By stepknee - 14/10/2009 02:31 - United States

Today, we had a fire drill in my dorm, and I live on the 7th floor of my building. They shut the elevators down and I had to walk down 14 flights of steps. I shattered my kneecap last week. They turned the alarm off when I got to the first floor. FML
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redc1c4 0

elevators can be death traps in a real fire, and are reserved for the fire dept to use to fight the fire anyway. your RA/School staff should have been aware of your injury, and made a plan to help you, and any other resident with mobility/health issues to get whatever assistance needed to safely evacuate. try talking to the housing dept, or, if they are stubborn, contact the FD on the non-emergency line, and ask why the evac plan for the school doesn't address injured or disabled persons. if there is no plan, its a serious shortcoming that needs to be addressed. if they just forgot you, someone needs to get their butt chewed out.

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White667 0

Finally, a real FML. I feel bad for yah, but at teh same time I personally would've just not bothered trying. xD

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OneNightStander 6

Yeah, but at least once they turn off the alarm, the elevators will go back on. Hopefully.

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dahlia_springs 0

wow, my dorm has fire drills like every other week, but that really sucks

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LemonadePink 0

If it was just a drill, and you knew it was, you shouldn't have gone out of your way to do that in the first place...

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miyon_fml 0

It might be possible that he found out it was a drill after the fact. Or, like in my old dorm, during a drill the RA's would check every room on their floor to make sure you didnt try to skip the drill.

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suckmorethanme 0

shouldn't use elevator during fire anyawy, quit complaining.

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DoomJeff91 2

Yeah, they reserve it for the rich people.

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suckmorethanme 0

Uh, they disable them so you don't get stuck and burn to death when the fire knocks out the electricity.

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redc1c4 0

elevators can be death traps in a real fire, and are reserved for the fire dept to use to fight the fire anyway. your RA/School staff should have been aware of your injury, and made a plan to help you, and any other resident with mobility/health issues to get whatever assistance needed to safely evacuate. try talking to the housing dept, or, if they are stubborn, contact the FD on the non-emergency line, and ask why the evac plan for the school doesn't address injured or disabled persons. if there is no plan, its a serious shortcoming that needs to be addressed. if they just forgot you, someone needs to get their butt chewed out.

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_Noon_ 0

This. You might even consider to sue them. But that depends on how many years you still have to go there.

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aero_fml 0

Wow.. you're going to sue them? People need to grow up

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lheyra 0

..hmm.. then again, it would be a great help paying for the rest of their education. depending on how much the school costs. a friend of mine attends some univ. in Florida is paying 400K a semester...

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fatraptorjesus13 9

if it was a real fire she could've died...so why don't you grow up

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nhbasskid13 23

48- that's horseshit. No one in their right mind would pay that much a semester.

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Voodoo_Hoodoo 0

One if u shattered your kneecap you would be in a wheelchair two if you where injured they would have made a special plan about it and three atleast where I am if you are caught in the building during a fire drill you get a felony no matter what. So, I say FAKE.

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giantbee89 0

love the way you know everything about everyone. Do tell-what is your secret??

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Alaskaman 0

I shattered my kneecap and never used a wheelchair or crutches. I just had my leg in a splint the whole time. All you basically need to do is keep your leg straight and you can still walk everywhere - it's just a whole lot more awkward, and on stairs it's especially slow.

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Voodoo_Hoodoo 0

It really depends on how badly you shatter your kneecap but I still say fake.

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bobbysnickers 0

haha if you really were you would have written it God retard

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papadugg 0

During fire drills~since, obviously, your RA knew you were injured~they SHOULD just check you as "out" or however they keep track~you need to stand in the stairwell landing and just wait. During a REAL fire, you're still supposed to wait (for as long as safely possible) in the stairwell landing and let the fire-rescue people evacuate you (and others with mobility issues~they have a special chair that can do stairs for just that purpose, and having a slowpoke on the stairs blocking the speedy exit of others can make a bad situation worse. I broke my knee winter 08 at school, this was the procedure outlined to me. I also got to use the special chair when the ambulance came (I couldn't walk, and I was on the top level of the parking garage) to take me to the hospital~it can do stairs and has special settings (it all has to do with the angle of the wheels and seat) so that you don't pick up a ton of speed going down inclines.

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purplefrawggy 0

I live on the 16th floor of my dorm.

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