I was grateful for an unscheduled
fire drill recently. Our training centre's fitted with smoke, fire and burglar alarms and hooked up to the emergency services too - it's far more thorough than is required by law - but while tests are clearly just tests, there's been the element of doubt as to how it will work at a real event.
I was presenting a course -
Perl, I think - here recently and the alarm directly outside the training room door went off. Course stops imediately. "Probably nothing, but we had better evacuate" says I ... and the whole thing worked a treat. A couple of tiny lessons learnt, and I'm very happy for that.
Oh - yes - it was a "false alarm". A torch was being used to remove old paint, and sufficient had been burnt off to trigger the system. Good to be re-assured that it works.
(written 2005-04-12, updated 2006-06-05)
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