Fire Drill!

[Saydrah]

No idea what happened but we just had to evacuate the building because fire alarms went of! Fire Dep't responded. Back inside, though, and everything seems fine. This has been a very WEIRD week.

[Kittish]

If the firemen there are anything like the ones here, at least they're great eye candy!

Seems like the cleaning crew manage to set off the fire alarms where I work once every couple of months or so. Always fun.

[Saydrah]

They were fully suited, and, contrary to my sincerest hopes, did not remove their fire suits and do a little dance before leaving. In fact, they were quite rapid and efficient. Kudos, Greenwood Village fire dept.!

[PuckishOne]

did not remove their fire suits and do a little dance before leaving

I believe that service is an additional tax charge that requires a 60% majority vote on an emergency-services levy.

We used to have monthly fire drills at my last job. At least in the summer months the firefighters would turn up without their heavy coats...and we have a few attractive female firefighters as well, so everyone was taken care of in the eye-candy department.

[Meadhands]

We actually had a fire alarm go off at my workplace as well just recently. They told us sternly when we started "We do NOT have fire drills, so if the alarm goes off, round everyone up and get outside."

Needless to say, we still do not know what caused the alarm to go off. The college is quite large. However, it was nice being able to talk to my boss and co-workers in a non-work environment (even if it was 50' tops from where I actually work). It just felt more relaxed.

Thinking on it, we never considered that there was really a fire, which was odd. We just kinda said "Oh, fire alarm. Lets get outside until the all clear is given."

[looney_librarian]

Hell we had a fire drill here at the library a few months back. Besides everyone looking around wondering what was going on and asking is that a fire alarm. (yes you idiot the bright flashing lights beside a sign that says fire alarm, plus the loud klaxon that makes me have to yell at you from 3 feet away so I can be heard should give you a hint that it's a fire alarm). The fire department took 10 min to get here, yet they are only about a 5-10 min walk from the library.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I hate fire drills at work. Cuz all the customers just act like deer in headlights when we tell them to leave their shopping and get the hell out; last time, it took us nearly an hour to shove all the idiots out of the building. And then, some of them tried to go back in! *head desk*

[Saydrah]

I believe that service is an additional tax charge that requires a 60% majority vote on an emergency-services levy.

We used to have monthly fire drills at my last job. At least in the summer months the firefighters would turn up without their heavy coats...and we have a few attractive female firefighters as well, so everyone was taken care of in the eye-candy department.

Remind me to always vote for those!

Amusingly, the horse rescue I used to work for did a photo shoot for 'firefighters and horses.' Males and females, no shirtlessness but some with very small tight undershirts and their fireman pants. Then the calendar got canceled. So we had a bunch of cute firefighter pics and no use for them.

[wagegoth]

Remind me to always vote for those!
Then the calendar got canceled. So we had a bunch of cute firefighter pics and no use for them.

No PUBLIC use for them.

[crazylegs]

and we have a few attractive female firefighters as well, so everyone was taken care of in the eye-candy department.

Puck, any chance of a Roomie?

[PuckishOne]

Puck, any chance of a Roomie?

I'm not sure what Mr Puck would say, but I sure as hell ain't using the fire alarm as a dating service!!

[Freemage]

I always used to dread fire drills a few years ago--at that time, our staff (which spends a good portion of our shift outside the building, or on completely different floors, mind you) was the de facto fire-wardens for our floor, meaning we were expected to go around and roust everyone once the alarm went off.

Of course, most of these people are WORKING, damnit, and don't want to spend 20-45 minutes waiting outside while the fire department confirms that our 30-story building is all-clear. And this is my fault, of course.

I always wanted to get little stickers to slap on reluctant co-workers that said, "Dead from smoke inhalation", "Burned to a crisp", and so on.

They finally took us off warden duty on the day when NONE of our staff was there for a drill. I was arriving at work literally two minutes after they started the alarm, meaning I wasn't allowed to go upstairs. So I just stood outside and politely informed the security staff that most of my co-workers were probably dying horrible drill-deaths. They got the point.

[Eric the Grey]

They were fully suited, and, contrary to my sincerest hopes, did not remove their fire suits and do a little dance before leaving. In fact, they were quite rapid and efficient. Kudos, Greenwood Village fire dept.!

Greenwood Village, you say? I'm on the opposite end of town from you (Broomfield).

When I worked at my first Operations job, they moved us into a small room right off the data center, called it "The Command Center" in an effort to make it sound important (IMO). Anyway, a week after we moved in there, I was in the middle of my night shift, and stepped out of the room to find the alarms going off.

Doing what I should do, I left, and waited with security and the cleaning crew, the only other people in the building, for the all-clear. It was a false alarm. However, I had a few words with HR the next day about it. They promptly installed a blinking warning light (instead of an alarm).


Eric the Grey

[PepperElf]

that's weird.

every place i've been in with a fire-drill made it official and let us know exactly when we could go back in.

and when it wasn't a drill - a real fire, someone messing with an alarm, or a faulty alarm - we had to wait outside until the fire department gave the "all clear".

in fact...if it's not a drill... i thought they legally had to show up (or someone had to call?)

[Geek King]

The only time I was involved in a non-drill evac was a four story office building where I was doing software testing. What a madhouse! People running over each other to get down the stairs, and the guys who were supposed to help the wheelchair-bound programmer down the stairs freaked out, and I ended up carrying him down piggyback with another programmer making sure he stayed on my back (weak arms, electric wheelchair. I think he had a muscular disorder.). Funny how all those fire drill did almost nothing to help keep the panic down, other than to alert me that we had a special case on my floor to look out for.

Fortunately, the fire just turned out to be an exec leaving his cup of coffee on a warming plate while he went off to a meeting. Coffee boiled off, and started smoking. Sprinklers destroyed his office, and much laughter was had at his expense. Felt bad for the IT guys though, all the equipment on his desk was a loss.