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Deathosaurus Wrecks
11-20-2003, 06:03 PM
today, my college (located in the south-loop of Chicago) had a fire drill. I'm proud to say that in the event of an actual fire, EVERYONE IN THE 623 S.MICHIGAN BUILDING WOULD BE BURNT ALIVE.

it took us 10 minutes to get down 12 flights of stairs, people were using the wrong stair cases (those not marked as fire exits), and no one really directed us to do anything after we got outside.

so, good work Columbia College, glad to know you're looking out for your students.
taekwondogirl
11-20-2003, 06:04 PM
Makes you feel any better, some jackass pulled the fire alarm in our dorm hall 3:40 am last Thursday.
Jack of Spades
11-20-2003, 10:26 PM
You think your school is slow?
We have constuction at our school right now and it sometimes sets off the alarm. One day the fire alarm just goes off during lunch...nobody moves. Everyone just talked louder or went into thier classroom.
synkr0nized
11-21-2003, 01:20 AM
It's college. When have drills and speed ever gone together?

Seriously, though, I know what you are going on about. It's kind of sad.
sushigaski
11-21-2003, 01:29 AM
Well, everybody dies someday. In your case it would just be in a fire, and because of stupid slow students! :D
Miso Beno
11-21-2003, 02:13 AM
Fire, fire on your sleve...


Oh, and I've never had a fire drill at my college.
Lycanthrope
11-21-2003, 02:44 AM
Yeah, my school had a thing for a while where the fire alarm whent off everyday three times a day. No one ever moved. My favorite scenario is if the field is on fire, and everyone has to evacuate to the field.
taekwondogirl
11-21-2003, 03:09 AM
Ha! When the person pulled the alarm at 3:40, a lot of people didn't even hear it in their sleep.

Hell, my roommate thought it was her alarm clock!
Meister
11-21-2003, 11:55 AM
My favorite scenario is if the field is on fire, and everyone has to evacuate to the field.

Oh, the memories... back in my school, each class had an assembly point outside to evacuate to in the event of a fire. These points were the columns that held the roof over a path leading to a different building. And after our first drill ever, naturally the question arose what we were to do if said roof happened to be on fire.

Or, as my teacher put it: "Good question. What are we going to do if only column D is burning?"
Neverwhere
11-21-2003, 02:24 PM
lets just say this:

If it was a fire then everyone would be going much much faster. Nobody is going to rush for a fugging drill. Now, if they were threatened with being burned alive, you bet your ass they would be going pretty damn speedy :D
Deathosaurus Wrecks
11-22-2003, 12:44 AM
lets just say this:

If it was a fire then everyone would be going much much faster. Nobody is going to rush for a fugging drill. Now, if they were threatened with being burned alive, you bet your ass they would be going pretty damn speedy :D

speedy? maybe. more stupid? definatly. we're talking about mass panic and the herd syndrome here. we'd probably have more injuries/fatalaties due to trampleing than from the fire.
Miso Beno
11-22-2003, 05:51 AM
lets just say this:

If it was a fire then everyone would be going much much faster. Nobody is going to rush for a fugging drill. Now, if they were threatened with being burned alive, you bet your ass they would be going pretty damn speedy :D

Or, if fire drills were never run, you could potentially get a mob panic which results in more casualties and slower evacuation times.