Pepperdine students discuss shelter in place experience NBC 7 San Diego [Video]

Pepperdine University students who’ve hunkered down with their peers on campus amid the shelter-in-place order that was issued due to the Franklin Fire say although harrowing, they understand they’re in the safest place they could be.

Students at the coastal school were ordered to shelter in place at the Payson Library and Waves Café, where generators are providing power to their best ability.

“We’ve got food and water, power for charging their phones so they can continue to keep in contact with their loved ones,” said Michael Friel, Director of Communications and Public Relations for Pepperdine.

Rachel Flynn, a Pepperdine senior. said students put chairs and couches together to get comfortable as they ride out the emergency order. As flames inched closer to the campus, final exams that were scheduled have since been canceled.

“We were supposed to be taking finals this week and with the students that I talked to, we’d …