This week, we had a fire drill at work, and it sucked in the worst way. I work on the 27th floor of a 30 story building, and had to walk down 27 flights of stairs to get out. Not only did this take a good 15 minutes to do, my legs were jello by the bottom and it also gave my quads a workout they were not expecting. Which is not all bad, but something that isn’t fun either.
Anyway, I can’t imagine having a fire drill (or real fire) in a building like the john hancock center, sears tower or the new freedom tower, It would take almost an hour to get down assuming your legs were still functioning by the time you got there.
If people just learned to use common sense, fire drills would not be necessary. Besides mass chaos would ensue anyway, if there was a real fire.
