i've been through my share of fire drills, but today's 'run through' fire drill was the most crazy one i've ever been a part of. we had all the students, faculty and staff meet on our roof, where the local fire department was waiting, to instruct us what to do. they explained the process to the students, many of whom failed to follow the directions in the end regardless, and eventually the alarm started and everyone had to make it from our 10th floor rooftop to the ground floor (through the fire escape stairway. which is teeny tiny. gets narrower as you continue down. genius, really).
the highlight of the fire drill was the fire the department wanted to start to then demonstrate how to use a fire extinguisher. our students still shriek when the lights go out at night due to load shedding in chittagong (happens at least 5-10 times/day on average right now), so i'm not even sure their first reaction would be to grab a fire extinguisher, but it's good for them to know...however the fire department thought it would be a great idea to have all our students stand in our enclosed parking/lobby area and pour gasoline onto cardboard right in the middle of the gate opening...thanks to one of the other teachers they realized that might not be the greatest idea, so they then dragged the cardboard with gasoline already poured over it to our driveway...proceeding to then demonstrate how to use an extinguisher to put out a fire. our students were enthralled and excited, no doubt.
however i'm not so sure that in the event of a real fire it would go as smoothly. never does, i guess. oh chittagong. oh bangladesh.
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