Evacuation Plan

Guidelines:

  • When the building alarm sounds, we evacuate.
  • Please evacuate quickly and quietly.
  • Please help those who are mobility-impaired or those with young children.
  • Please meet your family and friends at the rally point (the place to meet and reorganize). Children in Religious Education classes (RE) will be taken to the rally point.
  • If there is an issue with your assigned evacuation exit, please proceed to the next nearest exit to evacuate.

Rally point: We meet at Winfield Robbins Memorial Gardens, the town garden space between the Arlington Town Hall and the Robbins Library Sanctuary area.

  • The choir/organ half of the Sanctuary, including the balcony and the narthex (front entrance area): Evacuate through the Mass Ave door.
  • The pulpit/bell half of the Sanctuary, including the balcony, as well as the choir room, the green room, and the sexton’s closet: Evacuate through the Pleasant Street door.
  • Vestry area: Evacuate through the Vestry door.
  • Kitchen, bathrooms, parlor, office area: Evacuate through the church office door.
  • Playground/kindergarten section of the RE wing, rooms, and bathrooms: Evacuate through the playground door.
  • Main RE wing and Bailey Room: Evacuate through the RE door.

—Adopted by the Parish Committee, December 19, 2012