Fire Alarm

[Dskize]

Whilst studying at Newcastle College I was asked to write the script (and act) for a promotional video as part of my coursework,I was studying 'technical theater' so the video was to be all about the different aspects that were involved in the course ,these were lighting,sound,costume yadda yadda.the basic premise I came up with was the discussion to camera as if it it was a prospective student,who then follows myself and a female classmate into a lift and at each floor was a different aspect of the course shown in a specific way.....move over Spielberg

Floor 3 the costume department ,the easiest way to portray this was through the art of pantomime ,as the lift opened a Pyro was to go off and I was immediately transformed into a pantomime dame and my co-person as prince charming in traditional panto styleee, however no sooner was I in full dame regalia when one of my classmates in a stroke of evil genius set off the fire alarm so that we all had to leave the building immediately and congregate at the bottom of Westgate road with every other student in the ****ing place for half an hour ,plus everybody walking by ...b@stard... I wish I'd thought of that.

 

[Cook$]

I sit on msn when I'm taking a dump at work.

Really? I use a toilet.

I was studying 'technical theater'

Sorry..... what?

 

[willg]

The best fire alarm was my first year at uni, a guy had taken the plate from inside the microwave and put a sausage roll in there, set it for about 5 mins and went back to his room. 4 minutes later the fire alarm goes off in the kitchen and the whole building have to leave, about 50 people.

The security department call the fire brigade caus theres tons of smoke coming out of our kitchen. We had to wait in the recpetion for about about an hour at 2 in the morning, half the people fell asleep. The fire brigade come back with the charred remains of the sausage roll and tell everyone tehy can leave except my mate who had to wait around and have a lecture on fire safety

 

[Spike]

Apart from a few real incidents at work when people used to regularly set the place alight my main experience of fire alarms was a paintball tournaments.

Going back to the days before the Millennium as it is today almost every event you would get an early morning call and have to evacuate the hotel. In most cases the cause was ballers tampering with the smoke detector in their non-smoking room.

 

[jagerpirate]

Im a fire warden for my building at work so have to test the fire alarm once a week. I've broken 2 of them in a year.

First time the entire box fell apart so had to rebuild it while the system beeped incessantly at me.

The second time the glass plate you smash to set off the alarm broke during the test, it was at this point I discovered that my work did not keep spares. we had to wait for a new one to be brought over. Sure the beeping from the system isn't as loud as the full blown alarm, its still bloody annoying!

 

[Dskize]

Sorry..... what?

Stagecraft ,how to work in a theatre ,basic stage management and stuff ,seriously it exists.I found out about it when I applied to study Klingon and the course was full.

I eventually got banned from the theatre anyway, I was caught smoking on the fly floor (thats where all the ropes that bring the scenery in and out live) and had to sit through a fire safety lecture from the head of department , apparently the Tyne Theatre had already burnt down once before and they were a bit lary about it happening again.

 

[Lump]

i used to be an arsonist. burn any thing i could. and had counciling for it and all before the age of 10. so set a few off in my time

 

[markhamgreg]

An ex of mine had moved into some flats and just before leaving for the night me and a few of my mates decided to sit and have a chat in the communial living room. It was then decided by one of my mates it would be fun if he wet me with the fire extinguisher. I then took another fire extinguiser off the wall for a bit of payback. Pin out and squeeze. Woosh, my mates, myself the whole bloody room was filled with white powder we could not see a dam thing. Then what happens next the fire alarm goes off. People exiting the building at pace. We found the nearest window and ran and hid behind some cars watching the fire engine come, people evacuting the building in there pyjamas. We laughed so hard, escpecially when we saw our white foot prints from the window to where we were hiding. Good times!