Ever had to evacuate a room immediately ?

We (night crew) had to evacuate to the parking lot 500' away from the building. The fire dept arrived 10 minutes later, found an issue with the service elevator and we went back to work.

45 minutes on cold windy night, glad it wasn't raining.
 

caroln said:
One time on Lake Cumberland in Kentucky where we kept our houseboat I was woken up in the middle of the night by someone pounding on the glass sliding door on the rear of the boat. The marina staff was evacuating everyone because the lake had risen dramatically due to the wet weather and the docks with the boats all in their slips were starting to float away from the marina. Everyone was standing in the parking lot, looking at each other like, where do we go now? They had to set up a "dam" to stop the docks from floating away any further and it took awhile for them to get everything back in place and restore broken electric and water lines. It was a mess.

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Wow! That must have been stressful!
 
CinnamonSugar said:
Never had to evacuate a room/building but when sons were younger, they were out biking and (older of the two) called saying, "Mom, ----'s been hit by a car" Yep, no feet dragging! Daughter grabbed EMT bag (she was in training) and we flew the few blocks to the location.

Son was ok; he had ridden out of a parking lot where bushes blocked the entrance and the little old lady driver didn't see him in time to stop. Fortunately she wasn't going fast. He was in the back of the ambulance being assessed when I arrived. Elderly lady is standing behind the ambulance shaking like a leaf--she probably needed to be checked too, honestly.

My older son told me later, "Mom, you had No Color in your face when you pulled up" and as a fair-skinned redhead, that's saying something!
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That must have been a heart-pounding moment! Glad your son was ok!
 

Don M. said:
We lived in Wichita, Ks. for a few years, back in the. early 1960's, and diving into the tornado shelter was an annual event...3 or 4 times a year, Luckily, we never got hit, but one time a small shopping center about 4 blocks away got destroyed, and there was "litter" all over the neighborhood. When the boss asked if I wanted to transfer to Kansas City in 1965, it didn't take me more than a few seconds to say Yes.
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I have lived in Wichita Kansas twice. The first time I was young and living in an apartment. My husband worked nights and I was alone with our baby. Tornadoes were really scary.

20 years later I lived there again but that time we bought a house with a basement. We went there frequently from April through September. I worked downtown in a state building and between fire drills and bomb threats I evacuated plenty. Most people didn’t rush until the bombing in Oklahoma City and after that people left everything behind and ran for the exits.,
 
This is an after story. We arrived at a motel in Palm Springs to pick up our rental car. Fire trucks, water everywhere, exhausted staff. Some idiot had disobeyed the sign not to hang anything from the sprinklers in his room. He did and it set of all the sprinklers in the hotel. Saturated folks had to evacuate in the middle of the night. Every time I see that sign in a hotel room I think of him.
 
As someone who worked in the schools, I’ve had to evacuate from schools and at one time my office building due to bomb threats. I never felt that the bomb threats were credible, but just a device by a student to disrupt the school while they watched with glee. I think that evacuations were a bit “over the top” as sometimes they would evacuate just in response to a note found in a school bathroom, or scrawled on a wall. Err on the side of caution, I suppose. There was a copycat effect, to be sure.

Other school districts have had threats of gun violence, which was not a problem prior to the Columbine school massacre when everything changed…welcome to ‘Merica!
 
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Once in a hotel room…..half naked , with my other half

knock at the door ……”this is our room , said the other couple “

OMG …this is not the sun dance suite……but the sea mist suite….😵‍💫😵‍💫

yes we fled , and retrieved our bags the next day …😊😊😂😂
 
Twice on the same trip! I accompanied Dave on a business trip. Had to evacuate our hotel room ( which was an old country manor house) in England, and then again in Edinburg. In Edinburg, it was at night. Fortunately, the hotel had provided robes So there were all the guests milling about on the sidewalk wearing identical white terry cloth robes. On the way back to our room, a woman popped her head out of the door to ask what happened! She hadn’t bothered to evacuate! Luckily for her, it was a false alarm.

And then there were all those fire drills at school…
 
palides2021 said:
Wow! That must have been stressful!
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It was definitely weird watching your "house" float away. Everyone just stood there looking at what was happening, totally helpless to stop it. The barrels they strung across the inlet luckily kept the docks from floating too far but the next morning it was crazy seeing all the boats just jammed up against each other. I have to give credit to the marina staff. They acted quickly and averted a worse outcome.
 
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