UC San Diego Emergency Management & Business Continuity

10/16/2026

Thank you Tritons❣️💖🔱For World Restart a Heart Day, we highlight our participation in Revive & Survive and Ready To Respond, initiatives to train San Diegans on how to perform Hands-only CPR and use an AED. Our trainings contributed to the 1 Million San Diegans trained for Revive & Survive and started this October the goal of 20K people trained with Ready to Respond.

Keep the beat and keep San Diegans Stayin' Alive.
Learn more about our efforts https://blink.ucsd.edu/safety/emergencies/preparedness/get-ready/training-day/index.html

Video: Collage of Hands-only CPR training pictures of multiple attendees learning CPR from trainer and performing compressions on manikins.

10/14/2026

10/09/2026

Thank you Pepper Canyon West Res Life for having us and kicking off our Great ShakeOut tour across campus. Next stop is the Great ShakeOut and Gear Up event coming up 10/15/26 at Marshall Field

For more details, see our websitehttps://blink.ucsd.edu/safety/emergencies/preparedness/get-ready/shakeout.html

Video: Earthquake preparedness event with activity stations from Hands Only CPR , Stop the Bleed , fire extinguisher, and Meet and Greets.

10/06/2026

🔱TRITONS, are you earthquake ready? Get ready to ShakeOut. Join us on October 15th for this year’s Great ShakeOut drill at 10:15 A.M.and our ShakeOut and Gear Up event on Marshall Lawn, from 10 A.M. TO 1 P.M.
For more details go to our website: https://blink.ucsd.edu/safety/emergencies/preparedness/get-ready/shakeout.html

10/01/2026

Stay cool Tritons! The Naional Weather Service (NWS) has issued an extreme heat watch. Tritons learn more on how to stay cool and about Cool Zone locations:
https://blink.ucsd.edu/safety/emergencies/preparedness/extreme-heat.html

EXTREME HEAT WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING [10/02/26] THROUGH
WEDNESDAY EVENING [10/7/26]:

* WHAT...Dangerously hot conditions with high temperatures on the hottest days ranging from around 90 near the coast to the upper 90s to upper 100s for the valleys possible. Low temperatures for coastal areas into the western valleys will warm into the lower to mid 70s during the weekend, with those warm overnight temperatures continuing for next week.

*WHERE...San Diego County Coastal Areas, San Diego County Valleys.

* WHEN...From Friday morning, October 2nd through Wednesday evening, October 7th.

* IMPACTS...Heat related illnesses increase significantly during
extreme heat events.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...A long-duration heat wave is expected to develop late this week and continue through much of next week into the following weekend with Moderate or greater HeatRisk for the coast and valleys and Major to Extreme HeatRisk for inland coastal areas into the western valleys.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

🔱Drink plenty of fluids,
🔱Stay in an air-conditioned OR cool room if possible.
🔱Stay out of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors.

Picture: UC San Diego Sun God Lawn on a sunny and warm day.

09/15/2026

New Campus Emergency Response Team (CERT) Training Academy dates available.
CERT membership requires graduation from a 25-hour CERT Basic Training Academy. All CERT trainings are provided free of charge for UC San Diego faculty, staff, and students

CERT training teaches participants how to:

🔱Prepare for emergencies and disasters
🔱Provide basic disaster medical care and triage
🔱Perform light search and rescue
🔱Suppress small fires safely
🔱Work effectively within organized response teams

Next CERT Academy
September 22–24, 2026
8 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day
Campus Service Complex, Building D, Training Room (map)
Lunch provided
Registration required: Visit Campus Emergency Response Team (CERT) Academy on UC Learning Center.

08/25/2026

🌞The National Weather Service has issued a Heat Advisory is issued for the San Diego Coasts for temperatures in the 90s beginning at 10:00 a.m. today 8/25/26- Friday 8/28/26 8:00 p.m.
⁃ Stay inside or in shaded areas
- Drink plenty of water
- If you feel sick from the heat, call 9-1-1
- Never leave young children or pets alone in vehicles
Find a cool place near you and tips to beat the heat at coolzones.org
🔱 On Campus, consider going to Geisel Library or the Price Center to cool down.

For more cooling tips go to our website:
https://blink.ucsd.edu/safety/emergencies/preparedness/extreme-heat.html

For an updated County of San Diego map and more information, visit AlertSanDiego.org. Follow CNWSSanDiego on X for updates.

Pictured: Surfer riding wave with the sun behind him, setting down the middle of Scripps pier.

08/21/2026

BTS of our Emergency Management Tabletop Exercise with over 20 campus partners, including Deans of the Colleges, UC San Diego Police, ResLife offices, Academic Affairs, Student Affairs and Campus Life, University Centers. Recreation, Facilities Management, RRSS, EH&S, Transportation, Libraries, CAPS, and Student Health. Thank you to all of our participants; players and observers. We also had evaluations from UC San Diego Health, SDSU, and CSU San Marcos. The Tabletop Exercise connected many resources and generated great discussions that will be incorporated into our emergency planning and protocols.

Picture 1) Evaluator manual in the foreground with people seated next to tables in large training room in background with facilitator to the right with a projector screen. 2) Emergency Management team standing facilitating training speaking towards audience. 3, 4,5) full training room of seated people at tables for the training showing amount of people in large room with facilitators standing wearing yellow vests.

08/11/2026

🔱🌞Appreciation post for the UC San Diego Police Department team for their version of National Night Out, Grillin' n Chillin' for our VC OMCP partners.

Thank you for the great conversations, delicious food and the opportunity to showcase our Campus Emergency Response Team program, Hands-Only CPR and always great to see the UCSD Employee Wellness team too.

Pictured: 1) UC San Diego Police members seasoning burgers on the grill, 2 and 3) Police members serving burgers to Facilities Management members lined up around the grill and tables, 4) Discussions with our Emergency Management team on the Campus Emergency Response Team (CERT) program, 5) Hands-only CPR training and demonstration, 6) Facilities Management members enjoying the food around tables and in the shade under tents, 7) UCSD Fire Marshal office waiting in line for food, 8) UCSD Transportation and Auxiliary services team showing off the food, 9) Line of multiple UCSD departments talking while waiting for food , 10) CERT discussions, 11) EH&S showing the Emergency Response truck and Duty Response Team.

07/24/2026

Thank you to our partners and participants at Rya Pepper Canyon West Res Life for having us out for a summer Great ShakeOut and Gear Up event. We can't wait for the October 15th Great ShakeOut event at Marshall Field. Our participants learned life-saving skills and resources to know what to do following an earthquake or disaster with first aid, fire extinguisher, and bystander hands-only CPR training. Thank you to Diego and UC San Diego Police Department for providing support too!