So this happened at two different schools in my district AES and AMS.
AES
So at AES, I was in the cafeteria eating my lunch. It was 5th grade (me) and Kindergarden. I was taking a bite out of my sandwich and then I hear a message playing over the speakers in the cafeteria. At first I thought it was the staff getting on the microphone, but no. This was different. I see the Simplex 4904-9137’s flashing and I hear the Simplex 4903-9237’s in the distance. We didn’t know what to do. We weren’t told we were having a fire drill. And it was August, so the school year just begun. I then see my assistant principal walking in the cafeteria ushering us out of the cafeteria. Luckily where I sat to my right was the exit. It took me to the front of the school. The cafeteria is on its own floor, then the entire school is on the 2nd floor. I remember asking him if this was a drill, because he would tell me none of the less. (I was friends with him, I knew him sorta personally.) He said this is NOT a drill and there was a real emergency. So I took his word and left using the exit. I don’t remember if I carried my stuff or not. I remember it was raining heavily but luckily there was an awning so we were dry. The fire station was across from the school so they were there in an instant. For some reason I had a little mental breakdown because my mom worked at the school. We were clear to go back in the building. I remember one kid going out in the parking lot getting soaked. I was about to but we were going in. We went into the main lobby doors. (Where the main office was.) I saw my mom and then I think we went back to the cafeteria to grab our stuff and finish up our food then we head back to our classrooms. I saw on the annunciator there was two troubles. The plant manager scrolled through it. I saw alarm disable and dialer disable. We had a little chat about drills. (there was a bunch of what ifs.) The cause of the alarm was a dirty detector in a classroom.
This was something I did not experience the alarm it self. So let me tell you what happened. So there was an 8th grade STEM class using the STEM lab and they had a little explosion. Either a
a smoke detector got set off or a pull station was pulled. I don’t know the exact story but people thought a kid pulled it. Anyway I gotta ask a high schooler for what they remember.