Has this happened at any of your schools before? It happened once at high school. All the kids were outside and the alarms started going off. School hadn’t started for the day yet. They got on the intercom and stated that everyone needed to evacuate to the parking lot however it wasn’t very audible from outside and the kids were just ignoring the alarm. There were outside PA speakers. It happened on Halloween so it might be the case that some kid pulled the alarm as a Halloween prank.
It happens, for various reasons. In elementary school when I was in kindergarten they were doing some sort of woodwork in the building and the sawdust tripped a smoke detector. In my middle school some kid pulled it as a prank.
The PA announcement, not the alarms.
The PA announcement, not the alarms.
This happened once during my sophomore or junior year at Stevenson High School. Between 6:30 and 7:00, a heating fan (concealed by drop ceilings) in one of the classrooms short circuited and started spewing smoke. The classroom doors and windows were all shut at the time, but some of the smoke spilled out through the door gaps and into the hallway. A staff member noticed it and activated a pull station. I walked to school back then, and the fire alarm system was already silenced by the time I got near an entrance to the school. A growing group of staff and students were gathered at the bus loop.
It wasn’t until a little after 8:00 that everybody was allowed back in–we had to wait for an all-clear from Livonia Fire & Rescue. The alarm system was activated shortly after 12:50 that same day as it was being reset, presumably because the panel was being tested in response to the incident. No announcement ever was made, which meant everybody was evacuating until the system was silenced about midway from my exit route.
Once in high school. The running joke was culinary burned something and set the alarms off. I don’t really know what trips it when there is an alarm instead of a drill. The pulls have stoppers over them except for the modular building.
The only time i can think of is back in elementary school, when they were working on an A/C unit on the roof and it malfunctioned, causing a false alarm during a recess. No one really knew what was going on till the teachers came out and tried to find all their students.
This happened at my school once a few years ago. A light fixture in the cafeteria started smoking and activated a smoke detector at around 6:45 in the morning. By the time I got to school, there were several fire trucks outside. Thankfully, no one was hurt, and the only damage was to the light fixture.
This happened at my school recently, due to a dirty smoke detector. It is above a door that is always open, so I guess dust particles blowing in over time caused it to trip.
So just a little off topic really quickly, we had to evacuate before school started, could they count this evacuation as one of their monthly drills?
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I’m not sure. I mean in the past i had no clue if a false alarm counted as an evacuation.
At my school, it did not.
It likely depends on the school district as to whether or not a false alarm evacuation can count as a fire drill. My elementary school once had an evacuation during the school day due to popcorn burning and they said on the intercom afterwards that they were gonna count that as the fire drill for that month. Even in districts where false alarm evacuations can count as drills I’m not sure if an evacuation occurring before school even starts can count as one.