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What is a fire drill?

What is a fire drill? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Should we delete(+) this sense?) An organized practice to prepare occupants of an office, school or other public building for evacuation in the event of a fire.
  2. (idiomatic, US) Any pointless, unproductive, useless, or chaotic activity.
  3. A fire starting tool consisting of a wooden rod and an some primitive means of rapidly rotating the rod on a flat surface like a drill until tinder can be ignited.
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It became obvious during the first fire drill that orders to evacuate required specific directives and that overhead pages sometimes were unclear.
You students are in high school and should know what to do when a fire drill happens.
A mock fire drill was central to the plan and was scheduled one week after the in-service program.
In some jurisdictions, the fire department will evaluate new or existing emergency action plans and may be willing to observe the plan in action during a fire drill.
This was my first time using a fire drill, and I found the process pretty simple.
The fire drill should offer a realistic scenario involving an ignition, notification and evacuation.

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