Talk:Fire drill

what about the bow-drills or hand drills used to make fire without matches or other modern methods? The topic is probably posted elsewhere, but there should be a link.

Fire Drills in New Zealand
I think it's weird that an unplanned fire alarm activation does not count as a fire drill in New Zealand. It's a little redundant. If the fire alarms were legitimately activated and everyone evacuated according to plan, you definitely got the practice in. I know that schools have to plan them in advance. This would be like America's Emergency Alert System - you don't have to do a Weekly Required Test when the EAS has been activated legitimately. CoolSwitch4212 (talk) 15:12, 11 November 2019 (UTC)Coolswitch4212


 * An unplanned evacuation is by definition not a fire drill, however in many jurisdictions an unplanned evacuation can replace a required fire drill. 2600:1006:B184:7B4F:0:52:7FDC:A001 (talk) 06:15, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

Fire drills in Rhode Island
Where does it say in the statute that fire drills must be unannounced and at random intervals? SchuminWeb (Talk) 22:29, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Limited geographic scope
I put the limited geographic scope on this page because there is a lot of information on U.S fire drills but nothing on other countries. If I can spare the time, I will try and improve this article.

Ed 15:42, 28 February 2006 (UTC)


 * I think that another problem is that this article is rapidly turning into a list of fire drill regulations. I'll take care of that one, likely forking it off to its own article.  SchuminWeb (Talk) 06:01, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to see something about fire readiness procedures in China, even if only to distinguish it from the other kind of Chinese fire drill. But I imagine it might not be easy because of the kung fu net. --Damian Yerrick (talk) 18:26, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

shortened form of chinese fire drill
I don't understand why it makes sense to include in this article the fact that the term fire drill is often used as a shortened form of a chinese fire drill if we aren't going to also say that, as a matter of fact, people often use the this phrase without the pejorative connotation. I say we either properly explain the way "fire drill" is actually used or we leave the whole matter about its use out. --24.2.93.224 05:29, 3 September 2006 (UTC)


 * A wikilink to Chinese fire drill exists, which covers that concept in more detail than this article. If a user wants to learn more about Chinese fire drills, then they can click the link and look.  SchuminWeb (Talk) 07:53, 5 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Not sure if I follow since it seems like the question here is how people are using the phrase "fire drill" not how they are using the phrase "chinese fire drill." If it belongs anywhere it would be on the fire drill page though I could see an argument for putting it on both. Thinking about it more, none of this usage stuff belongs in an encyclopedia article on fire drill. I'm going to delete the whole section. --64.161.137.66 10:09, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

New Jersey security drill law! (please read)
Very important article about New Jersey's fire drill law! They may continue with 2 fire drills per month and require 1 security drill per month! http://www.njpsa.org/agr/news.cfm?newsid=941 167.93.38.143 (talk) 14:41, 19 October 2010 (UTC)


 * I'd adopt a wait-and-see approach on this and wait for more sources before modifying the article. SchuminWeb (Talk) 23:13, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

I dislike the tendency towards Yellow Journalism in so much of the Wikipedia content. "Controversy about Fire Drills" get real! There might be some room to debate whether a color-coded fire drill would have helped in any disaster situation. Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden did not achieve their "target", so predictability of target movements didn't optimize lethality in their attack. Variability doesn't seem like a useful factor. As a substitute teacher myself, the concept of trying to know where several different staging points are could make a fire drill a career-ending day for a sub. I think that the way that I've worded the W content now encourages people to read the cited article without trying to sensationalize it. Since I went through the cited article (bleeack!!), I could hardly see evidence that these were thoughts from more than one person and I'll add my editorial that that particular author might want to model his ideas. In a real emergency, the time spent waiting to hear what color was announced over the public address system to assemble at could equate to lives lost. I doubt that most PA systems are tied to emergency power. User:MathInclined — Preceding undated comment added 23:57, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

MathInclined - I'm not a teacher, but I agree with you. Waiting for someone to go over the PA and state which color the emergency is can be a life-or-death situation. User:CoolSwitch4212 —Preceding undated comment added 15:18, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

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Dead reference
The link for Reference 50 on this article does not work anymore. CoolSwitch4212 (talk) 13:03, 22 October 2020 (UTC)Coolswitch4212