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People are generally surprisingly chill when a fire alarm goes off, amirite?
by jazmin781 week ago
Most of the time the fire alarm going off is a test. Even if it isn't, panicking and rushing for the door in a crowd is slower than calmly filing out.
by Sensitive-Score75301 week ago
Rushing and hurrying is chaotic, but might help as far as there is general sense of understanding and cooperation among the crowd.
by Puzzleheaded_End1 week ago
We've been trained on what to do since we were little. Alarm goes off, calmly walk outside, form a line to get out the door and calmly walk in line. Drills work because it really drills a habit into you.
by Anonymous1 week ago
That's for the best. Everyone panicking wouldn't help matters.
by Anonymous1 week ago
i just assume some drunk person, kid, or immature adult pulled it.
by Ok-Risk33031 week ago
That's all part of crowd control. Unless they can see the flames. All you say is "we have been told to clear the area as a precaution." I've been in a few stores that have had fires, twice I was working there. People still calmly walked out the doors because of workers taking control of the situation.
by Anonymous1 week ago
That's the point. Hundreds of people panicking is the last thing you want in an actual emergency.
by marksjacynthe1 week ago
I feel like I remember a movie theater or something burned down with everybody in it, total loss, all because the people at the door couldn't open it before all the panicking people behind them were slamming them into it so hard they couldn't move. Iirc it was the reason why those doors have to have a bar you press to open instead of a normal handle or something to that effect.
by Anonymous1 week ago
I have probably heard over 100 fire alarms in my lifetime. Not a single one was due to an actual fire. That's the reason I'm calm, because a fire alarm doesn't mean fire. Just like when you ignore a car alarm. Nobody's car is ever getting broken into when you hear one
by Jenniferrenner1 week ago
That's a good thing, right? Stampedes aren't.
by Anonymous1 week ago
that's because they run 100s of fire drills when we're at school
by Anonymous1 week ago
Different story if the fire alarm goes off and people can see an actual fire.
by Ok_Pea1 week ago
well in America we do fire drills as soon as we can walk pretty much so that might have something to do with it
by Significant-Path1 week ago
It's because of all those damned drills
by Anonymous1 week ago
I've seen fire alarms go off plenty of times in my life. Not once has an alarm actually been due to a fire or dangerous situation. I'm not gonna waste the energy to panic unless I see flames or feel the building move.
by Anonymous1 week ago
You need to find a dude named George Costanza and see his reaction.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Mmmmm...puddin skins
by Anonymous1 week ago
kids in high school be pulling the alarms everyday, there's rarely ever a fire
by Feiljordi1 week ago
Not me I run … Well I run to every class… BUT I still run anyway
by Friendly_Cheetah1 week ago
yeah, unless you work at a paper company in Scranton, PA
by Rough-Factor1 week ago
Unless you work in commercial construction. When they install them they test all of them in the whole building, all day. If there was a fire then, we'd all be calmly continuing to work while we approach a terrible death lol
by Anonymous1 week ago
Crowd crush when you panic in a fire has been shown to kill as many people as a fire.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Had a fire alarm go off while I was in the movie theatre once. It took everyone in the theatre around 5 minutes to realize the alarm wasn't part of the movie, then they slowly started to trickle out into the lobby.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Agreed, I've been working with a guy who helps people with their evacuations and it's like hearding cats.
by barrett951 week ago
I worked in a place where people would stoically sit at their desks during a fire alarm as a way of showing their "work ethic".
by Anonymous1 week ago
because it's more often than not either a false alarm or a test
by Gold-Programmer-54061 week ago
It is rarely ever an actual fire but just a drill.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Most of the time it isn't even a big deal. A smoke detector could be going off because something was a bit too smoky. It's not likely that there is a huge fire. But yeah as other people have said, we get trained to do it, and sometimes it is just a test. Although I have had a couple times in school where there was an actual fire. But it was very minor. It really helps that the teachers play it casually and say it's just a pre-planned drill. And then tell us after that it was real.
by champlinangelit1 week ago
I've been at many scenes where a fire alarm has gone off. In none of the cases was there any urgency or even any actual need to evaluate when it was a real fire.
by Anonymous1 week ago
In college, a fire alarm went off in a 4 story building, and I ran down to the grounds. 5 minutes later everyone else sauntered out. If it had been an actual fire, they would have all been dead.
by Anonymous1 week ago
What if everyone ran down all at the same time?
by dulce791 week ago
Complacency kills. Or the boy who called wolf too often.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Everything is cool until "the fire starts shooting at us."
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