Today we had a fire drill during 7th period (Principles of Entrepreneurship). This is without a doubt the earliest in the month a fire drill has ever been conducted in my experience. They are usually conducted in the middle of a month. The earliest tornado drill was also on the 3rd. The earliest lockdown drill was supposed to be on the 3rd of a month as well, but it was rescheduled to the 4th.
Today we had a tornado drill during 2nd period (AP US History.) I had been anticipating this the whole entire month since the 1st semester tornado drill is usually in November. Unfortunately, we were taking an MCQ quiz today, so the teacher had to give us 5 extra minutes after the bell.
Where I go to school in SE-WI, we had a fire drill yesterday. The school has an EST 4 system with ceiling speaker strobes and in the new addition they have the brand new GENESIS LED G4S speaker strobes that are insanely bright , in fact I was about 500 feet outside from where I could see the G4S brightly see the strobe flashing in sync with other strobes in other rooms, even across the building.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nVsYsGjp68
We had a fire drill today.
Just had a fire drill yesterday, the system is now fixed! All is normal now.
Todays dismissal was a little weird. A couple minutes before dismissal, They made an announcement that they would be setting the fire alarm off and for us to be dismissed when the alarm sounds. Unfortunately for my ears, I was in the basement section with the 4903 electronic horns. LOUD. why they did this? I don’t know. My only guess is testing. I did get a video that I’ll put a link to below.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FvVGJ-C0MKHvvx4n9y0ly7PDOmQqRQFK/view?usp=drivesdk
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Something about that to me screams “violation of procedure” if they did a “fire drill” as part of dismissal rather than as its own specific event.
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Maybe. Section 14.7.2.2 of NFPA 101 allows schools to replace up to four of the required fire drills with AHJ-approved training/practice programs, provided that at least four regular fire drills are conducted first. Depending on the jurisdiction, the climate, and when the school year started, the drill may have been approved under that section. This school seems to be using that section of NFPA 101 in a different way.
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Hopefully they don’t count it as a fire drill. I think it only would be a violation if they actually count it towards their required number of drills.
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After thinking about it for a bit, they may have just been doing testing of some sorts
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That was my thought, but I don’t know why they would do it at dismissal time instead of waiting an hour or two for the building to clear out first or doing it early in the morning.
hey so we had our january fire drill wedsnday
Just had a fire drill, siemens voice evac. Weird thing, they didn’t turn off the devices until we got in the classrooms.
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My school does fire drills unannounced to students but they announce the teachers in advance, then the fire alarms sound (in this case they are assorted edwards bells) in continuous, and everyone leaves via the exit closest to them. Principal comes out to give the all clear signal. Panel gets reset before the all clear signal.
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The fire alarm panel in my school is an EST Quickstart QS4.
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Cool system, welcome to the forums.