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Each school shall hold fire drills each month. One of these shall be supervised by a member of the Manchester Fire Department.

All teachers shall be familiar with the fire drill rules in his/her school. This should be cleared with the building principal. The principal and the teachers shall outline to all students, the procedures for conducting fire drills.

Under rules of the New Hampshire Department of Safety each school is required to conduct a fire evacuation drill each month that school is in session. However, pursuant to RSA 189:64, I, at least four (4) such drills shall be all-hazard response drills, and at least one (1) of those must test emergency response to an armed assailant.  The armed assailant drill may be discussion based.  The scheduling, as well as the types and manner of drills and exercises for the all-hazard drills shall be determined by the building principal in consultation with the Superintendent, and local public safety, emergency management, and public health officials. The school may include students and first responders in all-hazard response drills or activities as deemed appropriate by the building principal and Superintendent.  The remaining fire evacuation drills should be for each building by the building principal in coordination with the local fire department.  

The purpose such drills is to train students, under staff direction, to move safely, quickly, and quietly from any location within the building to an assigned evacuation area outside.  The evacuation routes and procedures shall be developed in collaboration with the same agencies identified above for scheduling, and in accordance with the District's annual Crisis Prevention and Emergency Response Plan.   Records of such drills shall be kept in accordance with 

See appendix - EBCB-R - Fire Exit Drills In Educational Occupancies

NHSBA Code EBCB

08/94 revised as follows:

First Reading Coordination: 11/14/01

Second Reading and Approval BOSC: 12/10/01

Updated March 2021

First Reading (Policy Committee): March 9, 2021

Second Reading and BOSC Approval: March 22, 2021