Emergency
Emergency evacuation
Evacuation!
You have just been to see your favourite
band
London,
and are
heading
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just been
to annow
England
home.
football match at Wembley stadium
and are
on theofway
back
to
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arenow
hundreds
other
people
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around
you as
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the morning.
same
concert. You and the other
England
supporters
are
making
your
Everywhere you look you see people
waythe
through
theMany
local of
railway
station
from
concert.
them have
to thethe
underground,
fromt-shirts.
where you
bought
same souvenir
can get the train back home.
People chat to those around them about
the gig they’ve just been to.
With these other fans, you
make your way into an
Underground station.
You all head towards the
platform from which you
will catch your train.
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justwaiting
about to
underground
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areare
just
forboard
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train
when there
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you hearalong
someone
‘there is a
is some
commotion
the shout
platform.
fire, get out, get out’. You look behind you and
see large flames at one end of the platform
people running
away from
the fire.
Youwith
suddenly
hear someone
shout
‘Fire!
around you looks scared and you
GetEverybody
out, get out!’.
feel yourself start to sweat and sense your
heart pumping faster. The fire seems to be
bigger rapidly
andsee
yousmoke
start to choke
Yougetting
look behind
you and
on the smoke.
You
realise
thatend
youofmay
billowing
towards
you
at one
theonly
have a few minutes to get back up to ground
platform.
level and away from the fire in order to
survive.
The air seems to be getting thicker and hotter
and you start to choke on the smoke.
You realise that you may only have a few
minutes to get back up to ground level and
survive.
Instructions
But
there are other people trying to get
need to get out fast but there are other
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people trying to get out too.
The station is still packed with other
fans from the same concert that you’ve
just been to…
Of course you need to get out as fast
as you can.
But this is not a game. It is an
examination of how you would behave
during a real-life emergency.
At the end of the evacuation, you will
have to account for your behaviour by
being interviewed briefly by Dr John
Drury from the Psychology Department.
Now close your eyes for a few moments
and picture yourself in the scenario.
At the signal from the experimenter, open
your eyes again and the evacuation will
begin. ….
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