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Fire! (drill)
Sep. 11th, 2007 10:12 amToday was the annual fire drill.
Every year there is a fire drill, and every quarter there are new people around who have no idea which way is out. I routinely have people come to my office who are looking for a space in another building. The hallways used to have maps showing the evacuation routes and assembly points, but they showed the assembly point to be in the midst of a building which has now occupied that site for over five years. About two years ago the evacuation maps were removed.
I object. The evacuation coordinator and I just had a talk. The agency which is responsible for building evacuation maps has never been effective, and they'll never make any new ones. The evacuation coordinator can't casually put up new maps for they have to conform to standards of presentation and clarity which include being re-oriented such that they make immediate sense as seen by a person facing the wall they're on -- no matter what direction that wall faces, and the fire marshal can pull down maps which don't conform.
But I have ascertained that a guerrilla effort to post maps may be worthwhile, for nobody is going to send around teams to search and destroy amateur maps.
Every year there is a fire drill, and every quarter there are new people around who have no idea which way is out. I routinely have people come to my office who are looking for a space in another building. The hallways used to have maps showing the evacuation routes and assembly points, but they showed the assembly point to be in the midst of a building which has now occupied that site for over five years. About two years ago the evacuation maps were removed.
I object. The evacuation coordinator and I just had a talk. The agency which is responsible for building evacuation maps has never been effective, and they'll never make any new ones. The evacuation coordinator can't casually put up new maps for they have to conform to standards of presentation and clarity which include being re-oriented such that they make immediate sense as seen by a person facing the wall they're on -- no matter what direction that wall faces, and the fire marshal can pull down maps which don't conform.
But I have ascertained that a guerrilla effort to post maps may be worthwhile, for nobody is going to send around teams to search and destroy amateur maps.
