Evacuation drills will be held in University buildings and dormitories

Holding evacuation drills will help us prepare for a possible real emergency, while allowing us to meet our legal obligations. During the exercise, you will get familiar with the fire alarm, evacuation routes from your workplaces, emergency exits leading to the outside, and, after leaving the building, the assembly point. During the evacuation drill, you will also practise how to leave the building as quickly as possible and through the shortest possible route in the event of a fire alarm.  

In the event of a fire alarm, sirens will sound and you must immediately stop studying – or stop whatever activity you are doing – and leave the room you are in:  

• from the upper floors, you must go the assembly point by using the staircases and the emergency exits leading to the outside;  
• from the ground floor, you must go the assembly point by using the emergency exits leading to the outside;  
• from the basement, you must go to the assembly point by using the stairs leading to the ground floor and the emergency exits leading to the outside.  

The direction of escape will be marked by escape route luminaries.  

Assembly point during evacuation for each building:  

• Main Building: the park in front of the Sóház (Salt House).  

• Sóház (Salt House): the west side of the Main building (the side towards the Danube).  

• Building C: under the arcades, 15 metres from the entrance.  

• Kinizsi Dormitory: Nehru embankment.  

• Ráday Dormitory: Bakáts square.  

• Tarkaréti Dormitory: the courtyard of the dormitory.  

• Gellért Campus: the sports ground.  

During evacuation, you must not wait near the walls and entrances of buildings – in all cases, you must go to the assembly point. During a real incident, staying in the immediate vicinity of buildings may be dangerous for you and you may restrict the intervention of firefighting units.  

A drill may be considered successful if all persons in a building – be it the University’s own employees, students, or employees of external specialist companies – have left the building within the standard evacuation time limit (8 minutes).   

In the event of a fire alarm, lifts will not work, so you are requested not to attempt to use them during a drill or in a real situation!  

The drills will take place on the following dates:  

• Main Building: 21 October 2024, in the morning  
• Sóház (Salt House): 21 October 2024, in the morning  
• Gellért Campus: 22 October 2024, in the morning  
• Building C: 22 October 2024, in the morning  
• Kinizsi Dormitory, Ráday Dormitory: 16 October 2024, in the afternoon  
• Tarkaréti Dormitory: 16 October 2024, in the morning  

Thank you for your co-operation.