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I was in detention, and the fire alarm went off. I made a comment about not knowing they did fire drills after school. The teacher who was supervising detention that day was already packing her stuff and says, "We don't. I think this one's real." She was right. Someone had left some food cooking too long in the teachers' lounge and forgot about it. Thankfully, the only casualty was a microwave.
Lol
Goodbye microwave
Press “F” to pay respects (to the microwave)
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On 9/11 I saw the 2nd plane strike on tv. The teachers tried to push us out in time to miss it. As an airport manager's son, my life changed more than most.
We were on the Pacific coast, by then 9/11 already happened and I was far too young to understand. But I do remember seeing the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster televised at school. It had to have been after the fact because Feb 1 2003 was on a Saturday.
@@AnonEMus-cp2mn Same with 9/11: I was asleep when the events began. My brother called us and I got to see the second plane hit.
6:52
A Japanese exchange student told us the earthquake started right when he had kicked a soccer ball, and for a moment he had thought “HOW HARD WAS I KICKING?!?”
(Kicks soccer ball)
(Earthquake)
"聖なる-"
Edit: quotations and thx Google translate
Bro is 1 kick man
Bet that man thought he was god for a sec
Bro thought he was the main anime protagonist 💀💀
@@mihaionyx4603
Maybe in a comedy
i'm in eighth grade and someone recently made a bomb threat. what's worse is that the school let our parents know about the threat AT THE MINUTE THAT THE THREAT SAID THE BOMB WOULD GO OFF.
idiots. YOU HEAR ME, WHY AT THE F**KING MINUTE THAT THE THREAT SAID THAT THE BOMB WOULD GO OFF! IT'S THEIR STUDENTS, THEIR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE SCHOOL DURATION! WHY!? Dang. Those parents were probably pissed off.
@@dacomplex1Yuhanhan.hanna-Xia yeah my mom was so ticked
Kaboom
Last year was my first ever lockdown experience. Weird thing is that we just continued doing work, as we were in a tech centre and were pretty hard to see from any windows.
@@Salithin yeah, we didn’t have to get up or hide or turn off the lights at all either
I am an educator. Fire drills do not teach people to react to a fire in schools. It teaches people to ask if there is a fire drill today.
But the boiler room went up on my second week of teaching. I was in the cafeteria, the only teacher with 300 kids. I got everyone on the blacktop lined up by homeroom.
My secondary school and 6th form (ages 11-18) would do the required drills but any time there was a false alarm as soon as they knew it was a false alarm would send everyone back even if the evacuation was half done (eg students where still walking up to the fields)
yeah, honestly I'd rather they just have a school assembly with a fire marshal instructing us how to do it. Tell everyone that running and panicking only causes more injury, and what to do in a fire drill. That's what we need to know, not how to walk out some doors and go to the field. We can do that if we we're told, not everyone knows how to remain calm and exit without trampling others
The smart thing would be to come on the PA system immediately before and state that we will be conducting a fire drill. You know, just like the emergency broadcasting service says, "This is a test. This is only a test." At least that people will KNOW it's real because there's no announcement.
Do they not? Do they not do the whole thing of Be Deafened By Alarm Even If You're HoH, Leave Bags, Pile Up Outside In The Playground/Carpark And Wait?
Only in my last school did alarms actually go off and they even had a talking one which was amazing to me and much nicer than the screaming things.
But you're saying that my cousin's little daughters aren't going to be taught any of that?
@@WardenWolf my school actually does that for drills. Because it's so big I think. About 2 big buildings with 3 floors (+ 2/3 smaller buildings for stuff like Gym and Preforming Arts). When doing drills they announce they are about to do a drill, if it's a evacuation (fire) they pick one building and notify everyone about which building will evacuate. The only flaw in this system is they choose the same building almost all the time.
One year in high school, during lunch time, the fire alarm went off. I expect a message to go through telling us that it’s an accident or something, because it’s the middle of winter, so I go to my locker, and as I’m taking out my winter jacket, a teacher passes by the lockers and tells me and the other students that decided it was not worth going outside without a coat that it’s not a drill and we need to exit the school. It was about -20˚C that day, the majority of the students did not have coats, some were even wearing their PE uniform, which is a t-shirt and shorts. The teachers encouraged us to huddle up to keep warm, some went to grab blankets from in their cars, I had passed my school’s hoodie to someone bc at least I had my coat and I was with a group of friends and friends of friends and we were all close doing a circle trying to keep warm, my coat was opened to try to cover as much as possible the other people who were jacket-less. We spent about 20 minutes outside before we were allowed to go back inside. Some students got frostbites, but otherwise everyone was. The period after lunch was spent warming up and making sure all students were still there, many had left to restaurants around the school or just left home and also making sure everyone was ok, the rest of the afternoon was uneventful, watched a movie, no teacher taught us anything.
The culprits? A few first years who thought it would be a good idea to tie toilet paper to a sprinkler in the boy’s locker room and set it on fire. How did they get caught? They posted a video of themselves online doing it and they ended up on a local meme page. They got suspended
I would have grabbed my coat anyway, im already at my locker. And if I didn't have a coat, I'm getting in my car at least until everyone goes back inside. 💀
That happened to me except it was a lot scarier cause kids ended up in the hospital and it was CO2. No coats in below zero weather and people passé blankets around (which I was lucky enough to receive one) and we got bused to the community center. We even made National news (US). The school decided to bring in CO2 detectors for peace of mind.
I had something that could be considered a “not a drill moment” happen to me during high school. Some context before I begin: my high school had two different types of fire alarms. One of them is high pitched and extremely loud, and they always go off first, due to the way the system is configured. The quieter, lower-pitch ones go off only moments after those do. I’m in health class (a week or so after we did our last fire drill of the year). Suddenly, I hear the high-pitch ones start echoing down the hall from where they were located, and I remember saying, “Oh no…” just as the low pitched ones right outside the classroom door begin to sound. In a split second, everyone is lined up at the door, and we quickly make our way outside, because we all know this is NOT A DRILL. My health classroom evacuates by a door that leads right out the front of the school, and only two minutes after we make it out, fire trucks begin screaming down the road towards us at top speed. That was the moment that confirmed that we were experiencing something REAL this time. But, after standing out there for a solid half hour (luckily it was early summer, so it was nice and warm outside) we were told to go back inside and resume normal activities. Except, the rest of that day was anything but normal. Instead of sending us home, they severely shortened the remaining periods, to the point where each one was no longer than fifteen minutes-when they’re usually 40 apiece. I still don’t know exactly what caused the alarm to go off to this day. I heard rumors that it was a teacher who accidentally bumped a pull station and set it off, or that the chemistry teacher royally screwed up and made a bit _too_ much flame with an experiment. But that day will go down in history as the only time I’ve ever been through a REAL fire evacuation while still in school. I also went through something similar at Walmart once, when somebody turned the wrong valve handle in the garden center-setting off the sprinklers instead of turning on the garden hose. And then it happened again at an antique store I was at, when someone sprayed air freshener in the bathroom, and it set off the smoke detector. Luckily, the employees at Walmart told us at the door that everything was fine and that we didn’t have to leave just before we walked through it. And at the antique store, the air freshener situation was apparently not a first for them, because they came around and told everyone to stay put and that this happens at least once a week there. Better put some photo-electric smoke detectors in those bathrooms (instead of the ionizing ones), people! Or better yet, don’t put air freshener in there in the first place! And as for Walmart, they just need to make those two valves more distinct, so people stop confusing them.
3:40 When I went to the Holocaust Museum in 2013 in DC they did the same thing. They gave us little booklets on our people, which each page corresponding to a floor in the building so as we ascended through the exhibits, we could read along to the personal impact each stage of the Holocaust had on our person. I got an older woman who, well... didn't make it. Made everything hit that much harder.
Yeah I went there recently like month ago so I remember, that place was really well done, such a memento!
I went there as well a couple months ago, my person survived (and is still living today!) but I read another person's in my family. She was gassed at 12. Disgusting.
@@TheGreatKingOfNorway the badness of the holocaust....
yeah. I took a semester class on it not too long ago. It's truly a horrifying thing. It was hard not to cry watching the live footage
rotting bodies lying in the open, surrounded by rotting bodies still standing. It's truly tragic what happened, not only to the jewish population, but the disabled, the lgbt community, the gypsies, and many other minority groups
I was working at a metal fabrication shop when someone announced that an aircraft just hit the world trade center. I continued working until I was at a point where I could stop for a few minutes. I went upstairs to watch the television - my boss, and his boss was up there too. I started watching just in time to see the second airplane hit. That's the moment we all knew this was no accident. I remained for a couple minutes, but then pushed myself back downstairs and back to work. That afternoon, I watched everyone around me getting all emotional. I realized then that if the whole country was reacting as my coworkers, this would end badly for everyone.
And it did.
Story 12 hit me hard because I lost family in the 2011 tsunami, I still hear the tsunami sirens in my head almost 12 years later
I'd have to say for me was a couple years back, (2020 or 2021) when Oregon was on fire for about a week. It was surreal going to bed one night, being able to look across the river, then waking up not being able to see 20 feet from your back window. Looked like silent hill for a while. It was also nerv wracking looking at the fire watch updates online.
Re: Story 13: I was also 15 on 9/11. In retrospect, I have always felt like that was the day my childhood really ended. I could no longer ignore politics. On September 10th, voting seemed like something I would worry about in three years. By September 12th, it was a responsibility I had to seriously prepare for.
Back when this happened i was very young, like 8 or 9. I remember that day still the anger coursing through my veins that day was untold. But that day i vowed to do whatever i can to help. These days search and rescue is my blood. I don't get paid and don't need to. As long as im out there i'm happy. I dont want paid, i think it would kill what it means to me inside. Everytime i got a 3am call in the middle of the night i put my boots on, grabbed my pack and ran for the door. No matter if i was comfortable or hungover or what, there was someone out there who needed me and i wasn't going to sit by anymore. Serving my country's people since the age of 12 in a support role, first responder at 15...i think that day drove home the reality of this world. And i wont stop standing in it's way.
I was 14 when this happened. Can still remember the day vividly. Walked home from secondary school or high school for any American readers out there. Came home and walked into the living room and BOOM! There on the tv was footage of the world trade centre on fire. My mum and dad were standing there watching it. That was the day my childhood ended for me.
@@hannahmabbott7370 I found out during my second class of the day. I'm from Chicago. In New York, it was nine-something in the morning, but still only eight-something for me. American high schools start ridiculously early, and by second period, I still wasn't totally awake. Second period was health class. I remember that distinctly. My teacher would start every class by saying, "It's a great day to be alive!" He said it on the morning of 9/11, not having heard the news yet. Or...if he had, it was only after the first plane hit, and it was still believed to be some kind of horrific accident. As the details trickled in, the day's lesson plan was abandoned. Most teachers didn't bother with their lesson plans that day. Just turned on the television sets in every classroom and sat in silence.
11:10 Buoy is from Dutch and pronounced as 'boy'. US English!
I was awakened by the timer on my bedroom radio clicking on to an obviously shaken DJ trying to read the news. I have a LOT of family in NYC, several who then worked downtown. I remember screaming "TURN AROUND!" at a reporter onscreen who hadn't yet noticed the first tower starting to fall behind him, and more emails & long distance phone calls in 12 hours than in the previous 12 months. The only time I left my house was a quick run to the bank to take out a few hundred dollars in cash "just in case" -- and I was there longer than intended because the tellers were only able to get their news secondhand from customers and hadn't had any updates for almost an hour. Dad was in the U.S. Foreign Service for decades & I'd lived on a couple of other continents while growing up... and in the space of a day any and all sense of security at being Stateside was destroyed. The world truly changed that day.
June 5, 1995, when the Abraham Lincoln collided with the Sacramento, I was on the Abraham Lincoln.
There is always a drill at the completion of the underway replenishment exercise, with alarms and everything. Those of us who were below decks were unaware that it wasn't a drill until we felt the impact.
The impact wasn't huge, but it was a memorable moment in my life.
In 5th grade I have a very vivid memory of there being an actual Tornado and Fire simultaneously. I distinctly remember the announcement after the fire alarm went off telling the kingergarteners to move to a different location away from the cafeteria. I now can't stand thunderstorms of any kind.
I work for an oil/gas company, deploying vessels globally. One day I was called in to the office late at night. There had been an incident on one of the vessels. The office has a meeting room that is also set up to be used for emergencies like these. There’s a special whiteboard there, used for recording timelines. When I arrived at the office, I saw the board was in use for the first time. I never expected to see it in use. It felt unreal. The incident resulted in casualties (I cannot say how many, as it could identify the vessel), but thankfully the numbers were incredibly low.
I was playing video games when I was 16 and suddenly the rumble effect was a big to realistic. It didn’t really register as to what was going on until I heard my mom tell me to get under a doorway. It was an earthquake, which was weird cuz we live on the east coast.
Doorways aren’t sturdy. Im assuming your mom didn’t know at the time but being under a doorway during an earthquake is really unsafe
You live in the east coast??
I have a humorous kind of reverse story.
My college dorm was notorious for jokesters throwing aerosol cans down the incinerator chute to set off the smoke alarm. They always waited until midnight or later, catching residents in bed asleep, or an unlucky few in the showers! Needless to say, we residents were very familiar with the fire alarm & what to do.
There were some administrative offices on the second floor; & the campus library extended off the first floor/ground floor lobby in the back. One day, during the *afternoon,* the campus had a drill, catching clueless staff in their offices wondering what was going on! They're standing around in front of the building with all of us old hands, hearing about the late night alarms for the first time.
The problem with so many "smoke only" fires at night is that I grew blase, taking my sweet time down the steps. One night, I opened my door into a smoke filled hallway! Never flew down those steps so fast in my life!
For a few months one year, our campus hosted a bunch of foreign students who were studying somewhere off campus. They'd just needed housing. Guess what happened.
The nightly alarm goes off, & we all obediently traipse outside to wait on the fire department. Every single foreign student stayed inside, sticking their heads out the windows to gawk at us! (Apparently, being non college students made them impervious to smoke & fire?) 🤔
I was in fourth grade with a giant storm outside (this was in SD) We were being seated for an end of year assembly. When we were getting seated the principal announced that there were four tornadoes about 10 miles away and heading for us. The tornadoes striked houses about Half a mile away but missed the school We stayed about 15 minutes after school ended to make sure everything passed. It was prettey scary.
Just last year, a football game had just concluded, I and the rest of the marching band were packing up the truck when two loud pops go off. A teacher I had the year before who I knew for being very silly was suddenly screaming for all of us to get into the gymnasium as soon as possible as another pop goes off. I left my little brothers behind because the coach wasn't letting me turn back around, so the 7 minutes they were missing I was pacing and crying begging them to let me go back and find them. Eventually my mom shows up with the both of them along with my best friend who was on the phone panicked. The other team didn't leave yet either, so it was two schools all crammed in a middle school gymnasium for about two hours until the gunman was taken care of and the scene was cleaned up. Will definitely be one of my most oddest marching band moments.
Why wouldn’t he let you turn back around?
Why not let you turn around, either they are: stupid; scared; unknowing; or a mix. Edit: spelling.
I was doing a kind of internship at an elderly care facility with two other girls my age when the fire alarm went off. We didn't know it was the fire alarm and looked around in confusion. We were sitting in a room alone, right next to hallway full of apartments were the elderly lived.
Someone comes out and asks what they're supposed to do. At that moment, someone who actually worked there shouted there was a fire and to evacuate. As we grab our laptops (because there was no way we were leaving those), one of us sniffed the air and we could smell the smoke, despite seeing nothing.
We got to the hallway and realised no one was exiting their appartment, so the three of us walked up and down that hallway, ringing doorbells and telling people to evacuate. This whole time, we could smell the smoke and worried that perhaps the fire was in one of the apartments. People were going towards the stairs with their walkers and canes, and we did our best to help them down with the nurses.
At one point, there was a man in a wheelchair, with a nurse next to him on the phone with a colleague, asking how in the world she was supposed to get the man down without the elevator.
We get outside, and there's already several firetrucks. The fire was apparently very small, and on the roof, so no one was 'in immediate danger'. It was on the other side of the building we were on, but right next to the ventilation system, which is why we could smell it.
No one was hurt and the elderly were allowed to stay in a nearby chapel while the firefighters cleared the building just to be safe.
A real none-issue in the end, but it was terrifying in that moment, not knowing if people were hurt or worse.
A little bit ago someone pulled the fire alarm at my highschool. We all were upset until we found out it was a legit fire. Someone had set the toilet paper on fire in the boys bathroom. Today, that same someone made a threat stating he's gonna shoot up the school. Staying home today.
story sixteen reminds me that one of the pool change rooms at a school I went to was once a bomb shelter. my mother had gone to the same school and one of her teachers had been there long enough that she remembered it was where they were to go if there was a bombing in wwii. thankfully never needed to do that, but there were submarines in the seas off the state I live in, and actually came in close enough to land that you could see them.
also during my time at that school there was a severe windstorm with regular winds, not gusts, of 90km/h+. then they told my class to go shelter in the classroom with the smashed door to the outside and had the roof peeling off. and then i had to walk home lol
Once we had like a full on lockdown and my teacher thought it was a drill because someone was seen like robbing a restaurant across the street
In middle school we were evacuated because there was an antifreeze leak. Kids were passing out, and we stayed outside for the rest of the day. Luckily the weather was okay.
In elementary school, there was so much snow on the roof that people reported hearing cracks from the ceiling. We stayed in the high school gym for the rest of the day.
I was at work, and from my office I can't hear the PA announcements that are usually given before alarm tests and such. The fire alarm went off, and assuming it was just a test I ignored it to begin with. But the alarm continued, and then I saw the CEO motioning me to get out as he evacuated. Turns out there was indeed a real fire in the building, and we all stood outside as the fire truck pulled up to put it out!
I have 3 stories from 4th-5th grade. Only one of them is a "this is not a drill" story, though, but the other 2 are similar.
The "this is not a drill" story was just after the buses left the school at dismissal time. I was on the bus when this happened (this was in 5th grade) but within 10-20 feet of our school, a man held out a gun at a woman who was walking infront of the man, so the school went into Shelter In Place. The man did not shoot the woman.
The next one also happened in 5th grade. It was dismissal time when all of the sudden the dismissal bell was interrupted by the fire alarm. All the buses left while the fire trucks were responding. My bus went the way where we could see the fire trucks btw.
This one is from 4th grade. So close to the end of the school day, a 2nd grader pulled the fire alarm (he got away with it btw) so we all rushed to the buses 5 minutes early. I remember seeing a fire truck pull up to one of the 2 Special Education Buses (the first one already left). The other Special Education Bus then left, and then the bus in front of my bus literally couldn't get past the fire truck. That's all I can remember.
If your dorm only has one fire alarm in the middle of the night you are super lucky
Was at work in the city center of Christchurch NZ in February 2011. M6.3 earthquake directly under the city. The shaking was so violent, the ground itself was measured to be accelerating up & down at up to 2.2g - over twice the acceleration from Earth's gravity. Predictably, devastation everywhere, buildings destroyed, 185 fatalities. A day no drill could prepare you for.
I have a story! So I was in second grade and it was a few days after we learned about school lock downs. So when the loud speaker came on we all thought it was a drill. Now I just want to make this clear. Our teacher actually had a hockey stick to protect us. So we got freaked out when she grabbed it stood at the door and held the door shut. Remember I was in second grade so I was scared! I remember my best friend teasing me that they might jump through the window. Although it was a joke I clenched up more. But then we heard police sirens. Then dogs going through the halls searching for a gun. So about after four hours of kids joking quietly then thinking it was real we finally got to go home. So it turns out that a kid decided that it would be funny to call 911 and say a gun was in the school. And you can check if my story was real.
I survived a "mass shooting" in Boone, NC after my neighbor's son killed both of them and then the first 3 responding officers. Technically I was considered a hostage. Because my house was right next door and he kept taking pot shots out into the neighborhood, the cops couldn't create a perimeter close enough to evacuate us until after dark, which was 10 hours later. Once the sun had set, they ushered us to our own vehicles and took us to the "staging area". I've never seen more police officers in my life, even neighboring states sent units, easilly over 1,000. I got "interviewed" by multiple law enforcement officers and a couple of news crews. I eventually left to go stay with family in Charlotte, where I had recently moved.
To be completely honest, I've shot a man before, in self-defense, but I've never heard people die until then (in my case my attacker survived his 3 .22lr caliber gunshot wounds). One of the first 3 officers took about 2 hours to bleed out and he called out a lot in that time, he spoke about his family, he spoke to god, he called for help, and towards the end he called for his mother.
That still haunts me to this day, me and my ex-GF (I was just visiting to get my things when this happened) keeping our heads low, beneath window level, while we could hear a man slowly dieing. It was truley horrific and tragic, because no-one could save him, and he knew it, you could hear it in his voice.
Eventually, after I left, the gunman commited suicide, I strongly suspect hearing one of his victims slowly dieing on his porch contributed to that decision.
The shittiest part of it all was how my actual GF at the time accused me, when I got back, of cheating on her and being gone too long. I didn't sleep that night, not until the situation was completely resolved. It was rough to say the least,and I'll never forget it.
I've lived a rather storied existence, I was also involved in the death of a rockstar while working as a pharmacy technician, and I survived a terrible high-speed interstate roll-over car accident when I was in middle school because I was "involuntarily ejected" through the passenger's window on the 3rd roll. I've honestly lived a lot for someone only 29 years old.
well this is gonna get dark
I'm in lunch when my principal says over the loudspeaker: This is a lockdown. We eat silently until the monitor says to get under our tables. I had been thinking 'well, ill just stay quiet' then 'omg what is happening'. Turns out some kid brought a bullet to school. There was a SWAT team here!
wow... some people are dumb. just dont bring live munitions to school. who'dve thought.
i sound really stupid for saying this, but whats so bad about bringing a bullet?
@@watchmychannelorelsei know right its just a bullet its not like they also brought a gun
I used to work at a big blue-and-yellow store known for its oddly named assemble-it-yourself furniture. The store had literally just been built, and many of the staff (me included) now owned hardhats, safety vests, and steel-toed boots because we were already setting the place up while construction was finished -- so we got to see how the place was built. The majority of the "building" is actually a metal framework with big plastic and/or metal panels snapped into place to create the outer walls, i.e., not exactly a bomb shelter. We weren't open too many months before all kinds of tornado warnings popped up for the area, and suddenly the fire alarms went off and a manager began making PA announcements that a tornado had been sighted in the area and everyone had to take shelter in the parking garage beneath the building. Aside from marveling at how many customers had to practically have their hands pried off their carts of merchandise, all I could think of was that we had to fit a couple of hundred people up against the ONE big structural concrete wall under the building in a parking garage that was completely open on 2 sides (and mostly open on a 3rd), all "sheltered" by only the concrete floor above our heads because the building essentially holding it all in place was basically thin plastic panels on an open framework. We don't get a lot of tornadoes in the area so it only happened once (and the "sighted" tornado turned out to be an over-excited caller to one of the local news stations, who rightfully immediately contacted the authorities with the info)... but I never looked at that building the same way again.
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About 7 years ago the fire alarm went off in school. We were sent out thinking it was a drill when all the teachers were talking and sent us off school premises. While leaving I saw a police car and a fire engine outside. Someone had cold called the school threatening that they had a bomb. We also once had a criminal on the run break into our school to get away from the police. We had security guards escorting us of the site.
About ten years I worked as a caregiver in a nursing home that specialized in taking care of people with dementia (think Alzheimer's.) It was the middle of tornado season in the Midwest. We had a special radio that broadcasted news, watches, and warnings that we'd been listening to all evening as we'd heard several tornado watches were in place throughout the area. About an hour before I was supposed to go home, it happened. A tornado was sighted not far from our facility. The place had no basement (safest place during a tornado,) so we did the next best thing. We got all our residents up out of bed and into the interior halls and closed all the bedroom doors (to prevent glass from being blown into the hall in the event we were hit. Then we sat there with our radios and waited. The worst part? Trying to explain to a bunch of very confused elders with memory loss and other dementia related issues WHY we had woken them up in the middle of the night and were making them stay in the hallway for what they thought was no apparent reason. Poor folks, half of them did not even remember what a tornado was, let alone why it was so dangerous- and they were cranky! To make matters worse, the same people kept having to be told again five minutes later because they forgotten already what we'd just told them. Luckily, though, the tornado passed by us without harm to our facility, the warning was cleared, and we were able to let them all go back to sleep.
Once, we were just walking outside from recess to our portable. The door was locked so someone left to ask our teacher to unlock it. He came back and told us all to go to the cafeteria. We thought our teacher just didn't see the time because our recess/lunch was over and we were supposed to have class. After a few minutes, our teacher came and told us that there was a shooter in the area and that we have to all go to the cafeteria to be safe. Thankfully, the shooter was in another part of the city the whole time.
being late for class is a “THIS IS NOT A DRILL” situation
25 plus years ago i was at a hotel watching die hard 2. At the end of the movie a plane explodes. At that moment the fire alarms at the hotel start going off. I couldnt tell if it was a sound effect in the movie or what. Come to find out there was a firefighters convention and some of them got drunk and started pulling all the alarms. The timing was impressive.
Whoa
My husband was in the military at fort hood and I was sitting at the food court on base one day, going over some legal paperwork. I remembered I had to run to the commissary. I needed to get some milk. Suddenly we were told that everyone needed to evacuate the building. I ran outside with a bunch of other shoppers and saw that there were all kinds of fire trucks and military police and even a b0m6 squad by the food court. I couldn't believe what was going on! I asked someone and they said that there was a b0m6 in the food court. I was freaked out because I had just been in there. It wasn't until later when I was watching the news that I realized what had happened. The news said it was a false alarm and that it was just a briefcase full of legal paperwork that someone left on the seat and not a b0m6. Yeah, you guessed it. I had forgotten my briefcase when I ran to the commissary! I had to go to the military police department to retrieve it! I was so embarrassed!
At school as a freshman, we had a lockdown phase 3
Phase 3 means someone is on campus
I was like psshh. Until I heard banging and gunshots
I was freaked out afterwards and luckily the military was there that way (for a career event)
No one was hurt thankfully
Someone was stabbed on campus but nobody took it seriously
As a sophomore, we had a bomb threat and we had to stay in classrooms. Got yelled at by our teacher
It was a suspicious package we had. Helicopters and everything.
We didn't get to home
And then we had a actual fire drill
Someone set the bathroom on fire and the school was set on fire.
We were to evacuate and nobody watched us high schoolers so most of us skipped for the rest of the day and just chilled.
We started making jokes about someone having a flaming shit or eating too much Taco Bell. And then the fire department got involved and we were told to go back to class but most of us ended up skipping.
When I was a junior, we had a severe storm so badly you couldn't stand without struggling.
I was skipping class and enjoyed it and scared for my life
And when I was a senior, we had a real lock down, we were at the gym. My friends and I were scared and even made a fun for it for the football fields
Most of us were running and skipped to stay with each other and skipped the following day
We had several shooting threats and assault on campus.
In my freshman year, later that year we had a chemical leak near our school because a gas tank set on fire very close to our high school
We were scared shit less. Me and my friend walked home and that sucked .
In elementary school, I had a tornado drill (Grew up in Texas, sucks with weather)
We had red bells specifically for tornados and we had to get text books and stuff we can use for our backs
The power went out and was out for weeks.
Trees and roofs were broken
Doors were broken, we were elementary school kids making a run for it to the smallest rooms with no windows (had huge windows in my elementary school)
We had to huddle and hide. We cried in fear and teachers had to keep everyone calm
Really sucked
When I worked at the bakery, someone was stabbed and we went to shut down in the grocery store. We were scared shit less.
Two stories:
A hurricane called Hurricane Zeta hit my neighborhood. I wasn’t alive for Katrina, but it was the first hurricane (that I remember) and worst thing I ever experienced. I think our neighbors/parent’s friends came over for a drink and stuff like they normally do, then we got word. We had no basement, so we hid in the center of our house. No major damage to anything except loss of a few fence gates. We had no power for a good few days so we spent a good bit of time at my friends house right down the street, with their generator.
This next story was my brother, when he was in upper elementary, they had an actual alarm, first and only one in that school’s history. A gas tank or something leaked I think, and they had to evacuate the kids. Apparently they sat outside in the boiling heat for 3 entire hours. The school didn’t blow up and I think they went home early.
I was once chilling in class in 3rd grade and we had a huge hill with snakes in it, near a fire zone. Fire alarm blares and we're all scared and frightened at the weird timing. (usually it happens at a sharp time like 9:55 or something) We walk out to see a HUGE FIRE on the snake hill, bare yards away from 3 other classrooms. We escaped to the field, since the place we usually had, the garden, was too close. Fire department came after almost an hour of standing.
I like how it said school/work while many are not at school or work including the first one
Was working on a construction site. Guys on the ground started yelling out "gas, get out" or something. Start smelling natural gas within seconds. Within 30 seconds of the guy yelling to us, a big alarm starts up. We were on the second floor and an excavator trying to dig to put in water lines had hit a natural gas line. They had 2 sets of plans of underground piping and they were not aligning with each other. They assumed one was right and it was wrong and the other was right. Wasted hours standing around after the evacuation.
I love how some of these stories are a false alarm
Just this school year, first day of finals, I was taking my math final (and the computers had been glitching for, like, 30 minutes, so I hadn't taken any of the test yet). The entire school starts to smell like gas about five minutes after my test started working. Whole school gets evacuated, we stand in winter weather for an entire hour, only to learn it was a Starbucks being built nearby and a worker hit a gas line. I was actually so mad, and I would have just walked home, but I didn't want to miss out on any finals if the school did end up keeping us there for the rest of the day.
Once in my school they called the fire department for a water leak :|
I always thought shooter drills should be re-done, after all, the person doing it literally was there doing the drills with you, so he definitely knows where you’d hide, they should do the drills normal, but in a real encounter, they should hide in a different area.
It was our first day of freshman year at lunch time when the fire alarm went off. We thought it was weird that they'd hold a fire drill on the first day of school but whatever so we start heading out. The intercom goes on and the principal tells us that it's not a drill and that there was an actual fire and that we needed to stay calm. We were all outside in the parking lot a little shaken but fine. We were speculating of what happened when one of the teachers walkie talkies went off and we heard what happened. The tater tots caught on fire.
i love hearing him breath after every line
That one school's poor contingency plan for a bomb threat reminds me of my elementary school's plan for a fire. The plan was to lead all the students out of the building and wait outside on the grass field. The grass field was enclosed by a 10-foot tall chain-link gate (it was tall to prevent students from skipping class) and, since this was in a desert area, the grass was also always extremely dry. The gate had no entry/exit doors. The only way out of the school was to go through the buildings. So, if the buildings caught fire, we would be stuck on the highly flammable grass with no way out. Absolutely brilliant.
I have claustrophobia from the one time we had a legit hard lockdown as we were instructed to go to the nearest room and lock the door. I was in the restroom when the announcement hit and so I had no where else I could go. In the end it was all a false alarm because the school faculty forgot one of the classes had a guest speaker coming and since this unfortunately happened at a time when there had been multiple shootings all across the country, the faculty was very quick to jump to conclusions.
When it was a passing period in highschool and suddenly see some students running and then a teacher standing outside their room just turned to me and said “Run.”
Right after that the lockdown alarms went off. Someone brought a gun apparently 🤷♀️ Luckily nobody was hurt but it made me realize schools don’t teach you what to do for a lockdown during a passing period/lunch
Was anyone harmed during the evacuation? Asking for input from a different school to share with mine.
"The cat was furious" idk why I laughed at that
Last Story: Holy crap that's right out of a PSA we have in Canada
In fourth grade, Mrs. Alexander turned on the TV, which was only use for fun lessons and free time, but we’d passed the lesson and were in the assignment portion of class.
I looked up at the TV as she turned it to the news and as a passenger plane crashed into a skyscraper. I didn’t know what was going on ash’s the class had gone dead silent.
I didn’t notice it immediately, but after 9/11, the world became a different place, with the US morphing into a less friendly place, for foreigners and residents, and we’ve never recovered from it 😢
I once volunteered as the head of organizational management for a large event with around 40,000 participants. At one of our venues, we had significantly more attendees than expected - around 1,000 instead of 500. We were prepared for such a situation and in the process of implementing measures to handle it when a police officer passed by, lost his composure, and started giving nonsensical instructions through his megaphone without consulting anyone.
This caused panic and overcrowding among the participants, with people running in the opposite direction instead of flowing smoothly. The police officer became unresponsive to reason and it took some time for the contact police officer within the organizational management team to intervene and remove that guy. It took some time to calm the situation down and luckily nothing serious happened. We sent some ambulances and rescue workers there just in case, but they had little to do.
In another event, where I held the same position, a similar scenario unfolded: The venue was overcrowded and people kept streaming in. Why? Because the streets outside were also packed due to the sunny weather of 30°C. There was simply no place to direct the people to, and more individuals were arriving to the area due to upcoming events. The solution we came up with was to redirect coming people to nearby parks and to contact restaurants within the area to let them know that the event organizer would cover the cost of a complimentary softdrink for each participant. The restaurant owners even brought in people from the streets themselves. (This cost money, not lives.)
Before you ask: This was a mixture of poor planning on many levels and unexpectedly large numbers of attendees. Especially in public areas, this often cannot be foreseen.
I actually went to that titanic museum in Sevierville, TN. My character was from Finland. He was an adult in lower class, but survived because he knew how to swim.
I was in 6th grade. we had a tornado warning in southeastern Wisconsin, so we all got into our positions, in the hallway. some kids are crying, some are casually making jokes about stuff. it ended up being wind. WIND!!!!!!!!!!!
I heard a crash then a screech as tires slide across the pavement... I realized right away that an accident had just happened at the stop light near my workplace. I ran outside immediately to help the injured. One lady was bleeding from her head and the kids from the back of the other car were screaming and crying. We comforted them and stayed with them until the police and ambulance arrived. As far as I know, everyone was OK...
I have two similar stories, one from elementary school, the other from high school. So, I’m in elementary school minding my own business, doing work out in the hallway one day, and I hear a faint electrical buzz. I immediately hold my ears, knowing that the fire alarms in that building make a little electrical hum a few seconds before they sound, which I’m the only person who seems to notice. Sure enough, the buzz is followed by a loud, piercing HONK!!! It should also be said that I’m hyper sensitive to these things and that when I didn’t want to go to school in my elementary school days, it was likely for fear of that alarm. It was never as bad as I anticipated it to be, however. Anyway, I immediately hold my ears and evacuate down the nearest flight of stairs. After I get out of the building, I realize that we’d just had a fire drill not long ago. Not only that, but it was absolutely pouring rain: they had usually scheduled drills in dry weather at that school. We all stand outside for what seems like ages, and the fire department arrives. During a drill, either the fire department arrives beforehand, or not at all: this was either a fire, or somebody pulled the alarm. We’d had a few false alarms in the past caused by kids pulling the alarm, or burnt popcorn in the staff room, but this turned out to be different. Once we are let back into the building, one of my teachers hints that a student is badly injured, and could’ve been killed. I didn’t find out about this until a week or two later, likely because this is an elementary school and young students are not usually told about life threatening situations, but apparently, a student that day had brought a knife to school. Luckily, either another student or a teacher had the brains to pull the fire alarm and get everybody out. Even though there was not a fire, this seemed like a good idea, because if there’s any chance of a fire, you can be sure that people are going to be out of there. The scariest part of this entire thing was that, the armed student was in my sister’s grade, and they somewhat knew each other. However, my parents had sensed something fishy about that student. I think that student was either suspended for a while, or completely kicked out of that school.
Second story: a high school near my house had a false bomb threat, THREE TIMES in ONE YEAR!! Turned out, it was a student who just really wanted to get out of class, and had lied that there was a bomb. Other students then followed suit, and repeated the same “fake bomb” story, twice in the year. All the students had to report to the separate gymnasium building, because it was thought that the main building would be targeted. In hindsight, gathering all the students in the same place seems like a disaster waiting to happen. Either no one is dead, or everyone is. Sadly, I know multiple people, from the elementary school in my previous story, who had to go through this, once again, THREE SEPARATE TIMES! Luckily I went to a different school a few blocks away, and we were put into a shelter in place a few times due to crime and shenanigans in the area, but we were not affected at all by the false bomb threats! I think we should’ve been, given the proximity.
9/11 for me was something else. My dad was in the Air National Guard, and when the first plane hit WTC, he immediately called my mom and told her to keep my brother and me at home.
When I woke up, the TV was on, and I saw the second plane hit WTC.
My dad was worried that there were more than two planes and the schools were a target.
I went to high school in Illinois and was on the cross country team. We regularly had cross country meets during horrible weather, including bad rainstorms. During one such day we exited our locker room and were about 10 feet from the glass door separating us from our bus when the cross country coach told us in a shaky voice: "Get down, get your head between your legs as practiced, this is the real thing". A tornado passed right over our school, but did not touch down. On the way to school the next day my sister looked out the window of the bus and saw some kids staring up at a tall tree in their yard...where their full size trampoline sat, high in the air.
bro once in middle school someone tried to get over the front gate into the school and there was police patrolling it was crazy bro it lasted till 2nd period to i think lunch
I play this podcast while I sleep your voice just makes me sleep faster ig
My mom and I were sitting one Saturday morning in our apartment waiting for our coffee maker to finish brewing when the fire alarm went off. This was not our smoke alarm but the common fire alarm. We evacuated thinking it was some kid that set it off. Until we saw a unit two doors down billowing thick black smoke out the door. Turns out a massive grease fire had started and took over the whole kitchen. The old lady who lived there had put something on the stove and started cleaning. I still remember a firefighter going in with only half the bunker gear on (no jacket) and coming outside with the flaming pot shouting "MOVE AWAY FROM THE BUILDING!!!" He tosses that pot over the side and it lands open side down snuffing the source. Turns out she had some flammable cleaning supplies near that pot that were close to exploding hence why the firefighter didn't wait. He got some nasty burns on his arms and went to the hospital. Thankfully the fire was put out quickly and didn't spread beyond the kitchen thanks to sprinklers. Fun fact: a sprinkler activation immediately sets off alarms with a flow switch and the alarm console sends the message to dispatch that the alarm is going off due to a sprinkler
I.e THIS IS NOT A DRILL
My own: I was in Prospect (Name of my towns Pre-K to 3rd grade school) and we had a fire alarm activation, upon almost reaching to my class's evacuation spot, I look to my right and I see that there is an actual fire, one of the fire alarm boxes on the school's exterior caught fire.
While in high school, i was walking to my last class of the day. Prople were more rushed than normal but i was none the wiser. We got into our classes, and were told to huddle in the corner/away from the door. I wasnt sure what was going on and thought it was a drill at first, it wasnt. A kid beefed with another kid, and shot a different kid during class change. Cue everyone getting searched then moved to the softball feild after the shooter fled. Ill never forget the three officers coming into the classroom to search us, one of them standing behind the teachers desk to watch as the others searched, decked out in full gear with a big gun in hand. Scary
Few months ago there was a bomb threat at our school. Nobody knew what was going on, not even the teachers. We were told a few days later.
I just had to evacuate a couple of weeks ago. It was 3 pm on a Wednesday afternoon. Our Bio professor was lecturing to us when 1 of my classmate pointed out that the fire alarms were going off. The sirens weren't on, but the lights were flashing. My professor canceled the rest of the class because, by the time the firefighters came and turned it off, class would have been over. Thankfully, our classroom was right next to an exit.
One time I was in a hotel around my birthday and the fire alarm went off we are trying to figure out what it was and as soon as we figure that out we exited out and we went back in like five minutes later as soon as the fire alarms. Stopped
I work in a call center. We had a fire. Lady cussed me out and accused us of intentionally doing this just to get out of taking her call... Yep lady, you are SOOO special that we saw your call coming in and said "Let's burn this place down and cause 1k ppl to be out of a job until we can relocate." 🤣
i never experienced a “this is not a drill” moment at _my_ school but when when i got in my moms car after school, we went to my brothers high school, she said there was a school shooter in the building we’re in, and we’re waiting for my brother to get to us, he survived, i don’t remember that much that day, i never heard gunshots, but i did think that me, my mom and DEFINITELY my brothers life was at risk, again, we all survived
If the PA system says "Code White, Code White", it means;
"Someone hss opened an envelope full of powdered Anthrax, you're all gonna diiiieeee!!!!!!"
When I was in 8th grade, the bell just rang and I went to my science class. Usually we have 2 or 3 minutes down time before class really starts. I was looking out the window with some guy who's name I long forgot. I asked him if he knows why there's a fire truck outside and as if on queue, the fire alarm goes off. My next line was "I get the feeling this is not a drill". We were outside for 2 hours. Turns out a dryer on the 3rd floor caught fire.
I was in seventh grade, we usually had shelter in places in school because our sewer system was shot. Usually during these kinds of things we just keep doing the lesson, just closing the doors until we are allowed back out. I sit across from the door, so when the bell rings I am the first one out. Me and my friend start heading to our next class, and we’re about halfway to our next class (the classroom was on the other end of the building because of course it was) . Then, all of the teachers begin shouting at me and my friend through the glass on the doors. One of the teachers grabs my friend by the arm and pulls them into the room. I begin to book it back to class, shaking. Turns out an intruder entered the building. No weapon was found but it was terrifying.
Not as serious probably but…
When I was in 6th grade, the fire alarm started going off. It wasn’t planned, but hey, oh well.
So we walk out into the field, chat a bit, etc… everything seems fine. Then my friend starts freaking out. Why? Because there were fire trucks at our school. However, it was only a spark in the science lab so everything was still fine.
Still.
At my public elementary school (early 2000s), We once had an Intruder Lockdown emergency without even knowing it. A legitimate prison escapee crossed through our building while evading police, and everyone was inside the P.E. room at assembly, completely oblivious to it. I was too young to remember that day, if I was even there, or even if the school had security or even proper cameras to notify police. Only that there was a buzz about it days later with local news channels covering it. At one point there was also a bit of commotion when a cougar was sighted on school grounds. If memory serves me correct that was a few years before that event.
2:24 We had a similar situation but it turned out to be a shovel. I was away at Vocational Ed across town the day it happened.
1.( bare with me I don’t remember much) basically the whole school went to lockdown Later we found out somebody brought a bullet to school wasn’t a gun with it just a bullet or though that’s pretty much how lucky we are anyway
2. fire drill I realized that didn’t say drill when they announced it ended up chilling on the sidewalk while we see firetrucks pass by apparently there was a grease fire in the kitchen
I've had to walk down the stairs of a highrise building twice due to fires. One of them we could see the fire reflected in a neighboring building's glass windows. Hooboy. I am not at all sure we were really supposed to go down, as they usually just evacuate a few floors above and below where the fire is. We preferred to risk staircase injuries rather than fire. (Hurrying down 20 or so flights of a tall building can do a number on your calves if you don't get that sort of exercise regularly, particularly if you're wearing heels, or have removed them and are going barefoot.)
I just moved into a school for STEM Academy this year,and yesterday the fire alarm went off.Of course,everyone in the classroom went crazy because they didn’t have to do work until the drill was over.I,on the other hand,was annoyed because we were given no warning that there was a fire drill today.When we were all outside,a few friends came over to my class and we chatted without getting in any trouble.But then,five or six fire trucks came in,and immediately realized that this wasn’t a drill.And then an ambulance arrived.Nobody told me what was going on when the fire was taken care of,and I didn’t know how big it even was.I was pretty annoyed about that instead.
When I saw my brother after school,he and his friend said that the fire occurred next to their classroom.Apparently,the AC unit was clogged or something,which caused it to heat up and catch on fire.Soon enough,the AC units in my brother’s classroom started to smoke,and the one the floor above did as well.
When my brother made it out of the school,the ambulance apparently had the stretcher out,but they didn’t see if anyone was in it.That was a pretty crazy start to a Friday ;-;
First day of freshman year in high school I was sitting in drama class. The intercom buzzes on and its the principal saying that this has been a bomb threat and everyone needed to evacuate the school immediately. We all do so filling out to just to where the parking lot started, about a good 20-40ft away from the buildings. Cops are already there and the next thing I remember me and an old elementary school friend I had just reunited with see is some kid with long hair, a megadeath tshirt, and Tripp pants being cuffed and escorted off the premise. You didnt have to be an honors or AP student to figure out he was the one who made the threat. No actual bomb, and a lot of my friends are metalheads (genuinely nice people), but this kid looked like he had some issues.
I was in a hotel one night with my family, in Orlando, as a kid and the fire alarm went off. We were on the fourth floor and I just remember all these families rushing out and trying to run down the stairs. Everyone was in their pajamas. Everyone got out safely and waited a good 2 hours before going back in, everyone thought it was some stupid prank a kid pulled (there were a lot of College students out having fun and drinking) turns out the fire was real. I overheard the kitchen staff speaking about the "Fuego en horno, anoche" (Oven on fire last night), during breakfast. Those scrambled eggs weren't so appetizing after hearing that. *Yes I learned Spanish back then and no I haven't kept up with it so a lot is rusty but I can still make out a sentence from a word or two,
9/11 i was 11. and its a weird age for that to happen because you are just starting to understand that the world is different than your little corner of it.
i was in the hallway when the announcement came on. i remember not hearing the principal clearly, but i remember thinking 'well, it doesn't have to dpowith me.' return to classroom and tv is on. remember towers falling and new about flight 93. remember no one really talking throughout the day.
i agree childhood ended that day
One time when i was little a fire alarm went off and it was due to a chemical spill in one of my school's labs, we stayed outside for ages and eventually went down to kindergarten and we all watched finding nemo, my school was in the newspaper, people who live around worcestershire in England might know about it
I like how my high school had 3 lock downs and we all got searched for weapons
In late 2019/early 2020 when Australia had an intense fire season, my school had a fire lockdown twice in the span of a week due to some nearby fires 👀
The second time we thought the siren was sounding to call for the end of recess, but then the siren just didn't stop lmao. Both times it was pretty cool seeing fire fighting planes swarm the sky above the school, though having to turn off the air conditioners was less fun.
I was in my gym in 5th grade, we were taking pictures of the year after new year of 5th grade. Once we were all done, the fire alarm goes off, what? There's no drill and everyone is here! [ I forgot to mention that all the other grades were there ] we run out because the schools was literally smelling. I run to my friend who is russian and was still learning English so I had to use little words for her to know more. Mean while she has a nose bleed, after we make it to the middle school right next to my school, we all sit on one of the cafeteria seats, once we are able to come back to school, we learned there was a leak and some of it caught fire, it was in where the lunch ladys made food. Everything was fine besides some things in the lunch lady room.
When I was in elementary school, there was police action further along the street so the school went into lockdown, the next day we had a lockdown drill
This happened in December 2022.
I live in Texas, meaning we live in Tornado Alley. I have lived in Texas since 2019 and have never once experienced a tornado. I only had ONE practice drill in those three years. I’m in my culinary class and all morning it had been storming, and thundering and the lights were going in and out. It was close to the end of course when suddenly everyone’s phones went off and when I looked at mine, my anxiety went from 0 to 100 in less than a few seconds. It was a tornado WARNING. Then what hit the nail into the coffin was when the principal came over the loudspeaker and told everyone to shelter in place immediately and I put two and two together instantly. Me and 15 or more students cramped into this small hallway for 45 minutes and those minutes felt like hours. The teacher wouldn’t let anybody go into the bathroom. I was so scared and everyone kept saying “Oh no, we’re going to die”, “The tornado is going to kill us”, etc which only freaked me out even more. Luckily, two of my classmates helped me keep calm. We weren’t released into our third period until after 10 AM or so. But I had a killer migraine for the whole day (I listened to music full blast with my bluetooth headphones to ignore the comments and help me keep my anxiety at bay). Later, at dinnertime, the tornado hit ten miles away from our town. Ever since I have been terrified of storms and the possibility of a possible tornado whenever a thunderstorm hits our town. My paranoia goes to the ultimate max.
When I was in high school, there was an announcement that there was a bomb in the building. We were evacuated to the elementary school behind our schools football field, and were sent home from there after it was cleared. Later on, I learned that someone in my grade had called in the bomb threat, went to some nearby woods, and committed suicide.
Oh, no! I'm so sorry. They must have been in great pain to lash out at others and themself that way.
This was only a few months ago actually. I was in 1st period PE and we were inside the gym. The speaker goes off and we expect it to be an announcement, but we don’t pay attention cos it’s loud af in PE. Then our female couch tells us we’re headed into the lockers for a secure. We weren’t sure how serious it was, until we heard “Everyone we are moving into lockdown. I repeat we are moving into lockdown. This is not a drill. Locks, lights, out of sight.”
So now we’re mostly all scared. Some of us texting parents, others quietly helping their friends feel safe, etc. So now it’s been at least 20 minutes it feels like, and we’re STILL IN THE LOCKER ROOMS!!!
Now I’m, with my sensitive ahh, crying lightly and my bestie is tryna comfort me. I was scared for my life.
After about 30 minutes of being locked in the locker room, we hear an announcement saying, “We are now moving down to a secure. You can move your students out of hiding, but do not leave the classroom until we provide an all clear.”
So we go outside, still about 10-15 minutes of class left so we play around and do our thing again. The bell rings. We ask if we can go change since they never told us. The coach says no because we were still on a secure code. So now second period has already started. We wait for a bit longer. It nearly lunch time now, still haven’t left for anything. The speaker then goes, “All 6th grade teachers, please carefully move your students into the cafeteria for lunch time. So we go in and eat. The assistant principal tells us near the end of lunch that we will be going back with our first period teachers. Im still pretty worried why we can’t go to our next periods.
Skipping a bit bc the whole rest of the day was the same basically
Day ends. We get on the buses or go with our parents and that’s that.
Turns out there was a domestic incident between a mother and father where the father had threatened to go pick up a child he had no custody over, and he actually did. Another thing, some people thought he actually brought a WEAPON!
So yeah. There’s how I got scared and bored out of my mind all day.
I swear that I was destined to see Empire Strikes Back in the theater for my birthday the year the Special Editions came out. Was originally supposed to be Return of the Jedi but that was pushed back a few weeks. Then my father went to take us to the same theater to see ESB a couple weeks before the party. Wouldn't hurt to see it again, right? Well, we get in, get our snacks, and get seated in the theater (at the top under the projector like always) and we're sitting there watching the pre movie ads and crap. Well, trouble started when the slide projector jammed. Not even a minute later the fire alarm went off. There was supposedly a problem with the air conditioning system. There wasn't, at least not that anyone could tell, and they eventually let people back in, but we left and went home. So I got to see ESB for my birthday party that year... ugh. I always liked Return of the Jedi better...
We lost a oven in highschool. We all thought it was a drill, teachers as well until everyone started realizing we had been outside forever. It was a nice day at least.
There was also the phase of kids writing boomb threats that had to be taken seriously. Everyone was just floored that people kept thinking it was a good idea. Those days sucked. Although we got decent comedy in finding out one kid got us thrown into the first stage of the lockdown because he was setting up a solar oven the class made… the teacher only picked him because he was a saint…
The fire alarm went off like 3 times this school year when it wasn’t a drill
First time a thunderstorm was coming and the other two times it was cold out.
Turns out some kid was smoking weed in the bathroom for the first incident and the other two times possibly the same thing
The fore department had to come sirens blaring only to find no fire and a bunch of irritated students and staff and it always throws off the ENTIRE schedule for everyone
And not to mention false alarms waste the time and resources of the Fire department
With the bomb story, either the fields or when the school was loading up with students would be among the best for max injuries and damage.
In the US Navy, we have alarms for about just every emergency that can hit a ship. I was on an aircraft carrier out to sea on deployment. We typically have two shifts, a days and nights. I had just gotten back on day shift after being on nights for the majority of the deployment after I had gotten back to my division from being TAD to S-11 in Supply Department. I was talking to friend in Air Department when a rapid series of bells followed by a single bell and an announcement of toxic gas in the forward third of the ship. Nights had gone to sleep maybe two to three hours earlier. Everyone was evacuated from their berthings and work spaces while the flying squad secured the cause of the toxic gas. In the end, it was a few 5 gal drums of Aqueous Film Forming Foam or AFFF, the main fire fighting agent on board, was decomposing. When AFFF decomposes it produces a very smelly yet potentially deadly toxic gas when it gets to high enough levels. And it's actually very low for this stuff. My shop was in the area that was evacuated. Didn't do anything for an hour because of it.
I Always Wondered About How Would It Be In A Real Fire School Thingy And I Thought That The Announcer Would Just Be Like “ ThIs Is NoT a FiRe DrIl GeT oUt SiDe ThIs Is NoT a FiRe DrIl “ Like An Idiot And Then One Day The Alarms Went Off I I Here “ Please Evacuate At This Time x2 “ And Then I Was Like “ Oh Shoot It’s Real “
I was mid 7th bell, history class. I smell something rain and think some kid just ripped a nasty one. 15 minutes later the announcer turns on “We are doing an early dismissal. Please pack up your stuff and exit the building *quickly*” when I got outside I paused for a moment, sniffed the air and froze. I screamed, “ITS A NATURAL GAS LEAK”. Days later, confirmed. We had been evacuated due to a gas leak that could be smelled from a mile away.