are unannounced fire drills in dorms a bad idea?

wsuwarrior10
Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:34:24 +0000

As a RA who has done fire drills before, I agree completely that they are necessary. For those of you who say that “everyone knows what to do” then why is it that I have seen people staring out the window at me when I walk around my building during a fire drill?

Some of them were students that were just too stupid to leave, and others were foreign exchange students, who did not know the meaning of “fire drill” or what the siren meant. Perhaps that is why colleges, where some students come form places that did not have “siren = evacuate” drilled into their heads, still practice regular fire drills.