What Serious "This Is Not A Drill" Moment Happened at Your School?
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2020, i think that is everyone's "this is not a drill" moment.
No, no, 2020 will look like a drill next year.
2021 will really kick our asses.
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Yea no shit
This year was gonna happen no matter what, the world is just gonna get worse. People are too ignorant to acknowledge that
1941= pearl harbor | 2021= 😐
One time there was a “fire drill” at school. Nobody took it seriously. We went outside and when we didn’t go back inside within a few minutes people started freaking out. The fire department came. It turns out some idiot fifth grader had peed on an outlet in the bathroom and started a fire to get out of class. He got expelled. He did technically get outta class tho-
oh- my god.
Same here some kids flicked a switch and set off the fire alarm ;-;
Yo what
Why the hell is there an outlet in the bathroom?
MyNameJeff I don’t even know. My school had a ton of weird stuff
High school. Fire alarm went off and the teacher spends a couple minutes searching through her emails to see if there were any scheduled drills. She shrugs and decides to continue lecturing anyway. Security guard comes in and starts yelling at her. A fire actually sparked in the science lab. We were the last class to walk out of the school.
Yo what the hell? Even if it is a drill no matter what you should bring them outside
Seriously WTF? Like... LADY, you realize that the idea is you do the same thing EVERY time?
Last year in twelfth grade, the fire alarm went off *three days* in a row.
The first time they were burning magnesium in the science lab, the second time was because someone was vaping in the restroom, and I wasn’t there for the third one because I was absent.
The principal called the school to an assembly the next day to address this, because the fire alarm went off *three times* and none of those alarms were fire drills.
We knew they weren't drills because the fire department came *every time,* so yeah.
It was alarming, no pun intended.
Arousing
Once I literally had this drill in case if any criminals broke into school and stuff. Everyone knew it was planned so no-one freaked. Anyway, my whole class were basically in a game of twister because there was no room. It was our first ever drill, but we all knew it would be sometime that week. Our principal came and knocked on the doors and shook them and stuff. I remember the kids whispering how cool it’d be if it was real.
But it was taking over an hour and everyone started crying and stuff. Apparently a bank had be broken into and the culprit was close to the school. Our teacher explained this to us after she got a message. Apparently my principal didn't get the message. All we heard was someone pounding at the door. I didn't exactly understand the situation and I wasn't scared because I had way too much confidence. But everyone else was crying when I went to grab a chair to push up against the door and something heavy to knock the dude out with. After the culprit wasn't within a certain range of the school the principal came to each door unlocking it and telling us what happened.
I don’t know why I thought the bad dude had the key to our classroom, but I said: "Okay. I'm gonna remove the chair. As soon as he walks in, I'll hit him over the head. I nearly knocked my principal out with a metal drink bottle.
What would you have done if you actually knocked out the culprit?
@@Adumzzinthehouse Steal his loot.
Thank you for actually being (me myself and I’s opinions) smart in this situation
I don't blame you, since you thought there was a real intruder in the school.
Short Summary: Criminal Shenanigans
A "go-bag" is just sensible for every person. You will probably never need it, but if you do, it could save your life.
I do remember, in like 5th grade, this dude from the red cross came in, and taught us about fire safety and just emergency safety. the 2 most important things i learned were to always have first aid stuff and basic necessities where we could grab them. The second was that hot mugs of coffee have the potential to start fires. (they really dont)
I have a bag in my car with everything I would need for 24/48 hrs in case of emergency. Nothing fancy, just a spare bra/underwear/socks, spare pair of sneakers, and simple clothes to change into (one set of hot weather clothes, one set of colder weather clothes, though since I live in TX will almost never need cold weather clothes) A few days worth of medications and a case of water bottles and some granola bars. Travel size deodorant and shampoo/conditioner from hotels. Those free toothbrushes/floss/toothpaste my dentist gives me. A small thing of dog food and spare leashes for my dogs. A few twenty dollar bills in the glovebox. A blanket or two just in case. Basic toolkit in case of repairs. Important documents are kept near the front door of my house. I only had to be stranded at the side of the road once to realize how very screwed I would be in a real emergency.
@@PhoenixFireKMS "nothing fancy" it's a great idea though
I used to have one (i was very paranoid for a period in my life) and almost always brought it with me. Now i don't remember where it is as i have moved a lot the past few years, and i don't want to make a new one as some of the stuff in that bag was really nice stuff.
I would advise getting pepper spray for self defense
12 years old and in school, tornado siren goes off, we think no big deal, it's a drill.
Somehow, my class got split up, 10 or so of us ended up in the women's bathroom with our chill English teacher. I learned later the other 20 got mixed up in with another class and put into the locker rooms on the opposite end of school.
Teach had his hand radio and he got in contact with the principal, the drill is real and the tornado is in the field behind the school. Essentially, the wall right behind us, 100 yards of playground, 1000 yards of field, and then tornado.
Teach is no longer the chill English teacher. He gets us 10 kids crammed under sinks and toilets.
We stay like that for 30 minutes, and spend another 45 for the all clear. The school had minor damage and thankfully no one got hurt, it happened right after recess.
tmiddlechild woah
Was reces indoor or outdoor if it was outdoor that would have been crazy
Was this in Virginia because same
My english teacher's chill aswell but when he yells he goes really pale it's a thicc spook
@@misery_fell Recess was always outdoor unless it was -10F or lightning, so yeah, it was outdoor that day
My school legit had a school shooting. And everyone at first was like 'wtf' then promptly started freaking out
What is the whole story?
Just recently this previous college semester, the nearby Air Force base had a lockdown. Loads of us in the dorms were discussing updates with each other and I did my best to calm my friend down
Things were alright in the end
I feel like that’s the one flaw in drills. If a student is the one bringing a gun, or a bomb, they know exactly where everybody’s is going and exactly what everyone’s doing.
Do they tell you students when a drill is on? We never had this information beforehand, the alarm started and we had to leave the buildings. And only the director and a few teachers knew that it was a drill, they wanted our real actions to see where things could be made better.
Seleya V. Sometimes they tell us when drills are but sometime it’s completely spontaneous
@@seleyav.7101 At my school it's very rare they don't tell us like a week before
They don't say for me but the teachers tell us anyway because they seriously can't be bothered having us act naturally.
Ive always been terrified of the event of a shooting happening during a fire drill.
“Terrible as it is, I just imagined you getting shot and turning to the blood donation people like “Hey imma need that back.””
That made my day
The shooter standing there letting you calmly ask them for your blood back and undo the donation: 🗿
Your in the hospital a week later and you get donated your own blood lmao
Three separate occasions over the span of 2 years at a school.
Story 1: I wasn't there that day but a friend was. Fire alarm went off, and everybody ran out to the nearby church, as planned, hopping fences sprinting away from school. (Horrible school plan, basically everyone for themselves) turned out someone burned popcorn.
Story 2: everyone was eating lunch, so me and most of my friends didn't hear the lockdown alarm, one friend grabbed us all and ran for th classroom, bit the door was locked, so she ran for the class next door. We asked the teachers assigned to going between classes to make sure we were quit if it was a drilp, he told us yetls but it turned out there was a some high dude yelling at kids through the fence
Story 3: me and a friend were walking out from behind the upper grade buildings, we had just come out of our 2nd period (which was on the back of the building away from the rest of the school) and we were now on the side of the building walking to lunch, when my homeroom teacher popped out and said "GET. IN. THE. CLASSROOM." "Huh?" "NOW" we went in and they said there was a lockdown drill. You could hear it in the classrooms, but there weren't any speakers in the back of the building. Turns out that two people had robbed a gun store, crashed into a building about a ¼ mile away, and had cocaine and Marijuana in their van. Went running past our school with automatic weapons. They split up, i have no clue what happened to them
Back in 7th grade the lock down announcement went over the intercom for the second time in the day. I was out in the hall running an errand for a teacher. My school had single stall bathrooms (about the size of half a parking spot), so me and like 5 other kids squeezed into a tiny bathroom shoulder to shoulder thinking we were going to die. About an hour later we heard people screaming. Then someone unlocks the bathroom door and points a gun in screaming to put our hands up, meanwhile everyone is basically crying and screaming. Thankfully someone just accidentally re-triggered the lock down (it was a code on a phone and someone hit redial) which automatically called the police who thought it was the real deal along with everyone in the school.
Most terrifying and uncomfortable day of my life. I just remember being really sweaty and my knees aching so bad from having to squat in a weird position so we could all fit.
Edit: according to my friend some kids were in the cafeteria at the time and the teachers made them basically build a wall with the tables to shield themselves
I lived in a mining town, and one day in grade 8 (I was 13, in 2010) I was lunch monitoring a grade 3 (8 yo) class with my friend. Lunch ended, and we were packing our bags to leave when the teacher of the class rushed in, closed and locked the door, and told everyone to sit. She quietly spoke to us separately, explaining we couldn't go back to class, and she would call the office to tell them where we were so we weren't marked missing. She told us to stay calm, and help her close and lock the windows, and just hang out with her class because the mines had set off an alarm and we had an environmental lockdown, because the mines had believed they accidentally released a toxic gas into the environment. The entire school locked down and we tried to stay calm and not tell the younger kids what was happening. Later we were let out after the mines let us know they didn't release anything, so not a drill but everything was okay.
Also we had a lockdown for hours because there was a bear on school grounds.
a bear on school grounds... Are you in Canada or Russia?
Same for the bears
i love how u told the false alarm story very detailed and then just casually mention the one where it turned out that there was “actual” danger lmao
hey, we had a bear incident once too! definitely a different place though haha
Old joke Incoming: In Russia bear teach you!
Well I didn't go to school, but I nearly lost Fiona to a short and strange Lord Farquaad
Shrek is love...
@@dubuyajay9964 shrek is life
Love this comment
Tough shit brotha, hope she's ok
How many people did u murder for that name
one time there was a lockdown in 5th grade. i was in music, and we didnt hear the announcement over the sound of recorders. it turns out someone's parent didnt check in at the office or smth so we werent in any real danger, but my teacher was nearly in tears when she came to bring us back to class.
As importaint as they are, I always get slightly confused as to the whole "locate everyone somewhere central" during Shooter Attacks because you're just making it easier for the more prepared ones!
Like, say a school has four wings and a central courtyard and standard procedure is to shelter immediately , four guys armed with the blueprints could systematically butcher the entire school!
..... I'm gonna keep an eye on you
@@Jerry-cg9ni Sometimes you have to think like a criminal, to catch one.
They brought up a good point, that should be thought about more often.
Edit: I forgot to say, though this is likely a joke, just thought I’d say anyway.
This is the most scary incident in my life:
(Warning, it’s super long)
I was on vacation at my beach house the day after Christmas. I was asleep at the time but I was woken up when I heard someone pounding on the glass doors on the top floor. My mom ran to see what it was and I heard her scream. I yelled “What’s wrong?” But she told me to stay in my room. I heard somebody out of breath talking. Soon everybody in the house was up (4 people). My parents didn’t calm down and I assumed somebody else was at the door. This was a few years ago so I don’t remember exactly but this is what I think she said: “Guns. Chasing me. 3 men with guns. Their after me. Help me.” Than my parents ushered her into their room which is on the opposite side and the most protected than the front. My parents to me and my younger sister and told us to go in the attic because if there were people with guns the probably wouldn’t shoot up there. So me and my sister get put in the attic (it’s the middle of winter) We had a blanket to share. My dad went out of the room to call the police and my mom tried to talk to the lady. The lady took a swing at my mom, after my mom was trying to help her. I heard some cussing from downstairs. My dad came back still on the phone with the police and he says to talk to the police. The lady takes the phone and says: They are holding me hostage! There gonna kill me! My parents yank the phone away because she was lying. I forgot what she said her name was but she was probably 20-30 years old. The police arrive and since it’s so cold, my parents put a blanket around the lady. She tries to run from the police and barfs on the blanket. Later, while the police are still here a random guy shows up and tells my parents that she was at his house and that she ran away. The ambulance takes her somewhere. That was the last we ever saw of her. She was on drugs and hallucinating the men with guns. Might I also told you that the only thing she had on was a pair of jeans and nothing else?
It’s a good thing that it wasn’t anything life threatening
Yeet
wow - that's really creepy
Most likely someone with schizophrenia that had a bad episode and ran away from her caregiver.
can i have a tl:dr?
My third day being a NAC at an adult in home care facility, there was a gang fight across the street and we had to do a total lockdown without scaring the residents
We just told everybody it was international nap day and we were shutting all the lights and blinds and locked down every door
I was 17
That honestly kinda cute
Broooooo 😂😂😂 Nice one
“International Nap Day...”
I should have probably mentioned this was a dementia care specific facility 🤭
Time to go to sleep children
In school a couple years ago, there was an incident with a weapon at a nearby school. We went into full lockdown and we got to skip out on part of a test. It was an even a bigger deal because that school was where all the busses come from to get everyone. This also happened 2 hours before school ended so there was still 5 squad cars and 2 ambulances. It was a big deal for the next two weeks.
Wasn't an emergency but I'll never forget the time we were all called in for a school wide assembly in the middle of the day, our school was pretty small only about 400 for the whole place and most classes were only 20-25 people, we all assumed someone has really screwed up because our Head Teacher was presenting, but then he opens with "I have been a head for over 30 years now and this is without a doubt that hardest part of my job, and in the previous 3 times I've done this it has never gotten easier" and it begins to set in what happened, you could hear a pin drop in the room as we got told that night before a student died of sudden onset heart failure, he was pretty well known around the school and was super friendly to everyone, I only spoke with him a few times myself so I can't pretend I was friends with him but it was just a school wide shock, a good few teachers were clearly crying or had just been, and needles to say not much got done the rest of the day, happily no one tried pulling the clout routine and faked being his friend after, was just a very sudden "oh crap this is serious" moment
That moment when your cafeteria catches on fire and everyone has to stand outside for an hour just to realize it was a VERY small kitchen fire that was quickly put out but kept triggering the smoke detectors.
At least it didn’t become a big kitchen fire and you weren’t locked in. You hear that a lot in a number of disaster videos, the alarms don’t work, the fire gets deadly in seconds, the fire escapes are padlocked shut and/or the building is made of a material that is highly flammable (usually not schools though, more likely to be factories or public places).
so this one teacher we had was the best her friend gave her some rocks we could open up and look inside so my teacher grabed a hammer and tired to break it apart sadly she didn't know it was flint so when she hit it it caused huge amounts of sparks go and enough smoke to cause the fire alarm to go off which is funny because are funny alarms are like 100 years old
Omg that exact scenario happened to my dad when he was in middle school
Wasn't even a fire. The lunch tray washer just broke and we had to skip lunch because it broke right after everyone got their food
Heh. Have had three "real" fires in all my time as a student and as staff. First at my high school, someone kept setting the bathroom trashcans on fire, and one got REALLY out of hand enough that we were outside for a WHILE. When we went back in, we could definitely smell the smoke. At the school I work at, we had one kid set a trashcan on fire once and some kind of small kitchen fire another time.
First day of middle school lunch time, fire drill starts and everyone is like ok alright. Few seconds later, "Students this is not a drill please evacuate with caution." Turns out tater tots caught on fire.
Lol wow
Were the tater tots ok
@@thelamelime8360 sadly no, we went without tots that day. It was so dark and cold.😔
Nooooo not Le tater tots!!!
Same. Happened on Halloween
LOCKDOWN: We had a lockdown drill and everyone thought it was fine. Then all of a sudden we heard gunshots. We were only hiding in the corner of the room, the teacher let us grab scissors, book, etc. Apparently there was a guy with a gun on the front lawn trying to get into the school. He was arrested, but it still scared me. I was only in 1st grade-
FIRE: One time in second grade, we were in class and the loudspeakers went off saying "Fire, Fire, this is not a drill" all us kids were freaking out while the teachers had us lined up. They had us walk the the middle school which wasn't far. A few minutes later we hear Firetrucks. Apparently there had been a fire in the vents. We sat in the middle school for maybe an hour.
When a student drank potassium cyanide, vomited everywhere, making the whole 2nd floor reek of almonds, and someone pulled a fire alarm inadvertently.
mmm yes, potassium cyanide, a delicacy for highschool students
@@ren-ys9so such a delicacy fr
@@ren-ys9so my favorite
Heard Rasputin likes it as a seasoning!😊
@@ren-ys9so ikr? So pissed you can't buy it.
It’s winter. There’s 2 inches of snow on the ground. My first period class is swimming. I was wearing my 2 piece pink camouflage swimsuit instead of my black one piece. We were doing the 200 yard swim. I had just done my flip turn to begin lap five. The fire alarm sounds. First thing out of my swim teachers mouth.
“What did Wringle do now?”
Mr. Wringle was one of three science teachers. He is notorious for his experiments.
We end up evacuating. The science building was on fire, and Mr. Wringle swore he had nothing to do with it this time.
The science building is on the other side of campus. The fire department allowed those of us in swimsuits to go back in and get dressed. No showers. By this point, the flames had leapt to the math building and we hear Mrs. Leftstand screaming at Mr. Wringle over her precious department currently burning. We hear an explosion. The art teacher, very nonchalantly goes, “There goes my kiln. I was planning to replace it anyway.” The art building is now burning. Fire department moved all 5500 of us to the church down the road where parents were waiting to pick us up.
The science building was a lost cause. The math building lost two classrooms. The art building suffered mostly surface damage.
It actually wasn’t Mr. Wringle’s fault this time. A heater blew. The science building was the original high school, and the materials used to build it weren’t up to standard for a long time. It went up like a candle.
It got rebuilt.
oof
Poor Mr Wringle lmao
Damn
(!)=(!) That's so scary! Its crazy the kiln blew, too.
this reads like disney channel movie
One time there was a small fire at my school on the same day a fire drill was scheduled lmao
I thought it was bill cipher but it was you, Dio!
@@Little_Miss_Carrex k o n o d i o d a
Well at least you know the fire alarms work. xd
Someone think to make thing real
Yawl
Was going to school in Hondo, Texas, on my way back from the second story library my middle school had at the time. I was talking to a girl from my glass who was on her way back from the nurses, we were the only kids we saw the entire time, reached our building, opened the door to find the halls completely dark. Made our way to our teachers door, we knock and a moment later it opens. The rooms dark and quiet, all the kids are on the background sitting down with their knees to their chests. Turns out there was a report of an armed man on campus. (Found out later it was said he had a shot gun) that’s why there were no other kids out, my class mate and I had only missed running into him in the courtyard by a matter of seconds.
At my school we had a fricking lockdown and I was terrified about what was gonna happen and they were already spreading rumors about who it was. I came to class the next day and the Vice Principal is walking out, everyone is sitting on their desks- turns out it was and elderly Chihuahua that caused the lock down and found its way in my classroom-
Let me explain the codes first.
Code green: It’s a lockdown drill
Code yellow: in lockdown, but you can keep teaching
Code red: absolute lockdown
We had a code green at my school to prepare if there was an actual lockdown. Then we switched classes. Bout one minute into the class, there was a code red. After bout 30 minutes, it went to a code yellow. Then went back to a code red for another hour. The closet was hat as balls. I’m a bad storyteller so
TLDR: Lockdown still turns into an actual lockdown and stuck in closet for 2hrs.
we have something similar, except in 1 2 3 levels
You forgot shelter in place, thats what we call it in my school
Kid opened fire on the crowd in the closet
I think mine was a code red.
L O C K D O W N S T I L L
You would think there would be a cut off switch to ovens and stoves when fire alarm goes
On thanksgiving we were at a hotel and a fire alarm went off,
It was because the ice cream shop was cooking something.
yknow that's a GENIUS invention dude!
Usually the fire's too big for that to work when the alarm starts
Lkkvvvvvv
@@TurtleExplosive g
I live in Iowa so I have some stories
1. I was asleep and apparently, there was a very minor earthquake when I was( I couldn't feel it)
2. I was at a summer camp and we were outside and the tornado sirens went off and I looked behind me and there was a mass of black behind us so I BOOKED it into the safe shelter
3. I was at school and we had to go in the shelter.
About 3 years before I got to high school, the school had to go on lock down because a student chased a teacher around the school with a knife, and I mean, this was a whole school complete lock down, not to hide the students, but to keep them safe as this kid chased the poor teacher for 10-15 min, up and down stairs and through every building on the facility, I’m not sure how the teacher got away, since it was while ago, but no one was hurt.
So... This story actually happened to me. Real memories that were kinda scary.
When I was in school one day, our principal called over the speakers and said "All students please return to your classrooms. No exceptions. Teachers do a headcount immediately and wait in your classroom until further notice." Naturally, everybody in the class started freaking out. There had been a gun threat at a nearby high school just a week or two earlier, so some kids thought it might be somebody with a gun. We really had no idea. After about 30 seconds of freaking out, the teacher got us to calm down, just before she came onto the speakers again. "Teachers please evacuate *immediately* Please be calm and organized on your way out. Take the students to (nearby park) over to the pavilion where we will wait for the kids' parents. Do *not* grab bags, instruments, etc. *We have NO time*
Kids are now scared as FRICK. The principal told us to leave our bags and instruments? This is serious!!! Some kids are looking around scared, some kids are making jokes about it, some are just nervously laughing at the jokes, and then there are like five kids crying thinking they were going to die. Everything went well, and nobody told the kids what had happened.
I hopped into the car with my mom and asked her (scared) if she knew what was happening. She seemed surprised that the teachers didn't tell me, and then proceeded to tell me every detail.
Next to our school was a small house with tons of junk and broken down cars outside on the lawn. It had always been there, so I thought nothing of it. Turns out the guy who owned the place had had tons of trouble with police and such and threatened to bomb many times. They kept close watch on his house, but then after a while, they stopped after nobody had seen him for a while. Then, somebody (I don't remember who) went up to the door of his house (for whatever reason) and smelled something awful. Yelled out, to nothing. Opened the door and saw the dead corpse of an old man just laying there. Cops were worried he might have booby-trapped the house before he killed himself, so they evacuated all nearby areas (including my school) before inspecting. Sadly, there was also the bones of a dog out front (who was tied up to a pole- the poor thing.)
Turns out the corpse had just been sitting in the house rotting for about a year. I think I got all the details in there, but forgive me if I got some stuff wrong or something. :)
That's my story. Real fun, huh? Don't believe me? Here ya go, a news article I found about the whole thing. www.kmvt.com/content/news/Decomposed-body-booby-traps-and-dog-skeleton-found-at-Utah-home-491499561.html Happy reading!
That honestly seems like it would be traumatic, and it’s not like anyone can prove you wrong you found a whole news article about it
Oml this is crazy
I'm so sorry this happened
Have a lucky dog and cat 😺🐶 they will give you infinite love and affection!
Clearly the police overreacted here
@@Mario87456 better to overreact than underreact ;P
R10_1112 No since there was obvious no threat to the school whatsoever he only potentially Booby trapped his house that is it.
We had a kid called Matt saying he was going to blow up the school. He said it many times.
In my school almost everyone makes those threats. It's normal
@@klunk4683 I bet you made those threats too, DIO
Dio Brando depends on where you live. Where I live they’d probably shut down the school if they heard a rumor of anything like that.
Oh, I would’ve thought his name would be J.D
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When i was in 7th grade, my algebra teacher had told us this story about like 20 (now 23) years ago, they were having difficulties with their fire alarms. It kept going off every few hours. The last one, she decided that they would stay in class and continue working since it had been going off all day. A couple minutes later, a teacher came in class and asked why they haven't left yet. She explained, and the teacher was like, no, there's a bomb by your classroom (outside, since the classes were in a big building.) Needless to say, she says the story every year, always feeling ashamed she couldve gotten her students killed because this one last fire drill, she decided to stay back. Nothing blew up, it was not an activated bomb. but she still thanks her lucky stars that someone came to her classroom and told her to get out of there.
One time the fire alarm went off, we were all evacuated outside, and we found out that it was caused by one of the staff overcooking their popcorn
that happened at my school too
It wasn’t my school, but I got a text from my brother that said his school was in lockdown. I was so terrified someone would hurt him I burst into tears and had to leave the classroom. The good news was that no one was in the school; it was a hit and run nearby and the school got scared. Nobody was hurt, and everybody was really supportive for me and did their best to comfort me. Definitely a scary time, though.
Third grade. Out of the blue, the principal was on the speaker. Every one was escorted out of the school. I knew something was wrong when they took us to the church half a mile from the school, much much farther than in the drills. We all watched veggie tales for hours, when we finally got escorted back. All the kids kept leaving class to go home. When my dad took me home, my mom told me the real situation. Apparently some dude threatened to put a bomb in our school. While we were not there, the police were searching the school for anything. It was very scary.
The one thing I take from this is "Veggie tales". Oh the memories.
Huh, in my school we always went to the church about a mile away
When I was in Primary school, probably year 6, the fire alarm went off during a Literacy class, I believe (it was just before lunch), and the Teacher seemed pretty confused, and asked his TA (teaching assistant) if there was a fire drill today, she said no. The few of us who heard that immediately spread it to our other classmates.
Being 11 years old, none of us were freaking out or anything, after about 3 years of continuous fire drills, we knew what to do. We went a different route to the other classrooms since we were the closest to a different fire exit, so we didn't get the chance to grab our stuff (school didn't let you do that but the other classes' escape route went past the pegs and lockers, so they ended up grabbing their bags quickly despite the teacher yelling at them)
And so we all stood there in the cold winter at around 12pm, mildly concerned. A few of us believed it was a genuine fire, and my friends and I were freaking out about our bags, a few of us had brought stupid 11 year old stuff like toys and jewellery stuff along those lines that we needed to bring home.
Since, you know how whenever you bring your favourite bracelet or hot wheels to school and your parents say if you lose them you'll get in trouble? Yeah that's what we were concerned about. I didn't have anything in particular, but I had my favourite books in that bag, and my favourite coat
Turns out after we stood there for 20 minutes, a year 1 kid (like 6 years old) just slipped and pressed the fire alarm button. A lot of kids in our school hated him for a while lol
Another thing that was more just funny, was in year 5 when we were learning about the units, like, ones tens hundreds, stuff like that. So in the middle of that lesson, the fire alarm went off, so we just sat there waiting for our teacher to tell us what to do, but he just.. continued with the lesson. After a few seconds I said "Sir, that's the fire drill." and he was like "Oh it is?!?" as we all were shouting "Yes!! We have to go outside!!!" And stuff like that. That teacher was my favourite and still is after all these years, it gave us a good laugh when it was over
My school used it clocks as an Alarm, so the person that was doing the crime wouldn’t know,
For example, code green was normal “loud speakers”
Code yellow was when the clocks would spin fast clockwise.
Code red was when the clocks spun counter clockwise
Very clever.
@@Demonetization_Symbol it was lol
How would people know to look though?
@@timeisexpensive idk, luckily, we never had to use it
Plot twist: A former student from the school shoots it down 20 years later and remembers the signals
I was subbing for the Redwood City Pre-K system, and for some reason they had me work one school in the morning and another in the afternoon. When I walked into School 2, the kids were acting rambunctious and the teachers were snappish and brusque with me ( and the kids).
Once we got settled down for nap, I found out what was going on. I mentioned that one of the children had told me “ we all went in the closet to hide from the bad guys,” so I asked if they’d had a drill. The teachers exchanged shuddery looks. Turns out, they had been on legitimate, this is not a drill lockdown that morning. A couple of plain clothes cops had been staking out someone’s apartment across the street . When they showed up, the cops came bounding out of the car brandishing guns. The yard teachers just saw to random guys running down the sidewalk with guns, sent up an alarm, and the principal hit the lockdown button with a quickness, and evidently I had walked into the school maybe ten minutes after everyone had just gotten out of the closet.
Pro tip: If some explosively stressful situation happens in the morning, please tell incoming staff members as soon as they walk in the door.
Once at school everyone was in the gym for an assembly and we all heard a big boom. Nobody thought anything of it for a few minutes. Someone noticed that there’s was a hole in a gas pipe by the ceiling. We all had to evacuate and almost had to walk to a school that was a few km away. My class at the time was in a portable so we were able to be inside. Most of the classes were standing outside in cold weather (I’m canadian).
Another story is that once the fire alarm went off and there was a fire right by the gym and it was gym class so we had to get out. (It was small and they got it out quickly) and we had to stand outside in the snow for about 45 minutes.
Also once we had a lockdown in grade 1 and half the class was bawling their eyes out saying “we’re gonna die”
is grade 1 like pre k in the U.S?
One day in 6th grade I was throwing up so couldn’t go to school. That same day a kid thought it would be cool to bring a gun to school to show off. He didn’t intend to do anything with it but his friend still told the principal anyways. Don’t know if I was lucky to be home or if I was unlucky to be out of all the action. I still remember the recorded message our principal sent out to all the parents explaining what happened.
When I was in 8th grade, the last day before spring break, we went into lockout right after lunch. Nobody knew what was happening, and when it was time to change classes, there was a line of administrators blocking the wall length window and ushering us to move faster. About half way through the next class, the principal ordered an emergency evacuation to the elementary school across the street. No one would tell us what was going on, and we weren't allowed to contact our parents for any reason. A lot of my friends and classmates were crying and panicking (I have a very level head in emergency situations, I have a lot of trauma) and despite administrators saying we could move around and talk within our class, the sub I had in that class that day wouldn't let us even whisper to each other, and my friend who is special needs and emotionally vulnerable, was having a panic attack, and he wouldn't let me move 2 feet to comfort her. I eventually did anyway, he couldn't write me up, and if he did, the teacher he was subbing for likes me.
As soon as I saw the title, I got flashbacks to my old high school. It was a very warm October Friday morning, when the fire alarm suddenly rang. Like always, I put all of my stuff in my backpack and take it just in case. So, we all walk out expecting this to be a quick drill and boy were we wrong. After about 15 mins of waiting, I texted one of my friends on the other side of the school to see whats going on. She didn't know either but she told me she left all her stuff except her phone inside and was worried. I told her we will be back inside soon and by this point it was 30 mins outside. Everyone was getting tired of waiting outside so we were all sitting on the curb on the side of the road (there was a circle drive in front of the school but we had a street right across from the school, that was the admin building). Then the teachers showed up to tell us we couldn't go back inside because it wasn't a drill and the air conditioning unit for the whole school caught on fire. It was an hour in and some of the kids who parked their cars across the street had already left. Then FINALLY an hour and 30 mins after we went outside, the teachers said they cancelled the rest of the school day and we could go home now. We were all herded to the farthest parking lot from the school and told to wait there and tell the parents to pick us up there instead of the circle drive. This happened a few years ago, so I don't remember how my friend got her stuff back but I assume a teacher went in and got it for her. Yay! No school Friday! but for the next two weeks we didn't have air conditioning which sucked ass.
No air conditioning for 2 weeks! My Elementary/middle school had grades 4-6. I went to that school all 3 years. It had no air conditioning. It was hell. The school was super getto, and built in 1935
Haha my school had never had ac and it never will. 😣 only like 5 rooms in the whole school have ac I think that includes the teachers lounges
Damn, not having air conditioning at all during the whole time y'all were in those schools is absolutely horrible. My old high school always had wonky air conditioning, some rooms would be insanely hot and others would be super cold. But, even that is better than no air conditioning.
Had an “active shooter” situation and we all hid in the music room closet. I (either being the smartest or dumbest one in the closet) recognizes that it wasn’t anything too serious (no gunshots, screams, etc) and began cracking jokes with a couple of my friends to ease their and the room’s nerves
Btw, the kids were being over dramatic and the “gunman” was arrested right away
Scary.
For me someone had an airsoft gun on campus and they locked the whole school down. A Nerf gun. A CHILDREN'S TOY.
Holy Shinx are you sure they didn’t say Air Rifle? Because THOSE are deadly.
I remember this time when I was in 1st grade when someone had “brought a gun to school” (it was a false alarm) at the high school. U may ask why my school had to go on a lockdown when it was the high school that had a “shooter”. The reason that we went on lockdown is because my elementary school was right down the road from that high school, so the reasoning was that the “shooter” could take their car and travel down to the elementary school and start shooting. I’m really glad it was a false alarm because things could have gone horrible if it wasn’t. Also ALICE (Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate) wasn’t a thing yet (or at least not at my school) so what everyone did was just lock the classroom door, hide by the cubbies, and hope the shooter doesn’t break in. In the case that the shooter did break in, they would just come in, see a bunch of terrified kids and their teacher out in the open and just shoot. So I’m really glad that Alice is a thing now and that case was a false alarm.
A funny thing at my highschool was that the fire alarm would occasionally go off at random times for about a bit and then we would get an announcement a few minutes later telling us that it was an accident or glitch of the system. It would happen during breaks and class periods.
It gotten to the point where after we heard the fire alarm go off without a drill warning prior, we would wait for an announcement for whether it was an accident or not.
During my 1st period class in my Sophomore year, after an increase of false alarms, we actually had a fire emergency. My class freaked out at first but we did follow procedures after being reminded by our teacher that we practiced this lots of times before.
So turns out repeated false alarms can give a delay for when an actual emergency happens
When I was in 5th grade we had a lockdown for about an hour because there was a cougar wandering around on campus. Ahhhh the northwest
This happended in my school in the northwest too o,o
I live in the northwest. Never had a cougar. A homeless guy died behind the grade school, though.
Wow. My middle school just had a random doberman wander Into the building.
chakky oooh that happened to me too, We were about to do the terry fox run then someone in the town said they seen a cougar roaming around our smallish town, The Terry fox run was postponed until next week.
We had a lockdown because a skunk was wandering our campus. I was in elementary school and they didn't trust the students not to wind up getting sprayed by it. In their defense, as soon as it was over a kid found a mouse at the benches, picked it up, and got bit. Kids are idiots.
When I was 10-11 years old I was at school and during a class we all heard weird noises, like something being hit several times, and a few minutes later we heard sirens right outside. It was almost recess, so the teachers sent all students to the furthest corner of the school and wouldn't let us near the school gates. Later, when it was time to go home, a helicopter flew around the area spreading tear gas! Since we were all waiting for our parents to pick us up we were all outside and got sprayed, it was pandemonium, kids were freaking out and teachers were frantically ushering us back into the classrooms. In the evening we found out on the news that the town hall, which is right in front of our school, had been gunned down (those were the hitting noises we heard), and the police threw the tear gas to stop the gunners who were still on the area.
Sad times
I can’t believe that where any kids gassed?
@@atomato0556 The chopper was flying very low and it literally hovered over the school and just dumped the gas on us, so yeah, we were ALL gassed. Ages ranged from 10-15 years old, classes had just finished so the courtyard was full of kids waiting to be picked up. I still don't know who thought it was a good idea to dump tear gas on the area just to stop the thieves.
Inu Kazam that sucks
@@magickelfgirl where there's a blame there's a claim. Hope you got your payday for the gas
Once there was a fire drill. But everyone was like: "omg why now? ugh" and didnt take it seriously. The teacher next to our classroom was panicking and it was weird.
We tried to walk outside via the emergency exit, but when someone said: "hey i smell smoke"
Everyone freaked out and ran outside via the normal exit.
It turned out someone put a trash bin on fire.
Bramblefurr what kind of fuckery is this?
Okay, so I lived in the northern midwest united states when I was younger, where it occasionally snowstorms in the winter. In my middle school, our policy in a fire alarm was to evacuate to the nearby elementary school down the street. Some absolute jackass tossed a lit cigarette into a trashcan of paper in the bathroom, and pulled the fire alarm switch in the middle of a raging snowstorm and nearly gave the entire school hypothermia because we weren't allowed to get our coats in a fire alarm.
My dear friend accidentally put Cup noodles in the microwave Since she’s half blind she didn’t realize she didn’t put the water in the Noodles.
I always put cup noodles in the microwave... but I add water
Ayano Aishi’z older sister Lol and how were your cup noodles?
The Only One Well I don’t know about theirs but my friends was burnt and they had to replace microwave she felt so bad she cried.
Once i smoked out the whole lunch room microwaving a cookie for 30 seconds and they had to replace it. The cookie tasted good at least(i microwave crunchy chocolate chip cookies to make them soft and chewy) it was a funny day. I never got caught for it either somehow.
@@sgtwhisker26 I've done that before they turned full black and stunk up the whole house
When I was in 2nd grade the fire alarm kept going off during lunch and on the last time we went out there was a huge snake and one of the monitors picked it up with a stick and YEETED it into the woods.
do u know which one it was
Snake:hehehe I’ll kill them all
Monitor: NOPE
The day Voldemort came to school!
What type of snake was it lol like what colors I could probably tell if it was harmless lol
@@moonbean657 Light brown with dark brown stripes. It was pretty small so it was more than likely harmless. She just yeeted it cuz we were all screaming our heads off. And 2nd graders can scream pretty loud.
I was working the late shift at the library along with one other student worker when we get a notification (because he was an RA- nobody thought to tell us as the library) that there were shots fired on campus. Thankfully, there were only ten or so patrons, but it was still utterly terrifying to be one of the two people in charge of keeping these lives safe from what we considered a very real threat at the time. I had to put myself in front of five glass doors to lock them and even open the broken door to slam it shut which is something you can hear from a decent ways away. Half the people just left the library to go home, not worried a bit about there likely being an active shooter on campus. The others got irate with us asking them to move to the computer room where they would be safe from anyone shooting through the doors of the building even if they could be seen from there though we kept the lights off. It was concerning how little regard these people had for their own lives in a country where worse things happen all the time (US).
Thankfully it ended up being that someone from our rival school fired into the air in *celebration* of their basketball team winning the game against ours that had just let out.
I still fear what they might have done had their team lost...
I had a school drill, it was like where a principal comes in shakes the door in stuff..but they didn't tell anybody. people where in the corner, scared because it just said LOCKDOWN. and when it ended the whole class was like "why didn't they tell us?" but none had an answer.
When I was in 5th grade (Elementary School) I was eating lunch in the school cafeteria when the principal announced a lockdown over the loudspeaker. We had a feeling it wasn’t a normal drill because normally lockdown drills were all that kids talked about all day and we eagerly waited for 10 minutes out of the normal class period. However this one was unexpected and we had a strange feeling. Soon the teachers and lunch aids closed the blinds on the windows in the cafeteria. We waited for more information but we wouldn’t get any until the lockdown was over. The blinds were not large enough to cover the entire cafeteria windows and we were able to see what was going on. This is when we discovered that it was actually a “Lockout” which is a drill that American schools hardly ever practice except for maybe once a year. However we had already done our lockdown and lockout drills during the spring. For those who don’t know what a lockout is, it is when a threat has been found outside the school building but it is on or near the property. School continues normally but the doors are locked and you are not allowed to leave the room you are in. Me and my friends continued to eat our lunch watching out the window carefully. We see one police car pull up with its lights on followed by two more moments after. There was even a K-9 (Dog) unit and we saw two dogs sitting next to one of the police cruisers while officers stood nearby. Soon the school parking lot was filled with probably close to 7 or 8 police cars and a fire truck. We waited for about 10 minutes until we saw that an armed military hummer (Humvee) full up to the school. This is when the situation really became serious and we saw men get out of the hummer with tactical gear and guns of some sort. After around an hour we were still stuck in the cafeteria (Lunch was 45 mins) and we weren’t sure what was happening. This was when the iPhone 5 was new so probably around 2012 or 2013 and most of us were too young to have phones and couldn’t get any outside information or call our parents. After the lockdown ended we were informed that nothing major happened but a man had apparently threatened the school with one of his grandfathers disabled World War Two grenades. Apparently the grandfather was a World War Two veteran who kept replica and real World War Two artifacts and guns in his basement and his mentally ill grandson took some real disarmed hand grenades to the school.
My school never had any lockout drills (that i remember) but had a thing called “modified lockdown” where it starts as a normal lockdown, but then they go on the intercom and said the changed it to a modified lockdown and we could continue class work and will be slowly 1 by 1 let out of the building (we always would be able to move around the school but no one is allowed to enter/exit)
Here in canada we call our lockouts lock and secure
@@ElizabethCherryBlossom really where I’m from it’s hold and secure
@@kyblestone what country are you from?
@@Demonetization_Symbol Canada
One time in school the fire alarm went off, we were all little kids so we were so scared everything was gonna burn. We all had to go outside. Turns out someone was making a grilled cheese and it burned.
My elementary school had an electrical fire from someone trying to use a toaster when I was in grade 6. Let me add it was 95 degrees farenheit and it happened in the middle of lunch, so we were pissed.
Mirte van Doorn-Blom Same thing happened but somebody warmed up oatmeal (or something idk) and we had to go outside, later a lot of the school smelled like very burnt popcorn and smoke
This was in the 5th grade so I wasn’t scared just rather confused
My school had a lock down cause the vice principal got locked out! LOL HAHA! 😂
Ok so here’s my story
I was in the 6th grade and was eating lunch. Then all of the sudden an automated message pops up on the speaker. It says something like, “ This is a code red(Active shooter),seek shelter immediately” over and over. So everyone starts running to the food pantry. I remember just being frozen in shock. But my friend grabs my hand and starts running me to the pantry. There were probably like 50 of us in there. We stayed there for maybe 30 minutes. We finally are allowed to get out, so we just all head back to our classes after that. Then some dumb 7th graders are like, “wElComE tO mIdDlE sChOoL!”. Apparently it was a glitch in the county system, so all the high schools and elementary schools got it too.
I slept through a grade 5 earthquake once when I was 12.
Also, the school I went to for Elementary had three fires while I was there, and I was only there for four years. One was caused by a kid who decided it would be cool to set toilet paper on fire in the bathroom (it was closed for the rest of the year). The other two were in the cafeteria.
Then, in my first year in Junior High (not middle school, Junior high is grades 7-9) a veteran came to give a speech on Veteran's Day, had a heart attack and died at the school. He was one of the teacher's fathers.
Also there was a tornado where I lived once. It was visible from our school and our state hadn't had a tornado for at least 30 years. I was 7 at the time. Yes, I was outside when I saw it. It was all over the news.
Ah, the good ol' days.
The first day of 7th grade and we were doing an experiment thing where the teacher put flour or powdered sugar or something on a piece of paper that was rolled in a tube then she held a lighter in front of it and blew through the tube to make a big fire ball. Right after, the fire alarm went off. That had never happened before in the past years she'd been a teacher so she was kind of scared she'd get fired (no pun intended). She didn't. And it might not have been because of the fire ball and might have just been a coincidence.
Sounds like a cool experiment!
Similar story here... Except someone just burnt popcorn.
In my senior there was a school shooting scare with a grown man having a gun by the school. It was a cramp and scary hour. This was also after hearing about school shootings for over months to a year.
No one got hurt thankfully, but the event was over an hour and scary, we were confused and didn't know what to do after but continued with our other classes after we all told our parents that the event was over now (of course a lot of us would text our parents what was happening because it was a scary event)
A shooting happened at my college say... around 2014-15. A professor fatally shot another in his office and then took his own life in his car. I just had this feeling when I was waking up that morning to just stay in bed and miss my class. The worst part was that I had both professors during my early years, even bumped into the victim at our local Walmart.
One day at school we were all informed of something that made our hands shake, there was a lady that shot both of her children in the woods right behind our school and that she was within an estimated 2 miles of us. It was pretty scary considering that lady used to be a school counselor for a school nearby.
omg thats so scary im so sorry you had to go through that.
This was back in December 2014 when I was in high school. I went to my history class early after lunch. I was the first and only student in the room and the teacher went out to get some paperwork for class. Then the school went into lockdown. I was locked all by myself in that classroom for about an hour or two. All I had to communicate was my phone and I barely had anyone's phone number. My mom informed me through texts that there was a shooting at another school nearby, but no one knew if it was happening at other schools in the district. As soon as they unlocked the door, I bolted out, eager to find someone else to be with until school let out, which just so happened to be the teacher's lounge.
Thank God there was no shooter at our school that day. I don't think I could've taken being alone in a room *and* having a crazed gunman in the same building.
2014...was it near sandy hook?
I was at universal studios, and I was going on the Jurassic Park ride with my family. During the climax, the most terrifying part with the dinosaurs and stuff when the ride is pretending to break down, WHEN THE RIDE ACTUALLY BREAKS DOWN. It was up and running in a few seconds, but with the dinos roaring in my ear as a ten year old was terrifying.
When I was in 2nd grade, we had a lockdown because someone shot a cashier a block away and got away. Our school was one long building and they shuffled us all into the hallways where there were no windows and gave the little kids coloring books and stuff to keep them quiet. They asked 8th grader's to help watch us while teachers patrolled up and down the hallways and kept everyone quiet. At the end of the day, we were told to stand flat against the building while waiting for our car to show up in the carpool line. There were about 4 or 5 helicopters circling in the sky, still looking for this gunman.
Same year was the year of the Nisqually quake. Church was just ending when it hit. I remember it in snapshots. First I remember the chandeliers swinging. Then I remember being under the pews with kids crying around me and someone saying we would be okay. Then I remember getting home, my mom looked for the cat, and I went into my bedroom up find my bookshelf had fallen over. I remember the indignity of it because I had just cleaned my room and it was a mess again. Not my favorite year.
Then when I was in 8th grade, we had a couple partial lockdowns. The first was during an otherwise regular day. My teacher was talking and he got a call from the office. He stopped talking to answer it then put the phone down and continued teaching like nothing was wrong. But he went around and started closing all the windows and closed the classroom door. None of us were fooled. This teacher loved having the windows and door open. It was weird having them closed. Then we weren't allowed to have recess outside. Suspicions confirmed.
The second one happened after an incident that occurred during after school activities. We were practicing for our school play when a group of boys showed up with bats and knives. My teacher, having a history of high school wrestling, pinned one of them and another teacher disarmed one of the other boys. But they kept us all indoors while police got things under control. Fun times.
My Elementary school caught on fire. That was 6 years ago...I'm a Firefighter now.
Nice
Is that what inspired you to become a firefighter?
When I was in freshman year I went to a very Mormon school for the last semester. The fire alarm started going off. No one was taking it seriously because it wasn't a school where the kids did anything that teachers could find out about. One of my friends in the student council mouthed to me "not a drill". We evacuated. Someone wrote on the bathroom wall about having a bomb in blood.
Also, I woke up very early in the morning to hear tires screeching and a loud "boom". I looked out my window and saw a jeep had hit the tree in my front yard, the tire followed the tree up and essentially launched the Jeep. It landed in the driveway right behind our cars on its side. I ran to my parents' room and yelled until they registered something was wrong and got up. Alcohol everywhere outside the jeep. The Jeep was stolen.
Also, A fire alarm in school. We all assumed it was a drill until we saw the smoke. It was a burnt hotpocket in a teachers room. A firetruck never showed up.
Someone left a toaster plugged in all night in the staff room at my elementary school when I was in grade four. It started an electrical fire. We were just starting to file into the classroom in the morning when we were told to evacuate. I remember waiting for almost two hours outside in Canadian winter temperatures without my mittens and it was awful.
My mom is a high school math teacher. One year there was a bomb threat. The next day all classes were canceled all teachers met off campus for additional training. And administration were in the parking lot waiting for the bomb sniffing dog. Everything is covered right... wrong. The administration people hear a loud boom and head off to find where the bomb went off. It was the janitorial staff (who had not been told?) setting off gopher bombs. Another time there was an "active shooter " lockdown and local swat teams were sweeping the buildings. There were 4 men all 6+ feet who pulled her into the teacher break hallway and asked questions. One student was wearing a hoodie that matched the description (couldn't have been the person but was searched and questioned briefly). There was no shot fired, though someone with a gun was seen just outside the campus. Worst part was parents flooding the parking lots to get their kids when they were told to not be in the area because they could endanger themselves.
Something weird happened in my third-year class, there was this smell spreading across the school and me and about fifty other students got headaches and were getting nauseous so the school thought it could be some sort of gas leak and sent us all home. It turns out someone microwaved hand sanitizer. *WELCOME TO PUBLIC SCHOOL-*
We had a tornado warning so they had to lock down the school. Everyone just went out of the classrooms to look outside lmao
Bruh at my old school the hallways were OUT IN THE OPEN so if a hurricane /tornado it would be bye-bye for you if you were in the hallway
Oklahoma? My 6th period computer science teacher let me leave early my senior year because there was a tornado warned storm entering the country and I needed to be out to help coordinate and spot in my zone of the county. (I’m a registered spotter)
@@southernoklahomamopars6726 no iowa lol
@@jesusRamireZ-mr6bm In my school, the hallway was the safest place to be because you were between 2 load bearing walls that were made of cinderblocks and steel bars and then filled with concrete. The beams used to build it looked like they could support a 30 story building (the school was 2) and 60" of snow, and the classroom windows were rated for 300MPH winds with heavy debris. Can relate, however, because the school it replaced was made of bricks, breezeways, and asbestos, and felt like it could collapse at any moment.
Tell me you’re from the south or Midwest without telling me you’re from the south or midwest
i remember in middle school when i was an office aid we went on lockdown because there were gunshots heard between the middle school and the high school. i remember hiding in the hallway of the offices and all the parents that were there to pick up their kids had to come in and so did a few police officers. it wasn't too scary but it definitely got me wondering
one time at my old elemantry school, there was a "fire", there were fire trucks, fire alarms going off, smoke, but the "fire" was just the furnace making smoke bc it turned on for the first time and was dusty
We had a lockdown at my middle school because someone robbed a nearby Pizza Hut with a Hatchet. Also another time we had a fire drill because someone had cooked popcorn in a microwave as a snack and it burnt and set the fire alarms off
*he couldn't out pizza the hut*
Man really wanted a pizza
My favorite emergency story was when I was training a new girl at work. She had just moved to our state. She had never heard much about tornadoes. On her first night at the store we're locking up, and literally as I grab my keys the sirens go off. The siren on our block was literally feet from the parking lot so it was very loud. The girl goes "Is that an air raid?" Her husband who was waiting in the car to pick her up burst through the door with their two children and practically threw her back inside. I locked us back in. We ran to the back and had the children crawl under a counter near the office. The store alarm started going off. The wall were shaking, a baby was screaming and the little girl was crying. My boss immediately calls me wanting to know why the alarm is going off. I try telling her we are stuck inside because the tornado was literally right on top of us. She can't hear me over the storm inside the building the wind is so loud I just scream into the phone "BECKY WE'RE GONNA FUCKING DIE I HAVE TO GO!" and hung up. There was a metal sound like creaking and several crashes. After it was over I promptly called my boss back to explain. She seemed very annoyed that I hung up on her. Nothing else. Not the shouting. Not the cursing. She said she wasnt finished speaking and not to hang up on her again. I had hung up to crouch down and cover my head as the walls were coming apart. The next day she came in to see the damage to the building and said only "That did a lot of damage." All of our exterior furnishings and trash cans were gone. Like not even down the street just gone. The pavillion off the back was gone. A part of the wall was gone near the cooler where the metal had been ripped off. Part of the roof was gone. So my friends first three days in this state on the third day, the first day of her job we all almost died. Is ThAt An AiR rAiD? BeCkY wE'rE gOnNa FuCkInG dIe!
I have two instances in my head that are clear enough for me to think out,
1) 4 or 5 grade there was an active gunman in our neighborhood where I went to school, so our school went on lockdown luckily it was just after lunch when this happened so we had all eaten. We were stuck in the classrooms the rest of the day, and when any of us had to go to the bathroom let's just say we had to just not think about whoever's in the corner
2) April 2020, I was at work at Circle K when this guy comes in I is kind of glazed over probably on drugs or something I'm talking to the security guard the guy he asked the card to take his gun off and remove the bullets from the gun. When our guard refuses to do so the guy jumps on him and starts to beat him and wrestle to try and get the gun out of his hand, I managed to bolt out and get to somewhat safety and I put my phone out of my pocket and call 911. About a minute after I called 911, I hear our guard shout he's got my gun. I pulled out this damn store and tell everyone outside to scatter, and I'm running well on the phone telling the police to get there as soon as possible like literally 3 seconds ago. They make it to us in we're all okay our guard had a tiny cut on his arm but nothing serious, but boy was that one scary
My "not a drill" moment is the day the apartment complex two blocks away caught fire. It was an old nursing home that had been converted and the residents there were the poorest of the poor you had ever met. We saw the smoke before we heard the call on the radio and within minutes my mother was out the door and up the street; after that the night is a blur of people in our home and I remember taking care of many small children and using every sock we had for their bare feet.
Once in my middle school in the dead middle of winter in Connecticut, someone "accidentally" set off the fire alarm. We were told it wasn't a drill, and people all over just got to the door asap, and it was sleeting outside. And nobody could get a coat or nothing. We stood out there for about 30 minutes until we could go back in, and we had to wait for 20 minutes to do anything, as the majority of my class was underdressed and were all shaking, and I was one of Only,like,4 people wearing pants and sweatshirts, and not freezing.
Notice how the re-acurring theme is fire. Man, fire is so dangerous . Edit: Also school shooters. They are very dangerous and it hasn't happened yet but I hope it doesn't happen.
We went under lockdown at my school and then hard lockdown where we have to hide. We were there for a while when we finally, got out we didn’t know what happened. The next day we learned that a kindergarderenr had brought a knife to school
@@sophie.7990 Omg. I think that would still be a huge threat considering that kindergarteners aren't the brightest.
My older brothers classroom caught on fire in elementary school (I went the same school but a different class because I was in a different grade) and I was crying because all I knew was there was a fire in my brothers classroom and I was too little to understand that he wasn’t in any danger at the moment and my brother and his friends were joking about a rat smoking in the vents. Turns out some water just got into the vent system and it was a small fire and not that big of a deal but as a 9 year old with anxiety hearing that there was a fire in my older brothers classroom was horrifying. Still though the rat smoking in the vents joke is funny to me now that I understand the situation.
@@sophie.7990 oh yikes no one got hurt right?
@@six4655 MY gosh. But honestly, that joke about the rats smoking in the vents sound funny.
as someone who's only been in one emergency and countless simulations, it sucks to have a "freeze" reaction to fear in an emergency situation. because out of all the things you can do, that one is one that will easily get you killed. thankfully there are usually people around me to jumpstart my body into a reaction.
I had a lockout "drill" in 2nd grade. A bank 3 blocks away had been robbed and the dude was outside of my elementary school. We could see his feet through the windows in the gym (in the basement) and they straight up had us continue our gym class tag game, and didn't tell us what was happening to keep this group of 7 and 8 yr olds calm. I loved that school. They were good at what they did.
I still remember this
When I was in second grade there was an intruder alert
Everyone was quiet when it happened
Turns out someone accidentally pushed a button or something
Later we got papers to take home so our parents would know what happened
I was in year 7 when a kid in the room across from us started throwing chairs and threatening kids in that class with knives.
we had to go into lockdown for about 20 minutes, but I mean it's not like we were doing work anyway
Some of you during an eartquake: PANIK
Me, a chilean during a 7.5s: sips juice while walking outside
School was briefly evacuated when a pipe burst in one of the hallways. I remember walking toward the bus entrance, looking left, and seeing water pouring from right above the AV room door. Eventually walking back in and the floor in that hallway was flooded.
Girl: makes toast at 4:00 a.m
Universe: ima do what’s called a pro gamer move
Toaster: *yes*
Pastel Raccoon :P fire: LET THE GAMES BEGIN!
Two stories!
1. In school in 2019, during the 7th grade, I remember there was a fire in the downstairs bathroom (This was during 5th hour), I severely disliked the smoke in my lungs, so I used my hoodie to filter the air. One of my friends was crying, so I tried to console her.
2. It was heavily raining one day I was at a normal program, we had to be ushered out of the Frisco room and into another area because it was a tornado warning.
So when I was in 7th grade, some of the classes got to see an early performance of the drama club's show. Me and my friends were enjoying it then all of a sudden, a voice comes over the announcements,"Attention. There is an unknown individual in the building. Please evacuate immediately." Everyone was screaming. Some kids were crying. We ran out the door in a panic. Later, we all learned that it was a drill. We were mad that no one told us. Not even the teachers knew. Our parents were mad too.
When I was in like 1st grade my class was outside for an extra recess, after a few minutes everyone started going in and I didn't notice until a teacher came to get me. Turns out there was a lockdown because two guys were fighting in the parking lot (Which is right next to the recess area) and one of them had a knife. People were saying that one of the guys was the dad of someone in my class.
When I was in the 6th grade, we had to leave because of a chemical spill. The chemistry teacher had fainted. It was wild.
During high school freshman year we were in band class and the fire alarm went off. We thought it was a drill except we'd had one not long before and it was early morning, not a likely time for a drill. Turns out one of the coaches had put the athletic clothes in the dryer and forgot to clean the lint trap, so the dryer caught on fire
What did you play? I like band lol
I'm also curious as to what you played
@@misery_fell I played tuba
Once, we were having an earthquake drill in elementary, and the alarm just wouldn't stop going off. It would go on for minutes, then pause for just enough time to make you think it was done, then keep going again. A few classes were canceled because of the disruption.
The best moment for a alarm going off at school was from a kangaroo jumping through the school, people thought the hopping was shots being fired 😂
Just about as Australian you can get lmao
One time in my fourth grade, we were told to hide in a corner not visible through the doors, lock the doors, and turn off the lights. Most of us laughed at it for the first 30 minutes but soon we grew anxious. By the first hour most of half the students were quietly sobbing into their pants. Sometime around that hour the intercoms came on and we were told that it was a drill. Later found out it was a dude holding a knife. He hadn't taken his prescriptions of some sort. Gotta say it certainly made me realize I wasn't safe even at school.
One time in the 4th grade, the fire alarm went off randomly. Mass hysteria ensued until everyone was outside. Turns out, the darn thing just messed up, and no fire existed.
Once I was sleeping over at the Museum of Science in Boston for Girl Scouts. At like 10 at night we were evacuated from the building and ended up crashing some 80 year old mans birthday party (our moms stole drinks lol). Then we took pictures with firemen and played “never have I ever”. Then we found out it was just a faulty alarm. It was really cold out!! Then we went inside and proceeded to sleep in the creepiest room there, the one with all the stuffed animals, not cute and fluffy ones you snuggle with at night, I’m talking taxidermy. And this lady snored so loud and I couldn’t fall asleep at all the whole night (same was for my ENTIRE troop), so I just stared at this creepy bird until 6 am. Thanks GS of America!
I was working at Whole Foods Market in the Fairfax district (Los Angeles,CA) during the beginning of the LA riot's this last June. I was at the freezer section when the I heard of loud crashing sound and saw a guy along with a huge crowd trying to get through the store door and into the store. I panicked and ran to the back out of the store. We ended up in hiding the very back of the store until police had us escorted about a block away and was made to go home. It was the most scariest event I had to go through.
Here’s mine: so every year just before Christmas, I go to a hotel in Idaho with my stepmoms family, me and my cousins were asleep in one room, and our individual families were in their own rooms. (I had left my shoes in my parents room) when at 4 AM the fire alarm goes off and we all evac into the freezing cold. (Felt like getting ulted by mei) later on the fire dept shows up and says we can go back in, i was curious and asked one of the firefighters what happened. Some fuckhead set off the alarm and nearly froze my feet off
Also, there was the time the boiler at my school had some issue and we evacuated, not to mention that one time there was a shootout in the neighborhood behind us