Fire Drills - Safety is Free!
Discovery Education's Clip Art Gallery created by Mark A. Hicks, illustrator. Went shopping today at a local mall with my daughter and her friend. We were in the mall for about two hours when all of a sudden a loud, blaring alarm was ringing out! I looked around and the shoppers and store workers were nonplussed. Clearly, it was a fire alarm and no one seemed the least bit bothered by it as they continued to go about their business. Since my daughter and her friend were in another part of the mall I texted them and told them to leave the mall immediately. "Already leaving" was what I got in return. (Most likely because they had practiced what to do at school.) Outside the mall, as I waited for the girls, I noticed there were only a handful of shoppers who also left the building. In the distance sirens blared as fire engines were making their way into the parking lot. Still hardly anyone had exited the mall....