I wonder if they are starting to announce drills only because of the cognitively inept people that may have a manic episode etc. It may not be recognized in Canada but in the US there is a medical condition they have actually made called Fire Alarm anxiety.
@@Cam.469 no but I wish I had permission to initiate a drill of course back then we didn’t have camera phones etc so I could not have put it on RU-vid. We are talking the mid to late 90s.
@@matthewphelan9288 in elementary school they were surprise drills, in middle school you didn’t know what day it was but they always did them at 1:50 pm. And in high school the assistant principal would announce that it would be at the beginning of 3th period weather permitting. We used to always joke that the building can only catch fire during 4th period and in nice weather
With fire alarms, i have developed a habit of waiting approximately 10 to 20 seconds before heading for the exit And i think there are 2 reasons for that: the college i went to between 2016 and 2018 did fire alarm tests once a week, and the alarm would sound quite a number of seconds for each test (i am pretty certain there was one time when it exceeded 20 seconds, it may have even regularly exceeded 20 seconds) And also, I don’t know about business, but schools and colleges where i live often use the fire alarm to mark the start and end of the 2 minute silence (which occurs on 11/11 at 11AM each year, and no, the 2 minute silence i am referring to has nothing to do with the twin towers, before anyone asks) And i have witnessed 3 false alarms (where i was informed as to what caused it) The first was someone spraying deodorant (which set off a smoke detector in the changing rooms, which in turn resulted in the entire school evacuating) The second was someone tripping over a bag, and set the alarm off (due to the lack of a plastic cover over the call point), and everyone had to evacuate The third was a fault in the sports hall building (at a different school to the two above), which caused the alarm to go off, i was doing work experience when this happened (so officially I wasn’t in school, but i was doing work experience with the IT tech) And with the college i went to between 2016 and 2018, there was one occurrence where the fire alarm went off, and ALL of the students (i will admit, this did include me) sat there (or in my case, stood there), as if someone had pressed pause on us, i don’t know the reason why the alarm went off (test, drill, fault, actual fire, although considering how quickly we were allowed back in, i doubt it was the latter) And there was also one time when i can only assume a member of staff heard the fault buzzer on the fire alarm panel and mistook it for the alarm going off (as an evacuation of the dining hall was started, but before i even got outside they said it was a false alarm)
In the United States, fire alarms would never be used as part of the bell system. My school does weekly tests that occur at 7 AM on sundays and last for about 30 seconds.
@@dale4231 as far as i know, schools where i live that do have class change bells use the class change bells to signal the 2 minute silence, but with the schools that don’t, they use the fire alarm And the fire alarm tests at the college, throughout the entire afternoon they would be testing the fire alarm, the first year i went to that college, they did these tests on Thursdays (a day i was in), and the second year i went to that college the tests were done on Wednesdays (which was a day i was in for that college year, the first year i was in Mon Thu Fri, the second year i was in Mon Tue Wed)
Your right about the school telling the students. They shouldn't tell them because they need a reaction and not just know. Because at our schools in New Zealand, nobody but the principal knows about the fire drill. Also what were you doing with those fireworks at the end of the vid?
I agree. The fireworks were just some people at Halloween shooting Roman candles at each other so I thought I'd film it with the drone because it looked cool
Nice ! Where I live in Belgium, schools have 3 obligatory fire drills per year and the first one is announced to both staff and students. The second one is only announced to staff, and the third one (plus any optional extra) are unannounced. I think it's a nice compromise to do it that way
I totally aggree! They should not be alerted about the drill! It should be made so they believe its real and evacuate at real speed and stop talking! In my school (UK) year 7 or grade 8 get told where all the above including teachers say that we are expecting one either that day or that week and it also makes it less exiting and serious
At 5:11 to 5:18...don't you know that it is a bad idea to put a horn/strobe in the bathroom? Don't you know that the horn/strobe will echo around in the bathroom really bad?
@@nics-systems-electric When I see a horn/strobe stuck in the bathroom out in public, I like to laugh at it and joke about it because I know that it is going to be REALLY LOUD (you ought to hear it in the bathroom) the next time someone burns toast or popcorn. It's taboo! Restrooms typically have ceramic tile, floor tile flooring, metal stalls, and glass mirrors and stuff, making the bathroom VERY acoustically vibrant. You light one of those little fire crackers off in the bathroom, things will get a bit spicy. What I typically like to do is to put a remote strobe in the bathroom. Some restroom doors are fire rated. If that is the case, or if the restroom is outside like in your case, I like to put chime/strobes in the bathroom. Now, I don't know what other people do but I typically prefer chime/strobe in the general restroom area and remote strobes in the toilet stalls. That way, it won't go echoing all around.
my school has alarms in the bathroom.. and what makes it even worse is that I have Fire Drill Anxiety and plus they're SpectraAlert's too which are very loud to my ears
@@moonlight_trains1 I sometimes wonder if the siren type alarms that are used where i live are better than the “shriek” type that are used in the US and Canada
Should automatic sliding doors keep open if fire alarm sounds in order to make a evacuation passage without any barriers? Saw some other buildings, their automatic doors open and stay open when fire alarm sounds.
This got me thinking. Here in California, a huge majority of schools have outdoor hallways, so the classrooms are spread about multiple buildings. When the fire alarm goes off, the entire school’s system goes off. Alarms are inside and outside. Would you think this is reasonable, or do you think it would be pretty excessive? Would you think it make more sense for them to only go off in the alarmed building? The existing system would be better for smaller elementary schools with buildings close together, but what about a high school where it can be up to four minutes walk one end to the other?
I think it makes sense to evacuate all buildings makes it simpler for fire department responding to already know all buildings are evacuated and to not have individual addresses to respond to and having separate systems and separate accounts for each system
@@nics-systems-electric Thanks for your insight! That makes a lot of sense. I never had a problem with how it works myself, though I'm sure some teachers weren't happy about it lol.
