fire safety from our American office
Nov 24th, 2009 by Stace
USA: Sorry for missing your call. We had a fire drill here and I don’t think you would appreciate the noise…
me: oh dear. we had ours yesterday morning at 9.30, they made us all go outside on the coldest day so far this season…. brrrr….
USA: at least you get to go outside… they make us stay here and listen to 10 mins of these loud drill and flashing lights. it makes you want to tear your eyes out!
me: so you don’t practice the evacuation at all? how do they know that you know how to get out of the building if there was a real fire?
USA: we don’t! we just walk to the exit doors and stand there until the end of the drill. our office here is on the 37th floor and there are a total of 54 floors! they shut down all the elevators during the drill so the only way down is the stairs…
