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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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Some institutions consider this so serious that staff members may be suspended if they ignore their duties during a fire drill.
This was my first time using a fire drill, and I found the process pretty simple.
It became obvious during the first fire drill that orders to evacuate required specific directives and that overhead pages sometimes were unclear.
Apparently, the call centre was evacuated earlier this afternoon as part of a fire drill, although it's understood to be a false alarm.
The fire drill should offer a realistic scenario involving an ignition, notification and evacuation.
Since we have so many people in the house, Tommy and Kim have to do a fire drill at least every month and send a report to the agency about how we did.

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