Arrgh - Fire alarm!!

Dunks · 17 Oct 2007 at 11:00

fini said:
Is that only the second fire alarm you've had since moving into halls then? My block in halls had two fire alarms yesterday! As post-grads, we're not as bad as the undergrad block

We have about 2 a week on average, sucks when it goes off at like 4am

. Meh, fire alarm test in a few mins..

Steedie · 17 Oct 2007 at 11:02

We used to have one a day in halls, by about Christmas time, as bad as it was, everyone just ignored them

It would go off about 3am (someone cooking a drunken meal) and everyone would just stay in bed or if during the day, turn their music up loud to cover it up, me included

Really dont recommend that obviously incase it was a real fire, but in that place the amount they went off, you just knew it wasnt

Azza · 17 Oct 2007 at 11:02

fini said:
Is that only the second fire alarm you've had since moving into halls then? My block in halls had two fire alarms yesterday! As post-grads, we're not as bad as the undergrad block

There was one in the second week at something like 2am but I wasnt in for that one sadly.

Smiley Man · 17 Oct 2007 at 11:49

InvaderGIR said:
In Purbeck in Bournemouth they used to test them at 10am on Mondays, was amusing as I had uni at 9 on Mondays last year...scared the hell out of my missus when she stayed till sometime late Monday. I'd completely forgotten about the tests.

For the first couple of weeks there we used to have idiots setting them off about once a night at silly'o'clock, so glad I'm in a house now.

InvG

i usually get up about 9 and go for a walk before lectures so i dont hear it, but last week i forgot and slept in, seriously i was so ******* scared :eek:

i was half awake and half asleep so i thought the world was ending, leaped out of bed screaming :eek:

then realised they were testing it so went back to sleep

LLBDTiberio · 17 Oct 2007 at 12:36

Haha, firetests reminds me of the weekly ones we used to have in my uni halls, always at random times so you'd always believe it was a real fire alarm :rolleyes:

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Manage to get out of bed and get dressed only for the damn thing to finish right before you get out the door

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Had a funny case once where I had to sit and watch a wayyyyyy to drunk guy who'd passed out in his bed, just to make sure that he wouldn't throw up and die.
Anyway, some drunk decides to cook bacon at 4am, when they burn it, their first reaction isn't to open the windows, no they open the firedoor, setting of the detector.
Poor drunk guy, was helped out by the fire dept. throwing up all over them

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Bill101 · 17 Oct 2007 at 12:48

knip said:
Hey if theres a fire alarm at the school I work in, I have to sit tight in the classroom, and hope the 30 minute fire doors keep me safe until someone comes to get me.

Rules is rules and I have to wait behind with the disabled child I look after.

You should have a recognised 'Refuge Point' in the building so the Fire brigade know were to look first.

azzerz · 17 Oct 2007 at 12:53

45 mins to find out there was no fire??

knip · 17 Oct 2007 at 16:45

Bill101 said:
You should have a recognised 'Refuge Point' in the building so the Fire brigade know were to look first.

Im not just in one classroom though, we can be in at least 4 different parts of the school during the day.

The way it works is I have to let everyone else leave the building first, and then I can go last if its on the ground floor, if its up any stairs, the person in charge of things if theres a fire has a copy of the child I look afters timetable in the fire folder and then he looks to see where we are, and then either comes to get us if the fire isnt in that building, or sends the fire brigade in when they get there (allegedly within 5 minutes I am told) and they help me carry him out.

Tefal · 17 Oct 2007 at 16:48

knip said:
Im not just in one classroom though, we can be in at least 4 different parts of the school during the day.

The way it works is I have to let everyone else leave the building first, and then I can go last if its on the ground floor, if its up any stairs, the person in charge of things if theres a fire has a copy of the child I look afters timetable in the fire folder and then he looks to see where we are, and then either comes to get us if the fire isnt in that building, or sends the fire brigade in when they get there (allegedly within 5 minutes I am told) and they help me carry him out.

Surly if there was a fire, you, (or if its a heavy child you can't lift a stronger person) could just grab them up and leg it down the stairs after everyone else?

knip · 17 Oct 2007 at 16:51

Tefal said:
Surly if there was a fire, you, (or if its a heavy child you can't lift a stronger person) could just grab them up and leg it down the stairs after everyone else?

Yeah I would do if there was a real fire, I am not supposed to carry him due to his weight but I would if there was a real fire yes. Thats just what the law says I am supposed to do. Will probably be the longest few minutes of my life waiting for someone to come and get us.

fini · 17 Oct 2007 at 18:32

knip said:
I am not supposed to carry him due to his weight but I would if there was a real fire yes.

Sorry but that made me laugh.

'I'm sorry jimmy, but you're too fat to be saved - now stay here and try not to shriek too loudly when the fire gets you, there's a good boy

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knip · 17 Oct 2007 at 19:01

fini said:
Sorry but that made me laugh.

'I'm sorry jimmy, but you're too fat to be saved - now stay here and try not to shriek too loudly when the fire gets you, there's a good boy '

Sorry to disappoint hes only 20kg, but the legal limit for carrying on your own is 18kg. Obviously in the case of a fire the health and safety rubbish would go out the window, but it is there for a reason, im getting a bad knee from all the years I have carried him about.
And the type of kid he is, he'd just tell me to get lost and let the firemen come and save him anyway.

Tefal · 17 Oct 2007 at 19:26

knip said:
Sorry to disappoint hes only 20kg, but the legal limit for carrying on your own is 18kg. Obviously in the case of a fire the health and safety rubbish would go out the window, but it is there for a reason, im getting a bad knee from all the years I have carried him about.
And the type of kid he is, he'd just tell me to get lost and let the firemen come and save him anyway.

'course getting rescued by your teacher is no where near as cool

Will_3rd · 20 Oct 2007 at 11:26

Had a fire alarm at 5:15am this morning, some hoodlum elbowed an alarm on his/her way out. Not pleased had to stand on uber cold seafront for 15 mins.

Hilly · 20 Oct 2007 at 12:49

I don't even have a fire alarm but I want his number to text him in the early hours of the morning

[TW]Fox · 20 Oct 2007 at 12:52

Azza said:
The ******* fire alarm just went off and we had to stand in the car park for 45 mins. .

Thats really great but why tell us?

Tefal · 20 Oct 2007 at 13:02

[TW]Fox;10314700 said:
Thats really great but why tell us?

more importantly why tell me at 5am when I live miles away over the border ?

J.B · 20 Oct 2007 at 14:29

We used to get fire alarms all the time. Once we had 4 in 24 hours, on the 4th i tried to stay in bed and it just hurt my ears :mad:

serves me right really.

Then there was one that made me jump and I knocked over a glass of apple juice onto the carpet, never did get that carpet clean.

Nothing was as bad as when Bunsfield blew up. There was an increadably loud bang, almost like someone had slamed a really heavy door right next to your head and everything rattled then it was really quiet. That is not what you want to wake up to if you have a hangover.