those who ignore warnings and fire alarms are just plain stupid.
At least part of that can be blamed on fire drills & false alarms. Standing around freezing your behind off while some twit calls roll because someone pulled the fire alarm (probably had an exam that day & hoped to get out of it) or they decided to have a drill tends to make you evaluate the situation first. Holler wolf often enough & people start to ignore you.
Heh - one of the 3 times I've been in a burning building (yes folks, I've been in 3 building fires, and I'm NOT a fire fighter) was in High school - we were scheduled to have a fire drill at like 10:10am (right after the start of some class - whatever the actual time was) - the alarm came through like 1-2 minutes early, so the few of us who had gotten to the classroom waited for the teacher to show (like I said, we were expecting a drill) - turns out it was a real fire 3 floors up! About 2 minutes later, one of the APs came by and said "didn't you hear the alarm?" we explaine, he said it was a real fire - the 3 of us were the last out! Never saw any smoke, but the FDNY got to put out 2 burning lockers, and we all went back to class about 30 minutes later. One of those cases where fire drills gave us the exact WRONG reaction
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