This site is designed to provide critical and life-saving information that can assist with your readiness for certain emergencies . Please explore this website and remember to be prepared and stay informed!
EverBridge is AMDA's public alert & warning system, used to distribute emergency notifications to the campus community. An EverBridge emergency notification is primarily used in an emergency to notify the AMDA community of a dangerous situation and/or immediate threat to their health or safety.
For Students: All currently enrolled students are automatically enrolled to receive emergency notifications via email. Additionally, students that have entered a valid cell phone number into their contact information will also receive SMS text notifications through the EverBridge Notification System.
For Faculty & Staff: Faculty and staff are automatically enrolled to receive EverBridge Emergency notifications via email. Additionally, faculty and staff with a valid cell phone number on file are also automatically opted-in to receive SMS text notifications through the alert system.
Updating Your Contact Information
Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to check, verify, and update their personal contact information regularly via their respective registration portals:
- Students:
- Faculty & Staff: Reach out to the Human Resources department to verify and update information.
Earthquakes represent the greatest natural disaster threat to people living in Southern California. Although we don’t know when they will occur, we know with absolute certainty that earthquakes in Los Angeles will occur, so it is critically important that every California resident has a disaster preparedness plan and knows what to do before, during and after an earthquake.
Keep personal disaster supply kits where you spend most of your time so they can easily be reached.
Emergency kits should include items such as a first aid kit, water, snacks, emergency contact phone numbers, sturdy shoes, etc. Click here for more extensive guidance
Create a disaster preparedness plan for your room and review the plan for academic and performance spaces.
Identify potential hazards in your room and begin to fix them.
Earthquake Warning California is a statewide warning system that could give California residents crucial seconds to take cover before you feel shaking. Managed by the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES), Earthquake Warning California uses ground motion sensors from across the state to detect earthquakes before humans can feel them and can notify Californians to “Drop, Cover and Hold On” in advance of an earthquake.
To receive earthquake warnings, download the MyShake App and ensure phone settings are adjusted to receive emergency alerts, including:
MyShake App: Free smartphone app that provides iPhone and Android users with audio and visual warnings [magnitude 4.5 or higher and Modified Mercalli Intensity III (weak) shaking]. Available at in the Apple App and Google Play stores;
Android Earthquake Alerts: Android phones with updated operating systems are automatically subscribed to Android Earthquake Alerts, which uses the same technology as the MyShake App; and
Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEAs): No-cost text messages for emergency situations [magnitude 5.0 or higher and Modified Mercalli Intensity IV (light) shaking.
INSIDE A BUILDING
If you feel shaking or get an earthquake alert and cannot find shelter beneath furniture, then crouch low against an interior wall, with your arms covering your head and neck:
DROP where you are onto your hands and knees. This position protects you from being knocked down.
COVER your head and neck with one arm and hand.
If a sturdy table or desk is nearby, crawl underneath for shelter.
If no shelter is nearby, crawl next to an interior wall.
Stay on your knees; bend over to protect vital organs.
HOLD ON until the shaking stops.
Shelter: hold on to it with one hand; be ready to move with your shelter if it shifts.
No shelter: hold on to your head and neck with both arms and hands.
OUTSIDE
If you are outdoors when the earthquake occurs, stay there. Move away from structures, power poles, lamp posts, or retaining walls that could fall during the quake and avoid fallen electrical lines. If possible, move to an open area.
INSIDE AN ELEVATOR
The elevator is designed not to fall down the shaft, and nothing heavy can fall on you. Building maintenance personnel will contact each elevator car as quickly as possible and advise you how rescue will occur. Upon being rescued, take directions from the building staff. If you have a medical or other emergency, use the telephone in the car; it will connect you to the contracted elevator company.
AFTER THE SHAKING STOPS
The moment the ground stops shaking check for injuries and damages that need immediate attention.
Take care of your own situation. Aftershocks may cause additional damage or items to fall, so get to a safe location at your earliest safe ability. Use your “grab-and-go” emergency supplies as needed.
If you are trapped by falling items or a collapse, protect your mouth, nose, and eyes from dust. If you are bleeding, put pressure on the wound and elevate the injured part. Signal for help with your emergency whistle, a cell phone, or knock loudly on solid pieces of the building, three times every few minutes. Rescue personnel will be listening for such sounds.
Once you are safe, help others and make your way to the emergency meeting location.
AMDA has emergency supply kits located in all buildings. These kits contain a stock of water, food and first aid supplies and can be found in larger classrooms and central locations around campus.
If you are planning to participate in events to exercise your First Amendment rights, you can follow these tips to stay safe.
Be prepared, bring water, sunscreen, wear comfortable cloth & battery charger for your phone
Avoid gatherings that you believe will escalate beyond peaceful assembly.
If you know of an event ahead of time, plan pedestrian and vehicular routes that avoid the affected areas. Road closures and traffic delays are possible. Give yourself extra time to travel.
If you are at a protest that becomes violence remain calm. DO NOT STAND STILL OR SIT DOWN.
Leave the area as quickly as possible without running.
Follow the flow of the crowd and move diagonally to the outside edges of the group.
Seek shelter in large and safe places such as stores and hotels. Avoid getting ‘boxed in’ against a building or unyielding structure like a concrete wall where protesters gatherers can push others against an object, resulting in injury.
Avoid the “front lines” of a demonstration; the area where demonstrations and local security personnel are in close proximity. This is often the most likely location where an outbreak of violence can occur. If you find yourself at the front lines, DO NOT TRY AND CROSS OVER TO THE POLICE. Instead, try to exit along the front edge of the protest demonstration crowd.
AFTER
If you have suffered injury, seek medical assistance.
Report any loss or damage to your property to the police
Report your situation or whereabouts to family, friends, or business associates
Please make your way to the safety meeting point in your building to ensure AMDA can account for all individuals and assist anyone in need.
Tower Building: Sidewalk on Yucca away from building/around & up Ivar Ave.
Vine St. Apartments: Sidewalk on Yucca away from building/around & up Ivar Ave.
Bungalows: Sidewalk on Yucca away from building/around & up Ivar Ave.
Yucca St. Apartments: Sidewalk on Yucca away from building/around & up Ivar Ave.
Allview Hall: Sidewalk on Yucca away from building/around & up Ivar Ave.
Franklin Hall: Sidewalk on Franklin away from building/towards Cahuenga Blvd.
Gilbert Hall: Sidewalk on Selma Ave (near the clinic) *Not IN the clinic parking lot, along the sidewalk.
Cosmo: Sidewalk
Ivar Building: Sidewalk
Vine Building: Sidewalk
Building Contacts
Security Guard Shack: (323) 603-5937
Tower reception: (323) 603-5901
Facilities Office: (323) 460-3089
Emergency Departments
Fire Department, Paramedic Ambulance, Police Department: 9-1-1 (If unable to get through, dial 1-800-688-8000)
Nearest Hospital
Hollywood Community Hospital
NON-EMERGENCY: (323) 462-2271
6245 De Longpre Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90028
Please make your way to the safety meeting point in your building to ensure AMDA can account for all individuals and assist anyone in need.
61st Street Building:
54th Street Academic Building:
54th Street Office Building:
Residence Hall:
Building Contacts
61st Street Reception:
Emergency Departments
Fire Department, Paramedic Ambulance, Police Department: 9-1-1
Nearest Hospital
Mount Sinai West
NON-EMERGENCY: (212) 523-4000
1000 10th Ave, New York, NY 10019