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Tip 1:
Interested in helping improve campus safety? Students can become safety volunteers, receive special training, and assist residence life staff in fire safety procedures.

Tip 2:
Upon request, Pitt police community relations officers will conduct apartment security surveys and Crime Watch programs. For more information, call 412-624-4040.

Living at Pitt

Residence Hall Fire Safety

All residence halls are nonsmoking environments. Each sleeping and living room in student housing has a smoke detector. Some detectors sound an alarm within an individual room, while others sound an alarm throughout an entire suite. Anyone who hears a room alarm or suspects a fire should pull a building fire alarm box, located in the hallway, to summon the fire department and alert others in the building. When the fire alarm sounds, all occupants must exit the building via the nearest stairway.

Other fire safety devices in every residence hall at Pitt include:

  • Automatic sprinkler systems;
  • Building fire alarm systems;
  • Fire extinguishers; and
  • Smoke/heat detectors in common building spaces.

Students are encouraged to report any problems with these systems to the Department of Housing. Residence life staff and desk attendants are trained in building emergency evacuation procedures.

Disabled students should contact the Department of Environmental Health and Safety (412-624-9505) to develop an individual emergency evacuation plan.

UNIVERSITY EMERGENCY
PHONE NUMBERS

University of Pittsburgh Police EMERGENCIES 4-2121
or Noncampus Phone
412-624-2121
General Assistance 4-4040
or 412-624-4040

Sexual Assault Services
412-648-7930

Student Health Service
412-383-1800

University Counseling Center
412-648-7930

Student Conduct
412-648-7910

Environmental Health and Safety
412-624-9505

SafeRider
412-648-CALL (2255)

PITTSBURGH EMERGENCY
PHONE NUMBERS (OFF CAMPUS)

City of Pittsburgh Police,
Fire, Ambulance 911

Pittsburgh Action Against Rape
24-hour hotline 1-866-363-7273

Center for Victims of
Violence and Crime
24-hour hotline 412-392-8582

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