Evacuate?

[aggienaut]

I found a good map of the local fire here, which I believe is as-of today. Note that I commute to work from appx Mission Viejo up the 405 to around the 55 and 405 (you may have to scroll left to see that area but you don't need to zoom in) -- basically the fire extends the entire length of my morning commute!! d=

And no word on it being any more than "30% contained." Its getting a bit scary. /=


*** EDIT 13:49 ***
"Why are all the big doors between sections of office closing?"
"Fire alarm"
"We're havign a fire alarm, now??"
"Yes"
"You'd think you'd hear something"
"Yeah, I don't know."
"Is this just a drill?"
"Probably"
"But it might not be? Who has a fire drill NOW??" .......

So I dunno, my building may in fact be on fire.


*** Okay it is further explained to me that "these doors will automatically close if there is a fire anywhere in the building. However, each floor is self contained and we will only be evacuated if there is fire either on the floor directly above or below us." Brilliant.

Comments

[nibot.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_door

Not a very informative article. My understanding is that they're to make a building into less of a chimney, and isolate fires as much as possible.

The doors are usually held open with electromagnets, so that the fire alarm can release them.

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I noted that they were indeed normally held open with electromagnets. They just.. suddenly all closed. It was pretty creepy.

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

So I read the article, and it, via "unwise actions" led me to discovered that wikipedia has an interesting article on "stupidity"

[mia76.livejournal.com]

dammit i hope you guys are all okay there. i keep hearing shit about this in the news... =( =(