My college had a fire. This is how I "evacuated".

[McJob]

[7:17:06 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: Here's what happened
[7:17:18 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: A camera battery on Level 6 either exploded or overheated or something
[7:17:39 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: And some idiot didn't understand SAFETY so he tossed the camera/battery/whatever somewhere, and the fire spread.
[7:18:00 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: 3 trucks were called and managed to ascend the building and fix it within 30 - 60 minutes.
[7:18:01 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: Meanwhile
[7:18:07 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: My friends and I were on Level 4.
[7:18:17 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: We heard the alarm and assumed it was a drill and ignored it.
[7:18:22 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: My friend walks out to take a piss
[7:18:26 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: I'm working in Unity
[7:18:32 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: He starts screaming my name
[7:18:37 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: Runs in
[7:18:44 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: "THERE'S A REAL FIRE HOLY forget"
[7:18:47 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: I turn to him
[7:18:58 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: "Okay, but I'm not leaving until I save these files."
[7:19:04 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: So that takes 10 minutes.
[7:19:11 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: Then we notice the other guy is gone.
[7:19:16 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: Turns out he was outside smoking.
[7:19:38 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: Go and retrieve him (which was its own ordeal since he wanted to continue smoking)
[7:19:49 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: He has stuff all over the place
[7:19:57 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: We spend 10 minutes picking up his stuff.
[7:20:02 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: And then we go down the fire escape
[7:20:04 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: Go outside
[7:20:25 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: The trucks are lining up to stop blocking traffic and the firemen are talking to all the personnel.
[7:20:55 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: We're just laughing hysterically because the people in the library on the first level of building literally don't give a stuff.
[7:21:01 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: They're inside just reading books.

/discuss interesting evacuations you've had during emergencies

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[The Resonte!]

when i read the title my first thought was that you evacuted by jumping out the window

[McJob]

when i read the title my first thought was that you evacuted by jumping out the window

It would have been a much faster way to travel down.

[Zharthon]

It would have been a much faster way to travel down.

yes but you would've also broken your legs if you jumped out of a window from the fourth floor of a building.

[Cybertails1998]

lifehack: just loving smash through a window instead of using the stairs or lift

[Ducky duck]

Fire alarm went off during english or something
we all exit the building in the freezing cold dead of winter
teachers keep saying its a drill
children get pissed, some eight graders threatening to sue as they begin getting frostbite
I-----------^
fire trucks come
we later find out it was some starfish on the second floor who pulled the alarm

[kanew2000]

It would have been a much faster way to travel down.

its also a much faster way to evacuate this mortal coil

[XR-7]

I had a similar situation this summer. I was at a camp over in St. Charles, MO and was just sleeping in my dorm. My roommate was gone. I think the guys in the room over from us were gone too. Suddenly, I just heard a screeching alarm and the fire alarm light was flashing. I opened my eyes thinking, "Are you fricken serious". I got out of bed and tossed some shorts and a shirt on and peered up and down the hallway. No smoke or anything but I was on the fourth (and top) floor of the building. Don't know if there's a real fire or some dipwad was screwing with the alarm. I go back in my room and pick up my phone, wallet, tablet, book bag, and notebook. I brushed my teeth and walked out. I met someone else in the hallway and asked them what for whoever's stupid sake was going on. He told me it was just a test.

Good job testing the fire alarm at 8:30 in the morning.

[K1ng_0f_N0thing]

I live in a 3 story condo apartment thing, on the top floor. Some idiot left a lit candle on the edge of a table when she left to pick up her son. Turns out it fell down and the fire spread. Nothing major happened, everyone was ok, but the hallways smelled bad. i think I made a topic about it when it happened.

[Pie Crust]

Fire alarm rang, the fire was in the lab I was working in.
I kept on working, not giving stuff while my classmates started to panic.
One of my classmates didn't give a forget either, like myself, walked outside.
2 minutes later, he comes back in with a CO₂ fire extinguisher.
Fire gone, everything back to normal.
20 minutes later, firetrucks appear, lol.

[Alyx Vance]

At my old school a couple of light fixtures caught on fire. They both went out the same way: They'd flicker for a few minutes and then they'd catch on fire. Luckily it was a small fire and didn't really mean anything. The first fire melted the plastic and burned someone, the second one went unnoticed by most of the class. They both went out on their own.

[The Resonte!]

At my old school a couple of light fixtures caught on fire. They both went out the same way: They'd flicker for a few minutes and then they'd catch on fire. Luckily it was a small fire and didn't really mean anything. The first fire melted the plastic and burned someone, the second one went unnoticed by most of the class. They both went out on their own.

yo i think your school is being haunted and it's taking control of the lights

[Dionysusan]

Should've pushed your friend into the fire then saved him so he would be eternally grateful

[phflack]

kind of reminds me of when my dad was in an alarm at a chemical plant
some old man that normally walked with a cane was sprinting faster than the young men who were escaping
because that old man knows the stuff that goes down

[Alyx Vance]

yo i think your school is being haunted and it's taking control of the lights

What's funny is that the principal there at the time said that it was a problem when she was teaching. She knew about the poor lighting

kind of reminds me of when my dad was in an alarm at a chemical plant
some old man that normally walked with a cane was sprinting faster than the young men who were escaping
because that old man knows the stuff that goes down

Grand Theft Auto San Andreas grandma stuff right there.