someone having difficulty moving to a shelter, assuming such action can be done safely. Not everyone will be familiar with shelter locations so you may need to direct people to them.

The floor captain is to check each room on their designated floor to ensure that all occupants are aware of the emergency and the need to respond. The captains are responsible only for warning all individuals on their floor, but are not responsible for convincing or forcing people to take shelter. Ask people to move quickly and calmly to shelter areas using the nearest stairwell.

Notify the building chair or emergency responders of any suspected or known unsafe conditions present on their floor.

REMEMBER: At all times, your personal safety is of paramount importance. At no time should any of these activities be undertaken if your personal safety will be at risk.

• Tornado Drill Training for Floor Captains (Tornado Awareness Week)

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