This topic will be used for the emergency procedures for this school year.
I’vehad my fire drill this week
Here is the topic I made about a fire drill I had on Friday that I made before this topic got posted.
@moderators srry for the ping. Can we pin this topic and have an auto lock?
We had a lockdown drill today during 5th Period (My French class.) My art teacher hinted at it yesterday and I thought it was going to be during 3rd period. The school’s Centegix CrisisAlert system was not activated this time.
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Idk when my lockdown drill is. we only had our fire drill
Today my English teacher gave my class a heads-up that we are supposed to be having a fire drill at some point tomorrow. This will serve as one of my state’s four required yearly fire drills. Also, my state requires a fire drill to take place within the first 10 days of instruction.
The only times it could really happen are during first or second period. This is because there are class meetings with the principal that start near the end of 2nd period, and lunch starts after that and goes through 5th period. Obviously, they aren’t going to have the drill during the meetings or lunch. Also, some Juniors and Seniors only stay for 1st-5th periods. Because of this, they can only ever have fire drills in periods 1-3, and tomorrow it will be in 1 or 2.
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Not exactly a drill, but the new school I’m going to had their system activated 3-ish times in random intervals at the end of the day. Turns out, one of the outdoor NAs is probably malfunctioning (wasn’t going off in code 3 like the other alarms, just pulsed?)
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The school ended up not doing the drill, as they couldn’t have really done it today. Remember when I said that they could have only done it in periods 1-2? Well, I forgot that there was a class meeting before mine, so the only time they could have done it would have been in the first 20 minutes of school. Obviously, that wouldn’t work. I’m thinking they probably scheduled it for sometime next week.
had an intruder drill today. sheriffs were on campus.
We had our fire drill today. Four minutes before 1st period ended, the principal made an announcement. He said, “May I have your attention please? We are going to be having a fire drill at the beginning of second period. Teachers, please go over the evacuation procedures when your students get to your second period class”. After that, I went to my second period class, which was band. On my way there, I saw the principal and some of the maintenance staff standing by the annunciator and pull station at the front door, getting ready to do the drill.
Less than a minute after the bell rang to start second period (while my teacher was in the middle of telling us about the drill), the alarm sounded. We all went outside fairly quickly. Overall, I would say this was a pretty successful drill, which is a stark contrast to the first drill last year, which was my school’s first ever fire drill:
https://forums.thefirepanel.com/t/fire-drills-severe-weather-drills-lockdowns-evacuation-drills-for-the-2024-2025-school-year/12708/18?u=aerhardt
Ahh, sweet. So the fire drill was a success? The speaker strobes should of at least doñe somethiñg.
The drill today was definitely a success. The alarm sounded properly and everyone did what they are supposed to do.
The first drill of the year last year (the one in the post that I linked), on the other hand, was a complete failure. Apparently, the FA company forgot to re-enable the Notification Appliances after they were done doing maintenance. Luckily, they fixed that within the same day and the drill was rescheduled for a week later.
ahh, gotcha. Someoñe screwed up oñ their part. lol
Badea dancing in september, had a fire drill today. My mom did a “Delayed” fire drill which is honestly stupid.
What it is.
Say the alarm goes off randomly. Everyone is to stay in the building and not to evacuate, unless told to do so. Its very stupid cuz the main office couod be in ashes therefore no one can communicate through out the school.
Yesterday (9/5/25) we had our first (and hopefully -but probably not- last) false fire alarm of the school year.
I was sitting in my English class doing work and the room was completely silent except for my teacher’s background music. The teacher had actually just left to walk down the hall to do something. All of a sudden, I heard the distinctive split-second 900hz tone that my schools system makes when it first activates. When I heard that, I looked up and I noticed the strobe starting to flash, as well as hearing the typical Siemens message with 900hz temporal tone and female voice. Immediately, we all got up (after grabbing our warm clothes from our backpacks because the windchill was roughly 35°F today) and walked towards the door. When we got the door of the classroom, our teacher got back and led us outside. We were outside in less than two minutes, and the alarm was shut off in less than 5 minutes. A few minutes after that, we were let inside just in time for the bell to ring to end that class. As I was on my way to lunch, I saw the fire department arriving. They did their formal check of the building and went on their way.
I really don’t know what happened, but I think it must have been something in the mechanical area, as I saw the firemen heading that way. Considering that the maintenance staff shut off the alarm just a few minutes after it went off, I’m thinking that they accidentally caused it from some work that they were doing.
Hopefully we don’t have a repeat of last year, when we had over 15 false alarms due to all of the construction going on and the fact that they hadn’t yet installed stoppers over the XMS-S pull stations. I hope it’s better this year now that they are mostly done with construction. This building is going to be prone to false alarms, though, as it’s a huge building with hundreds of smoke detectors, as my jurisdiction requires full smoke detector coverage in every area of educational buildings, even if they are sprinklered and wouldn’t otherwise need smoke detectors.
Honestly, I think my school should implement a standby message that plays when the system is first activated, and they could make it play the evac message if another device is activated or it has been long enough without someone addressing the situation.
Wow! My last false alarm was in 5th grade. In the cafeteria when the voice message over the two big speakers where the microphone plugged in below the stage, play a message. It was LOUD! louder than the 9237’s there!
I think your talking about the school you’re at doing like a little 2 stage thing? Your school has a lot of false alarms! My middle school had sorta a real fire/ false alarm during MY 5th grade year. I know what happened. At my middle school, there are 4 hallways. Each are straight from each other. You have the 400 hallway, 300 hallway, (Both the 300 and 400 hallway is the 6th grade hallway). The 200 hallway, (7th grade hallway), and the 100 hallway, (The 8th Grade hallway, my hallway this year. cuz I’m in 8th grade.) Anyway, we have about 3 labs there. (a lot, ik lol.) The labs are in the 300 hallway 100 hallway and 200 hallway. The alarm occurred in the 300 hallway. There was a chemistry experiment happening there. There was a mini tiny explosion that caused smoke. There were 2 smoke detectors there, along with a couple of heat detectors in the T-Bar ceiling. There are windows that are viewable through out the 300 hallway. There were 4 or 5 devices activated. The first device was a pull station and then the second after the pull station, 1 of the detector’s went off. The alarms activated and people evacuated. I heard someone attempted to use the fire extinguisher. Some kid had glued the cabinet shut. There are 2 pressurization fans on the system, maybe even more! They were active so the doors where some of the people (including the people in the lab) and the 2 or 3 classrooms in the 400 and 300 hallway had some trouble opening. There shortly, the 2nd detector in that room had activated. A little bit of smoke came out the doors, activating a beam detector near the bathroom. And then the duct detector activated last, killing all the air in the building. The fire department showed up and by the time they came, there was a small small fire they put out. They had to get a big fan to clear the smoke out. None of the windows open. (as a safety precaution), They reseted the pull station and the duct detector was cleared, therefore all air in the building returned. The smoke eventually cleared out without activating anything else. The 100 hallway, 200 hallway, 300 hallway, and 400 hallway made it back in the building after 15 minutes.
Yeah, false alarms (and real alarms) are very chaotic. My first experience was in second grade when a fire started in a library IT closet. Luckily, that room had a smoke detector in it.
Here’s what that system is like:
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In most jurisdictions it is not allowed to have an area of incident evacuation system in schools, since they are areas of education with lots of lives on the line.
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The delayed fire drill policy at our school district is very stupid. The alarm goes off, you cannot evacuate. unless told otherwise. say the main office is gone. no way of evacuating the whole school without going door to door.
My school takes it one step further by having only one building evacuate and the rest must stay inside.
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