Fire drills
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Of course. The drill is organized at a random point in time. And the tests have fixed timing nation-wide, once a month, always on Thursdays. :)
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We are doing them at my work now over a few weekends. They sent out an email to warn us and told us "if you are in the building over the weekend and hear the alarm, be aware of your surroundings." Rather decent of them to do it over the weekend, I thought. EDIT: Luc is able to correct me by posting right before I post, yet again! We have alarm tests where I work, not fire drills.
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Sorry. Fire drills in a weekend, didn't really compute! :-D
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We just had a fire drill at work and had to leave the building for about fifteen minutes. It's a nice day outside so it wasn't too inconvenient, but now they have the fire alarms in "test". That means that for the next few hours the alarms will randomly sound for a few seconds while they test them and we are just supposed to ignore it. Ignore it. That loud and startling screeching alarm. :mad: I think operations like this should be banned from Mondays. Do you have fire drills where you work?
I used to work at wal-mart, and the alarms are amazingly loud there........ugh....
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We just had a fire drill at work and had to leave the building for about fifteen minutes. It's a nice day outside so it wasn't too inconvenient, but now they have the fire alarms in "test". That means that for the next few hours the alarms will randomly sound for a few seconds while they test them and we are just supposed to ignore it. Ignore it. That loud and startling screeching alarm. :mad: I think operations like this should be banned from Mondays. Do you have fire drills where you work?
Sure do, and by law we are required to have them every week, and everybody on the installation must take part, whether they like it or not. This has a habit of upsetting those you are in their bed, particularly if we have it around 10.30, just as the guys are getting into the deep sleep. :)
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We just had a fire drill at work and had to leave the building for about fifteen minutes. It's a nice day outside so it wasn't too inconvenient, but now they have the fire alarms in "test". That means that for the next few hours the alarms will randomly sound for a few seconds while they test them and we are just supposed to ignore it. Ignore it. That loud and startling screeching alarm. :mad: I think operations like this should be banned from Mondays. Do you have fire drills where you work?
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We just had a fire drill at work and had to leave the building for about fifteen minutes. It's a nice day outside so it wasn't too inconvenient, but now they have the fire alarms in "test". That means that for the next few hours the alarms will randomly sound for a few seconds while they test them and we are just supposed to ignore it. Ignore it. That loud and startling screeching alarm. :mad: I think operations like this should be banned from Mondays. Do you have fire drills where you work?
Each of my last 2 jobs were located on the 13th floor and our fire drills never take us outside. They do drills in batches (4 floors at a time) and we always go to the 10th floor. I don't think this is a good idea at all...
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Most of what we do every day, all day could properly be called "fire drills." Planning is for the timid.
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So true... :laugh:
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Each of my last 2 jobs were located on the 13th floor and our fire drills never take us outside. They do drills in batches (4 floors at a time) and we always go to the 10th floor. I don't think this is a good idea at all...
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" — Hunter S. Thompson
Especially if the fire ends up being on the 10th floor. Then what?
I have nothing more to say.
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Especially if the fire ends up being on the 10th floor. Then what?
I have nothing more to say.
I think we were part of the sacrificial fire buffering team. Our burnt corpses would shield the high paying renter as they escaped to safety. My favorite part is that at my old building, they skipped the 13th floor, it went from 12 to 14. Taking the stairs you could see there wasn't even a maintenance or HVAC intake floor in between or anything. So I was on the 14th floor according to them.
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" — Hunter S. Thompson
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We just had a fire drill at work and had to leave the building for about fifteen minutes. It's a nice day outside so it wasn't too inconvenient, but now they have the fire alarms in "test". That means that for the next few hours the alarms will randomly sound for a few seconds while they test them and we are just supposed to ignore it. Ignore it. That loud and startling screeching alarm. :mad: I think operations like this should be banned from Mondays. Do you have fire drills where you work?
We don't have fire drills. Let's just say that every Monday, the "Control Room" tests the 3 Chemical alarms we do have. Fortunately they tell us it's just a test so we don't have to put on our gas masks. But if we hear any of those alarms any other time....
I have nothing more to say.
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I think we were part of the sacrificial fire buffering team. Our burnt corpses would shield the high paying renter as they escaped to safety. My favorite part is that at my old building, they skipped the 13th floor, it went from 12 to 14. Taking the stairs you could see there wasn't even a maintenance or HVAC intake floor in between or anything. So I was on the 14th floor according to them.
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" — Hunter S. Thompson
wizardzz wrote:
I think we were part of the sacrificial fire buffering team. Our burnt corpses would shield the high paying renter as they escaped to safety.
That is too kind of your team to be willing to give of yourselves for the good of the weathly. I've never understood the skipping of 13. It's not a bad number. It's all in their head! Superstition is for the wea.... X|
I have nothing more to say.
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We just had a fire drill at work and had to leave the building for about fifteen minutes. It's a nice day outside so it wasn't too inconvenient, but now they have the fire alarms in "test". That means that for the next few hours the alarms will randomly sound for a few seconds while they test them and we are just supposed to ignore it. Ignore it. That loud and startling screeching alarm. :mad: I think operations like this should be banned from Mondays. Do you have fire drills where you work?
I've always thought how stupid these "If the Fire Alarm sounds between now and xx:yy please ignore it." messages are. If the alarm sounded during one of those periods, anywhere that I worked, I used to go to my assembly point and wait until somebody came and told me it was OK.
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I've always thought how stupid these "If the Fire Alarm sounds between now and xx:yy please ignore it." messages are. If the alarm sounded during one of those periods, anywhere that I worked, I used to go to my assembly point and wait until somebody came and told me it was OK.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
When I was in college living in the dorms there were a couple of weeks when the fire alarms were being pulled in the middle of the night so often that I'd actually lay out proper clothes to wear for the alarms before going to bed each night. It was the coldest week of the year with temps at night at least -20F to -30F (hence the need for warmer clothes)...and the alarm would go off at around 3 or 4 AM. During the fifth or sixth night that this happened I was almost too groggy to notice that the wall next to the stairwell was actually on fire. And even then, I was still more upset by the fact that my sleep had once again been interupted.