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just had fire drill at work

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cain

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so i just had a fire drill at work. reminded me of how many of those i slept through at the fraternity house. so good of my brothers to wake me up...
 
lol...my freshman year in college, each dorm building has 1 drill per year at a random time.

Of course, for it to be most effective they need lots of people there, so what do they do? On a Wednesday morning, at 3:30am, they set it off. That was the definition of fun...
 
As much as I like the idea of practicing for disasters, I think that when a real fire happens, everyone will rush and trample everyone instead of leaving in a orderly fashion.
 
Originally posted by: brtspears2
As much as I like the idea of practicing for disasters, I think that when a real fire happens, everyone will rush and trample everyone instead of leaving in a orderly fashion.
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Hell yeah, I know I would.
 
If a real fire happens, the problem is people stacking over each other, stomping the ones that fall. The fire and smoke is not so much of a danger in the first minutes (well, except in case of a methan gas explosion)
 
I slept through mine when I was in the dorms. Would have burned to death if it were an actual fire? Yes; would be awake to know about it? Hopefully not.
 
I've always wanted to take a barrel full of burning leaves and throw it next to the air conditioner intakes before pulling the fire alarm. That's a better drill cause it'll help make it more realistic.
 
Heh... I slept through a number of them when I was in the military dorms. Well, tried to, anyway, the alarms were loud enough to wake even me up, and I'm an incredibly heavy sleeper.
 
Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
I've always wanted to take a barrel full of burning leaves and throw it next to the air conditioner intakes before pulling the fire alarm. That's a better drill cause it'll help make it more realistic.
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So now you think you are in charge of the fire alarms? 😀
 
Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
I've always wanted to take a barrel full of burning leaves and throw it next to the air conditioner intakes before pulling the fire alarm. That's a better drill cause it'll help make it more realistic.
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You should not pull the fire alarm - the smoke sensors would do it for you
 
lol, I bet the chicks in dorms loved those AM hour firedrills when they looked their worst. On top of that, we were in Buffalo and freezing outside... here we have everybody in their PJs too.
 
Seton hall fire - read the last line of part of the article I quoted. All hell breaks loose... people getting burned up. A couple sleep through it and emerge unscathed.

Fire kills 3 in Seton Hall dorm prone to false alarms

By Mary Jo Patterson Star-Ledger Staff


A small but intense fire sent acrid black smoke through a freshman dormitory at Seton Hall University in South Orange before dawn yesterday, killing three students and sending hundreds of others on a flight for their lives.

Fifty-eight students were injured, four critically, by the flames and thick smoke that billowed from a third-floor lounge. The smoke blinded and choked 18- and 19-year-olds as they felt their way, or crawled, to stairwells. Others, terrorized, remained in their rooms, crying and begging for help. At least one jumped from his window before firefighters could extend rescue ladders.

Nearly a score of false alarms in recent weeks had caused many students to disregard the fire alarm at first. Then, as the smoke filled the building, they realized this was no prank. ??I heard people screaming. . . . ?This one?s for real! This one?s for real!?? said Jason Esposito, a resident of the dormitory, Boland Hall.

Alison Liptak was one of those who discounted the alert. ?I just thought it was another false alarm. I just laid there, kind of ignoring it, until I heard someone running down the hall,? said Liptak, 18, of Clifton. The pajamas-clad freshman escaped from her fourth-floor room to find another horror scene outside. She looked up to see students leaning out windows, pleading for help.

As of early this morning, investigators had not pinpointed the cause of the fire, but they had ruled out careless smoking and faulty electrical wiring.

Authorities identified the three dead students as John Giunta of Vineland, Aaron Karol of Green Brook and Frank Caltabilota of West Long Branch. Two of the three were found in the lounge, burned beyond recognition, according to sources at the scene. The third, whom fellow students tried to revive, was found in a bedroom nearby.

The most seriously injured were three of 12 victims admitted to the burn unit of Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, and one victim at University Hospital in Newark.

By day?s end, 45 students had been treated and released from seven area hospitals, most suffering from smoke inhalation.

The six-story Boland Hall - built in 1952 as the university?s first dormitory - is home to 600 Seton Hall freshmen.

University officials said that 18 false alarms had been registered at the 350-room structure since Sept. 1, fewer than in previous years. Still, a number of students buried their heads in their pillows at the sound of the alarm. ?I didn?t think anything of it. We?ve had fire alarms going off all the time during finals week, and I figured, ?More of the same,?? said Tom Semko of Howell.

Hellish sights and sounds confronted fleeing students.

Anthony Neis, an 18-year-old from Staten Island, passed a young man who was clad only in shorts, covered with burns, and moaning. ?He must have been in such pain,? said Neis, who escaped unharmed.

Carrie Fleisher, a freshman from Hillsborough, saw a teenager on fire. ?He was totally blackened. Some kids were hitting him with a jacket. He was conscious and hitting himself, too,? she said. Jumping from the ledge Outside, one teenager hung by his hands from a window sill. Another, Nicholas Donato, a 6-foot-1 freshman, walked to his window ledge and jumped, breaking an ankle and wrist.

Yatin Patel, 19, of Jersey City, trapped in his room, heaved mattresses out his window, with his roommate?s help. Paralyzed with fear, he was standing at the window, contemplating jumping, when a firefighter burst into the room. Patel wet a sock, put it over his mouth and nose and - grabbing the kneeling fireman?s left leg - began to crawl out into the corridor. His roommate held Patel?s leg in turn and crawled behind them. The trio moved slowly through the darkness, under flames licking from ceiling tiles, to a stairwell.

Down the hall, Virginia Wannamaker dialed 911 on her cell phone as she waited in fear with her roommate. The 18-year-old from Irvington heeded the advice of the fire dispatcher, stuffing a comforter under the door and sealing it tight with packing tape. They opened windows and turned on a fan.

South Orange fire sources said they were alerted to the fire at 4:28 a.m. by the college?s public safety department and had the fire under control by approximately 4:45 a.m. Officials on the scene could not pinpoint exactly when the blaze started, however. Seven other municipalities also responded to the general alarm fire.

University officials said the building?s occupants included 18 paid resident assistants, one priest and four professional staffers. In the event of a fire, resident assistants are to knock on every door, said Lisa Grider, a spokeswoman for Seton Hall. South Orange firefighters conducted an extensive primary search of the dorm, followed by two more, she added.

Still, two freshmen slept through the entire ordeal undetected and emerged unscathed hours later, at 2 p.m.
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Originally posted by: Jehovah
I slept through mine when I was in the dorms. Would have burned to death if it were an actual fire? Yes; would be awake to know about it? Hopefully not.
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No, you would have survived it. Most dorms are quite fire resistant... cinder block construction, etc. Check out the tragedies where people have died in dorm fires - the majority of deaths occured while people were evacuating and were overcome by smoke.
 
Originally posted by: cain
so i just had a fire drill at work. reminded me of how many of those i slept through at the fraternity house. so good of my brothers to wake me up...
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At our school if you failed to leave the building during a fire drill you were subject to a minor fine, which was at the discrection of us (Student Life) to give out if we felt you ignored it on purpose. If you were sleeping or something and obviously were just a sound sleeper it wasn't a big deal, but we had people who'd just put on headphones and say screw it I don't care, those people got nailed with a fine.
 
A watermain broke down the street yesturday by my workplace, somehow setting off the fire alarm (i know, wtf?), which therefore turned off the air conditioning system... I got there for my shift 2 hours later, it was fscking HOT in there... and no one buys stuff from a sweaty ogre 🙁
 
Originally posted by: Pciber
A watermain broke down the street yesturday by my workplace, somehow setting off the fire alarm (i know, wtf?), which therefore turned off the air conditioning system... I got there for my shift 2 hours later, it was fscking HOT in there... and no one buys stuff from a sweaty ogre 🙁
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A lot of systems are linked to the water supply for a reason, in large buildings if there's no water source and a fire breaks out, then all hell breaks loose cause the sprinklers won't work right. So if the water source is interrupted a lot of places are setup to sound the alarm just in case a fire could break out, that's how our strip mall works. Plus, if a fire breaks out at one end, we're at the other (like 400 feet away) we still gotta leave the building.
 
i had one freshmen year in the dorms at 4:30am in december. it was cold as balls. and those fire alarms in dorm rooms is loud and piercing. on top of that, they have flashing lights that can make you twitch.
 
Originally posted by: Sphexi
Originally posted by: Pciber
A watermain broke down the street yesturday by my workplace, somehow setting off the fire alarm (i know, wtf?), which therefore turned off the air conditioning system... I got there for my shift 2 hours later, it was fscking HOT in there... and no one buys stuff from a sweaty ogre 🙁
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A lot of systems are linked to the water supply for a reason, in large buildings if there's no water source and a fire breaks out, then all hell breaks loose cause the sprinklers won't work right. So if the water source is interrupted a lot of places are setup to sound the alarm just in case a fire could break out, that's how our strip mall works. Plus, if a fire breaks out at one end, we're at the other (like 400 feet away) we still gotta leave the building.
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Exactly... you just don't know how much fun it is to be one of very few employees working in a building when the fire alarm sounds... we discovered it was because one of the water supplies was interrupted because of construction. Nobody really cared about that, tho. People did perk up when they heard the alarms sound a second time, a couple of hours later - the water main was still closed, and smoke sensors indicated a fire in one of the farthest wings of the building... we evacuated everyone and called the fire department instead of hitting "bypass" that time 😉 Turned out that a custodian was grilling behind the building, and an air handler found some of the smoke.... lol
 
FF Water supplies have flow sensor (paddles) installed in all risers and are susceptible to false tripping by air belching and severe fluctuations in supply line pressure.

What's worse than a fire drill is a fire saw. That can actually cut you.
 
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