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does everyone else stick around while you run out the door?
I always leave and so should you.
I tell everyone in the family to leave.
After The Station Night Club fire that killed 100 people the National Institute on Standards and Technology built an identical room lighting it on fire to see how the fire grew.
The camera is just off the floor and the super heated air, appears to be dark smoke, 90 seconds in at the end of the video, was measured at 1,832 degrees F. One breath of air that hot and you are dead if you are lucky.
Watch the black smoke at the end, that is instant death coming down.
I doubt the OP has ever been involved in any sort of a fire drill. I'm actually beginning to wonder if the OP has ever worked in an office or even held any sort of a job. (Theme music from "The Twilight Zone" gently plays in the background)!
I was the evacuation captain for my company in a Chicago Loop 35-story high rise. Thankfully I only participated in fire drills. We were evacuated "for real" several times but not because of fire and each time I was home sick. If you don't take a fire alarm seriously you are going to be very sorry if there really is a fire. Stop, drop and roll!
At my previous place of employment, we were not to leave until a supervisor told us to. This was while working for a government agency. One my high schools also had the policy of you do not leave unless the loudspeaker tells you to. A security guard would go to the source of the alarm and see if it were really a fire.
Well the alarms have never actually gone off while at work, but I've always adhered to the evacuation procedure during drills.
It's gone off a few times in my apartment building, and I haven't evacuated. It's a concrete building with precast tenant separation walls. I usually watch the fire trucks below. If they leave right away, I go about my business. If more come after the first crew inspect the situation, then I'll evacuate. I do always put the leash on the cat and get out his carrier though, just in case I need to move quickly.
IMO all places of employment should have fire drills. All employees should have to evacuate as though it were a real fire for their own saftey. It could be a drill or it could be real and who is anyone to assume to know the difference when the alarm rings, which it should every time. If it is real then getting out saves your life if it's not real practice helps you for when/if it is. I would question why it's not being done at work if it isn't.
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