ESU Emergency Alerts & Safety Information
As part of our ongoing commitment to safety and communication, we want to remind you to create or verify your account with the e2Campus Emergency Notification System.
This system is critical for keeping our campus community informed about urgent events, including weather-related closures, emergencies, and other important alerts.
Why This is Important
The e2Campus system lets us quickly send notifications to your registered devices, ensuring you receive timely information whenever a situation arises.
Whether it's severe weather, campus closures, or emergency instructions, having an active e2Campus account ensures you won't miss essential updates.
Steps to Create or Verify your Account for Text Message Alerts
- Login or Register
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- If you already have an account, log in to verify your contact information is current and accurate.
- If you do not have an account, follow the prompts to create one.
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- Update Your Contact Information: Please add any phone numbers or email addresses where you prefer to receive notifications.
- Choose Your Notification Preferences: You can select which types of notifications you wish to receive and on which devices, ensuring that alerts reach you where and how you prefer.
Who Should Register
All students, faculty, and staff are strongly encouraged to have an active e2Campus
account.
Being connected through this system is essential to campus safety and helps each of
us stay informed and prepared.
Weather & Travel Info
Plans and Procedures
This quick reference guide is designed to provide you with suggested responses to various situations based on best practices established by reputable university and non-university organizations and entities. This information is only to be used as a guide. Situational judgment is always necessary.
Top 3 Emergency Tips
- Common Sense: Good judgment and logic lead to good decisions
- Stay Calm: Panic only leads to confusion and inactivity
- Call 911; do not hesitate
Emergency Procedures
- Activate the nearest fire pull alarm
- Evacuate the building at the nearest exit; notify and help others on your way out if you are able and willing
- Close doors as you leave
- DO NOT use the elevator
- DO NOT reenter the building
- Seek a sturdy shelter
- DO NOT attempt to leave a sheltered area to navigate through a storm
- Visit the ESU website for more information
- Note specific characteristics of the person
- Notify police
- DO NOT attempt to confront, stop or apprehend the person
If you receive a telephoned bomb threat: Record the exact time the threat was received and exact words of the person making the threat. Ask the person making the threat these questions:
- When is the bomb going to explode?
- Where is the bomb?
- Did you place the bomb?
- What does it look like?
- What kind of bomb is it?
- What will cause it to explode? Why?
- Where are you calling from?
- What is your address?
- What is your name?
If you see or are informed of an active shooter situation via text message or other communication:
- Evacuate if safe to do so
- If not safe to evacuate, move immediately to a secure room; close/lock/barricade the door
- Turn off lights, stay away from windows and remain calm and quiet
- DO NOT open the doors or windows to see "what's going on"
- DO NOT open the door to anyone except police
- Only contact police if you have valuable information
- Seek further information via web, telephone, text message, etc.
- Use common sense
- DO NOT touch or disturb the object
- Evacuate the area and notify others on your way out
- Call 911
- Determine the basic nature of the sickness or injury
- Notify police immediately
- Stay with the patient until police arrive
Contact Us
Campus Address
Hemlock Suites
Smith Street, Ground Floor
(570) 422-3064
Chief of Police & Director of Campus Safety
Edward Iandoli
eiandoli@esu.edu
