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I was in a mall movie theater back east when the fire alarm went off and movie management evacuated everyone into the mall (toward the crowd/potential fire) rather than out the emergency exits that led to the parking garage and clean air. What's wrong with exiting to a garage?


Nothing "wrong" with it. It's just that it goes contrary to most people's instincts. They know that safety is outside, they don't necessarily know that the parking garage is. Logic says it should be - as it is concrete, has few combustibles (aside from the vehicles), is structurally sound and has at least one big ass exit to the outside. People in a crisis situation will default to their safest knowledge not stop and think things all the way through.