Campus Alert Archive

Institution

University of California, Los Angeles

UCLACAPublic R1BruinALERT~47,000 students

Cases: 13
Alerts: 29
Verbatim: 31%
Span: 1992–2025

Official alert policy

How UCLA says it will alert — when and how BruinAlert activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.

Case log

Every documented incident

13 cases · 9 of 29 alert messages verbatim-confirmed

2025

fire: 2025-04-01A 5:21 AM Gas Canister, A Kiln, And Three Floors of Sprinkler Water at UCLA's Molecular Sciences Buildingemergency notificationverbatim
wildfire: 2025-01-08Palisades Fire Forces UCLA to Cancel Classes as Evacuation Warnings Creep Toward 47,000-Student Campusemergency notificationverbatim
wildfire: 2025-01-07'Be Ready to Evacuate': An 8:17 PM BruinAlert as the Palisades Fire Reached UCLA's Doorstepemergency notificationverbatim

2024

2023

robbery: 2023-03-05The 5:45 AM Camaro: UCLA Staff Robbed at Gunpoint on Westwood Boulevard, Sparking a Sunday-Night Crime Alerttimely warning

2019

disease outbreak: 2019-04-25119 Bruins Quarantined Over Measles in Franz and Boelter Hallsadvisory

2016

active shooter: 2016-06-01From 'Police Activity' to 'Lockdown Now!' in Four Minutes: UCLA's Escalation Dilemmaemergency notification1 killedverbatim

2014

theft: 2014-11-0855 MacBooks, One Smashed Window: A Weekend Library Break-In UCLA Police Cracked in Four Daystimely warning

2008

fire: 2008-12-29The Plastic Syringe and the Pyrophoric: A 23-Year-Old's Death in a UCLA Chemistry Lab Reshaped Academic Lab Safetyemergency notification1 killed

1994

earthquake: 1994-01-17Royce Hall Towers Crack and Kerckhoff Spires Rotate Six Inches: UCLA's $2.2 Billion Reckoning With Northridgeemergency notification

1992

civil unrest: 1992-04-3011:45 AM: Campus-Wide Loudspeakers Announce UCLA Will Close at Noon as LA Burnsemergency notification

By incident type

What UCLA has alerted about

Property Crime · 3 Weather · 3 Civil Unrest · 2 Fire · 2 Active Shooter · 1 aggravated assault · 1 Public Health · 1

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