28th September 2010 - Firedril

Something I forgot to write about on Friday was the Firedrill. This had already been postponed as the previous scheduled time the rains had been really bad. This time the sun was out and at 4pm the alarm duely went off. It started pretty lethargically reminisent of the old air raid sirens although once it got going it was penty loud enough and people started to take notice. Once outside we were left in no doubt as to where we were going as the 'mopmen' had been deployed at strategic points along the route to the assembly area, mops in hand, the mopheads covered by a sign that read Capita. Once at the assembly point (rubble strewn, over grown bumpy field) we were then shouted at continually by a member of the facilities team to 'stand in line'....needless to say that this made no difference at all people still milled about chatting to their mates! During this exercise we were dive bombed by a large number of dragonflies, which I'm lead to believe were the biting type! Eventually, we filled our names out on a piece of paper to say we were there - not sure what this was referenced back too but at least it verfied who has managed to get out alive! The only hurdle then was how do you get 600 people who have exited a building from 20 different fire exits back up to the 5th floor using only the lifts - answer is slowly!