are unannounced fire drills in dorms a bad idea?

ijailin89
Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:42:06 +0000

I kind of disagree with the idea that fire drills are useless – it depends on your dorm as to the degree of usefulness (for example, my dorm has sixteen floors, and the dorm next door has eighteen, so it is quite useful to know how to get out if you live on the tenth floor, like I do). I also actually think unannounced ones are better than announced ones, since they’re more like what would happen with a real fire. At my school, we have scheduled fire drills every week that test the system, and they tell us not to leave during those. Not a big fan of those…

Anyway, if you’re still not happy with your school’s drills, remember this: there’s usually someone who has it worse. For example, most people evacuate and end up on their nice, green, closed campuses. People in my dorm evacuate and end up in their pajamas/towels off of Union Square. This happened at the beginning of the year, because some idiot pulled the alarm.