Thanks to a phone call and training, five employees quicklyevacuated the University Credit Union branch near a shooting that claimed the lives of two men on UCLA's campusWednesday morning.

Just minutes before the campus was placed on lockdown, thebranch manager's brother who works at UCLA heard about the shootingand called UCU's UCLA branch in the Ackerman Student Union, whichis about 400 feet from the university's engineering building wherethe apparent murder-suicide took place.

Relying on their training, the employees quickly locked up thebranch and left in an employee's car. They drove to a nearbyparking lot at a shopping mall where they met Branch Manager JulioMacias, who was off-campus at the time of the incident. Theemployees then drove to UCU's main office on Sepulveda Boulevard inLos Angeles.

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