When I first started working in schools, response drills for violent incidents were rare, uncomfortable, and often avoided altogether. Fire drills, on the other hand, were routine—scheduled, practiced ...
On March 4, 1908, a fire erupted at Lakeview Elementary School in Collinwood, Ohio. Among the frightened students was 9-year-old Niles Thompson, who, in a desperate attempt to escape the flames, lept ...
LOMPOC, Calif. – The Santa Barbara County Fire Department is holding a series of live fire drills this week during the final few days of a training program for a group of firefighter recruits. On ...
Rule 1. The fire drill must never feel useful. It may be a proven way to help save people’s lives, to say nothing of being a legal requirement in many workplaces. But it is important that people ...