STORM2K

Woah! What a week!

Wednesday: while I was moving from 2nd to 3rd period class, a fire alarm sounded making me and the whole school leave the building. 10 minutes later, we went back inside resuming our regular schedule. After 6th period class, I had senior out, and while I was waiting on the bus, the fire alarms sounded again, and the last class period for the others haven't started yet. I was thinking that some students must've pulled it to get away from school.

Thursday: A scheduled fire drill took place at about 9:30AM. Thank goodness it's scheduled, but I took my stuff with me in case someone is stupid enough to puncture a gas pipe.

Friday: After lunch and 4th period class, the fire alarm rang again. Several kids were yellin' "YEAH!" like Lil' Jon and ran outside. It only lasted for 7 minutes.

Coincidentally, at about 1pm EDT here we had a fire drill at my school! That one was scheduled and I was only told of it because I have an aide with me at times during the day and they wanted her to know...

At my alma mater this year.. There have been fire "drills" like every day back in the 1st semester.

The kids at my school hate the new principal so they have been pulling fire alarms left and right.

I don't like the new principal either. He's a meanie..

When I was in high school, okay, it was only FOUR years ago lol, our school was under renovation.

Occasionally, along with state mandated fire drills once a month, a worker would accidently cut a wire or something and trigger the alarms.

Once with wintry weather occurring outside, the power grid for my school went down. I was in a matth class on the upper level, in a room with no windows. Needless to say, it was pretty dark. Then 2 seconds later the fire alarm goes off. Basically I had to crawal my way over desks and all to find outside light coming through the hallway. Came back in, and there were still physically handicapped students hanging out on the upper level (no power, no elevator).

I think, if I remember right, we went right onto our next period (the last period of the day for me was Speech). I was hoping that the power would come back on for elevator users and all, but I had to do a speech in front of a video camera, so I was also praying that just for 30 minutes that the power would stay off. Unfortunately, power came on soon enough for me to the deuling task.

I was in HS only 3 years ago. My 3 year anniversary of my graduation is May 22nd.

NEWeatherguy wrote: Came back in, and there were still physically handicapped students hanging out on the upper level (no power, no elevator).

Well there has to be a contingency plan for that then! Because if a real fire broke out and the elevator was out of service, then there'd be people like me dead! At my school, we do have that kind of plan...if I'm on the upper level and the alarm sounds, we go to the stairs, four teachers hold a blanket, then I lay in the middle of it and they carry me and the chair down...simple as that...

therock1811 wrote:
Well there has to be a contingency plan for that then! Because if a real fire broke out and the elevator was out of service, then there'd be people like me dead! At my school, we do have that kind of plan...if I'm on the upper level and the alarm sounds, we go to the stairs, four teachers hold a blanket, then I lay in the middle of it and they carry me and the chair down...simple as that...

This though was after finding out that the alarm was due to power outage, not a fire. THey would certainly do this if it was an emergency in which elevator use would be hazardous.

Well I hope so...did they even think of it after the fact?

therock1811 wrote:Well I hope so...did they even think of it after the fact?

Not sure. If I was in this situation, however, I'd be asking for help or, as a last resort, crawling down the stairs.

I take it back, there were 5 fire drills this week, the recent one was Friday at 2:47 PM CDT. It seems like a pattern isn't it? The fire alarms were activating between class periods.