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Underneath every student's seat, and every teacher's seat, is
a trap-door and a slide. When the fire alarm goes off, all the
trap doors open simultaneously, and everyone slides to a safe
distance away from the building.
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Much, much more incentive for mischevious kids to pull the
old false fire alarm prank. |
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[swimswim], yes, I was totally aware of that. :) |
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These days, however, with all sorts of automatic fire-
detection tech available, the old-fashioned way of
expecting a human to initiate the alarm is indeed
that, old-fashioned. Those poor mischievous kids will
have to hack the computers to pull the prank. I'm
not saying they won't be able to do such a thing, of
course. I'm just saying it won't be quite as simple as
in the Good Old Days. |
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Also, how tall are your stilts, or how small is your
school? Otherwise getting individual slides to
debouche at ground level without interfering with
each other is going to be interesting. |
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Also, what are your slides made of, and how do
you prevent debris build up inside them such that
they don't represent a fire spread danger of their
own? |
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And how, under certain wind conditions, do you
prevent one of them from becoming a chimney
(heat doesn't always rise if you have a venturi
effect going on) and baking the little tyke inside? |
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[MechE], I am aware that the bigger the school, the
more problematic is this HalfBaked Idea. But at least
a couple of your concerns are easily addressed: If the
slides were tubular, they should stay clear of debris.
And if the trap-doors close afterward after letting
the people through, then there is now a barrier
blocking a venturi effect. |
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Build the school above a huge swimming pool. Et Viola. |
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Bad news for non-swimmers ... "Your lifejacket is under your seat" ... ? |
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Really having all those individual doors and slides risks one of them will suffer mechanical failure - for example small kid fails to fall thru after fire starts, large kid lodges in chute or falls thru when there is no fire, etc. |
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The entire floor should swing down and deposit the contents of the room into the slide. This would also function to save computers, books, school pets and other valuables. |
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One problematic aspect would be if this system were triggered in the room where the fire was present. The pool addition would remedy this. |
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How about this: upon fire detection, 10 gallons of ice
water are dumped on each seated child (20 on the
area near the fire alarm trigger). |
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Who are you and what have you done to the real [Vernon]? |
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The blind teacher? The kid in a wheelchair? |
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"Just stay next to the now well ventilated fire, while we wander off looking for water." |
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Are schools particularly problematical with regards
to fire evacuation? Children are small and tend to
move quickly. |
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[bungston], it occurs to me that a truly mischievous
kid might want to be more precise in hacking the
system, say to dump all the teachers only... |
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[21 Quest], excellent news item! I wonder if the
phrase "yet another mass chuting" could qualify for
tagline status here (perhaps a bit too specific in its
applicability, though). |
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Build [8th of 7's] swimming pool ABOVE the school. In case of fire, pull the plug. |
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// Children are small and tend to move quickly. // |
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Yes, it's a bugger ... much better use a shotgun than a rifle. |
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// They also tend to cook quickly // |
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Vernon, your learning. Is this the shortest? |
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[pashute], I can do short postings when they are
appropriate. My shortest is in Fashion,
Body:Piercing, "Neck Bolts" --appropriate to mention
since it is almost Halloween as I write this. |
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[pashute], is changing "you're" to "your" supposed to be an example of
of shortening too? |
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