In our hospital, all hallway smoke doors close automatically when any pull station is activated anywhere in the hospital.

We are trained again and again and yet again that during a code red
to clear all hallways of equipment and visitors as it's not safe to have people wandering around in the halls during a fire.

People don't think and get on elevators, blunder into the area where the fire is or become wanna be heros and generally get underfoot of the people trained to deal with it.

I'm a nurse and it is my job is to protect my patients and visitors. If I've got someone wandering around the hallways during a fire, they are my responsibility because they are in my facility.

When the fire marshall orders evacuation of a floor, I have to account for everyone on that unit patients and visitors alike.

I can't account for someone if they're wandering around.

Don't confuse power tripping with a sense of responsibility.