Fire alarm... Run... Stay.

Toto Wolfcastle · 10-01-2008 04:00PM

I worked in a department store while renovations were going on. The builders set off the fire alarm about twice a week. (accidently I hope!) Anyway, it was always a false alarm, but we still had to evacuate. We were told to tell the customers twice to leave, and if they refused, leave them there. They were more concerned about the clothes they had to leave behind.

Alarm in my apartment went off 3 times in one night recently (something to do with an overheating boiler turning the place into a sauna) and my housemate, although she heard it, didn't bother getting up. Obviously I value my life so I checked that everything was ok. If there was a problem I'd be out my bedroom window (ground floor apartment) in a flash, and she'd be still in bed. (Of course I'd bang on her window once I was safe.)

Jonny Arson · 10-01-2008 04:17PM

in my old job the entire building had to be evacuated far too often due to someone burning their toast in the morning, it got to such a routine that half the company would remain there which was pretty dangerous but there's nothing like an evacuation to waste 20 minutes of the working day

RxQueen · 10-01-2008 04:18PM

when it used to go off in school, the teachers used never leave us out and kept going on with the lesson, until one they there was actually a "fire", well when i say fire a i mean a really small one in the sience room, but that thought the teachers a lesson.
Now being in work i never heard the fire alarm but if i did i would be out like a shot, always looking for a reason to get out anyways, would waste a few minutes!

thefinalstage · 10-01-2008 04:27PM

I used to use them to steal equitment from my old school. I got so much pure chlorine I could have made a gas cloud the size of louth!

eamoss · 10-01-2008 04:45PM

In School we would be the 1st ones down to the astro (our fire point) remember in 5th year was in a class with all messers and once the fire alarm went off they started going mad, shouting about there was a fire and then legged it out of the room jumping over tables and chairs.

They also came back 1st so they moved eveyones stuff around like my copy ended up in some girls bag. :rolleyes:

Last year when I lived on campus they would have a fire dirll ever month, I missed the 1st few but I was there for 2 of them and they would go into everyone room to make sure there was no there, was funny in a way becasuse you could just see the lights going on in every room one by one.

They did it by hall by hall and my hall was right beside the student office where the the fire alarm went off as well as the hall that the alarm went off so we got to hear the annoying voice every week.

One went off there the other week in Uni, was in the computer lab there was about 70 or so people in the lab not one person left then about 5mins later one of the lectures came in and told us to go out side to the fire point.

Faith · 10-01-2008 06:41PM

In first year of uni, I lived in a big student apartment complex with 50 or so apartments. The fire alarms were so sensitive that steam from the bathroom after a shower could set it off. Needless to say, one went off about once a week. I left every time, but man did it suck. The first time it happened my flatmates and I were all having dinner and we didn't know what was going on. We just sat there for a while looking at each other, before moseying out. Only once was there ever a fire.

beautiation · 11-01-2008 06:57PM

I still have my old supersoaker X200, no fire would be stupid enough to come near my house.

DublinWriter · 11-01-2008 07:29PM

I'm old enough to remember the Stardust tragedy, so I always evacuate the premises in such cases.

Fire drills at the office are the best as it's a chance to have an unscheduled smoke break and catch up on gossip.

Terry · 11-01-2008 07:51PM

Rabies wrote: »

At lunch time today the fire alarm in my aparment building went off.
Really load annoying siren and "please evacuate the building" repeated over and over again.

I was in bed asleep. Got up and my flat mate said we should leave, she was heading down town anyway.

A min later the two fire trucks pull up outside and my flate mate leaves, I was taking too long. Not my fault, I was tired.

Decided to put on some toast. Took me a while to find my keys and wallet.

My apartment is on the 10th floor, so I needed to take the stairs down.
Stroll out the fire door eating my toast and the place is full of people.

Think I was one of the last ones out.

Not really worried. Most of the time it is a false alarm. This happened about 6hrs ago, haven't been home yet. Maybe my apartment is burned down

....
Anyway, enough of my rambling story.

Does anyone ever leave a building straight away when they hear a fire alarm?
As kids we love to here it in school, fire drills are a great way to get away from doing work. The same applies to the work place.

In day to day activities, would you leave a building if you couldn't smell smoke or see a fire?

Typical Irish laxadasical attitude. I like it.

Wompa1 wrote: »

Fireman Sam started my love affair with fire and its creation!

I don't like you.
You never gave me the chance to ban you when I was an AH mod. You and your net handle.

Fire alarm... Run... Stay.

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