I feel suprise fire drills are less scary than regular ones because in regular ones, you are waiting for the alarm.

Back in my day (80s and 90s), schools in Ontario were required to conduct 3 drills a year, at my elementary school we sometimes did 2 drills in one day to accommodate the half-day kindergarten classes. They never announced drills when I was in high school (in elementary school, they always announced it plus a follow-up announcement after the drill ended), I remember one time in grade 10 I was heading to my next class and the alarm went off just a split second after I passed it

Here in Clark County School District, there can't really be any surprise fire drills anymore because of the whole thing where they have to verify if a fire alarm is legit, if it's a false alarm, or if it's a shooter pulling the alarm to lure people out. We always have to stay in the classrooms until they silence the alarm and make the announcement to evacuate, and in that announcement they also always tell us if it's a drill or not.

Ayo first I’m a big fan

Yay for surprise fire drills. I agree with you it's not like there's an announcement like "the school will catch on fire soon" nobody knows until the alarm goes off. Thats the point of a drill

Apparently some schools tell the students that a drill is coming. Mine just lets us find out the hard way lol

Every time there's a fire drill, I get so jump-scared I end up letting out a little scream and it's like lightning shocks all my muscles.

I have way too many questions because I find this whole process interesting. I agree with surprise fire drills. There were plenty of times when the teacher didn't do any instruction and tried to be coy about it or they straight up told us one was happening during class. You can't plan a fire. I can understand doing planned drills during the first few months of the school year so everyone knows the procedures and are comfortable them, but there should be surprise ones for the rest of the year. It'd be cool if the alarms had some sort of LED indicator to show if it was an alarm triggered by school staff or not. Still, the teachers wouldn't know when it could go off. I mean the procedures should always be the same, but it could provide a sense of relief.

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I agree with the stance on surprise fire drills the only issue I have is how do you accommodate for someone that has photo sensitive epilepsy or someone that has certain mental disorders I know there is a documented one for noises especially those triggered by fire alarms I just don't know what it's called. If the person has a mental breakdown and starts screaming etc so much for an organized fire drill

I think surprise fire drills are a lot better because its more realistic and you never know when they're going to happen.

In my school district in the USA we don't know when we have drills and I've experienced a real fire before thanks to a top floor light exploding and it was in December so mad chilly,

i am so scared of fire drills but I am trying to progress

this sounds like the one at my school

Nice video keel up the good work!

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Great content! Subcribed! Would you mind doing a detail video on the wiring of the devises ex. Facp, pull station, strobes , heat detector , anunciators ect...plz

This is amazing, I always get to do fire drills in middle school, but now I’m headed to high, you make it very informative and interesting, (btw I loved to see those Canadian L-Seried in action)

Ah yes, love the surprise.

Is that that annunciator cabinet custom? I've only ever seen the ABS-2D's.

At my school since there not in sync there all activated at different times so we know it's coming

Cool I like it

did you disable the dialer or did they call the alarm co?

At my school they never announce when there will be a fire dril. Not even the first one. For lockdown drills only the first one is announced but the other 3 are unannounced

School still not out for you guys up there?

Does that l series have the French lettering. It's rare to find one of those in public

1:00 alarm starts

I don’t get the point of a surprise drill if. We always do planned drills because if it was a surprise, we would half to bring all of our stuff with us because we would think there is an emerging the building.

What day was this filmed

Our fire Marshall actually doesn’t allow surprise fire drills. An announcement must be made 15 seconds before the alarm is activated. His reasoning is because with school shootings pulling the fire alarm, he’s not terribly worried about a fully sprinklered building burning to the ground and most of the time the alarm goes off, it’s because an idiot pulled the alarm. We’re perfectly capable of evacuating the school during a surprise alarm but if it’s just a drill, we want to know it’s just a drill.

I have a question, why is there a need for the annunciator at that specific place when the panel is just a 20 second walk from there?

my school wait's for a fire alarm for 30 seconds and have an announcement that it's safe for everyone to go into the hall's and go to the exit. reason why is because if we had a intruder in the school and pulled the fire alarm to get everyone outside and risk our own life's from whatever the intruder would do as in a lockdown.

Were you testing an emergency generator at one point? I heard a motor start and shut down while you were talking to your partner about how you like surprise fire drills.

We had a surprise fire drill today that teachers did not know about.

Didn’t you guys replace the entire fire alarm system on that school

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I had a lockdown drill today since a while and a fire drill 20 mins after

Only reason I don’t like surprise drills is because I can be sensitive to the loud noise. The thing I don’t understand is if you announce each drill, and an alarm goes off unannounced, aren’t you more likely to think there could be a real situation? Wouldn’t most people want to know if it’s a drill versus the real thing? I’ve seen preannounced drills done and they seem to be just as effective, because people know it’s a drill to practice their procedures. I don’t think you should have to simulate a real fire-people won’t know if there’s a fire or not and that can just lead to panic. I respectfully disagree with the position.

Hm. I think this was a surprise fire drill.

i can hear people in the background

Your buddy looks older than he sounds.

Where I am, we are lawfully required to do one every half term (although it is not enforced) and every one of them is a surprise fire drill

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