We had a fire drill in the university building where the senior citizen classes are meeting, and everyone assured everyone else they didn't have to go down the stairs.
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We had a fire drill in the university building where the senior citizen classes are meeting, and everyone assured everyone else they didn't have to go down the stairs. They just hung out in the hallway or on the landing.
I have seen how fast fire moves. My husband once tipped some incense ashes into his wastepaper basket because he thought they were cold. We had to renovate that part of the house even though we caught it within only. a few minutes.
So, yeah, I walked down five flights of stairs and out the fire door, and stood outside until the lights stopped flashing.
There were only a few people standing outside with me. One of them used to work near the World Trade Center on 9/11.
That's the point of a fire drill. It's not just to see if the lights and the alarms work. It's to see if the human beings can get out in time to stay alive.
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We had a fire drill in the university building where the senior citizen classes are meeting, and everyone assured everyone else they didn't have to go down the stairs. They just hung out in the hallway or on the landing.
I have seen how fast fire moves. My husband once tipped some incense ashes into his wastepaper basket because he thought they were cold. We had to renovate that part of the house even though we caught it within only. a few minutes.
So, yeah, I walked down five flights of stairs and out the fire door, and stood outside until the lights stopped flashing.
There were only a few people standing outside with me. One of them used to work near the World Trade Center on 9/11.
That's the point of a fire drill. It's not just to see if the lights and the alarms work. It's to see if the human beings can get out in time to stay alive.
As an RA in college, in training every year we had to watch a video of a dorm building catching fire in real time. It was due to be demolished anyway, so was set on fire as a controlled thing, to demonstrate how quickly fire moves. It was so, so incredibly fast. And that's in a building that was entirely empty save for the single room where the used a tipped-over candle to start the fire. Do _not_ mess around when fire alarms go off. Just get the hell out.
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We had a fire drill in the university building where the senior citizen classes are meeting, and everyone assured everyone else they didn't have to go down the stairs. They just hung out in the hallway or on the landing.
I have seen how fast fire moves. My husband once tipped some incense ashes into his wastepaper basket because he thought they were cold. We had to renovate that part of the house even though we caught it within only. a few minutes.
So, yeah, I walked down five flights of stairs and out the fire door, and stood outside until the lights stopped flashing.
There were only a few people standing outside with me. One of them used to work near the World Trade Center on 9/11.
That's the point of a fire drill. It's not just to see if the lights and the alarms work. It's to see if the human beings can get out in time to stay alive.
@deliaturner Many seniors have internalized ableism and do not want to identify as disabled due to the stigma. But people planning these classes should be trying to book classes for seniors on the ground floor or close to it because of just this thing.
At the time I wrote the Demandifesto, University of California had little in their EAPs that took disability into account. They offered no training to staff on how to evacuate disabled ppl. https://archive.org/details/disability-equity-and-justice-demands #Ableism
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@deliaturner Many seniors have internalized ableism and do not want to identify as disabled due to the stigma. But people planning these classes should be trying to book classes for seniors on the ground floor or close to it because of just this thing.
At the time I wrote the Demandifesto, University of California had little in their EAPs that took disability into account. They offered no training to staff on how to evacuate disabled ppl. https://archive.org/details/disability-equity-and-justice-demands #Ableism
@deliaturner Same with my community college experience. We had a drill and I had to figure out for myself how to do it accessibly. My prof knew I was disabled but had not been trained at all on how to look out for evacuating disabled students... I know this because I asked them if they'd received any.
So while there may be people who are being lackadaisical about drilling, it could also be that it hurts to go down that many stairs & that cuts to the lack of accessibility in room assignments.
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We had a fire drill in the university building where the senior citizen classes are meeting, and everyone assured everyone else they didn't have to go down the stairs. They just hung out in the hallway or on the landing.
I have seen how fast fire moves. My husband once tipped some incense ashes into his wastepaper basket because he thought they were cold. We had to renovate that part of the house even though we caught it within only. a few minutes.
So, yeah, I walked down five flights of stairs and out the fire door, and stood outside until the lights stopped flashing.
There were only a few people standing outside with me. One of them used to work near the World Trade Center on 9/11.
That's the point of a fire drill. It's not just to see if the lights and the alarms work. It's to see if the human beings can get out in time to stay alive.
@deliaturner
One think I like where I work is that the alram is so loud and the flashing lights so irritating that you'll leave just to get away from it. Its actually painful. I appreciate it. -
@deliaturner Same with my community college experience. We had a drill and I had to figure out for myself how to do it accessibly. My prof knew I was disabled but had not been trained at all on how to look out for evacuating disabled students... I know this because I asked them if they'd received any.
So while there may be people who are being lackadaisical about drilling, it could also be that it hurts to go down that many stairs & that cuts to the lack of accessibility in room assignments.
@meganL Could be? It IS painful. I’m 74. My knees and my hip often hurt. Some of the other people with me in class are more frail than me, some much less, but I went down those damn stairs, holding onto the banister.
Oh sure, I agree that senior citizen classes should probably be on a lower floor.
But none of the young people in the building went downstairs either.
