Well, when my plumber installed my gas dryer, he also installed a new CO detector, but he certainly didn’t give me instructions about having an evacuation plan.
Employees expect there to be drills and it would be interpreted as lack of caring not to have them in workplaces.
There was a hospital fire last night in Pennsylvania. I hope there was good disaster planning and training. Legally, maybe they are in better shape if there also were partial drills. I doubt there is any factual evidence that spending time on drills, as opposed to, say, desktop exercises, would have helped medically.
In theory, there could be more deaths with unplanned drills because people then think that a real fire is a drill. But I cannot find evidence that drills either help or hurt.
We just had our heat pump replaced and the contractor also installed a new CO detector without providing any information about it at all. Technically, they were at fault. But it happens a lot. Doesn’t mean that they complied with the State Code, but I’ve sort of come to expect it. I teach classes about this to contractors and sometimes I feel like, “Why bother?”
He provided some information. He told me he was required to install it. He stressed that it was valuable to have. He told me why he put it where he chose to put it. 
That was good of him. In my case, I asked, “Why do you have to put in a CO detector? It’s an all-electric heat pump system. There’s no combustion anywhere.” He said, “I don’t know. We just have to.”
That was my question. That’s just insane. I just got a heat pump installed and it wasn’t required here. I have an existing smoke/CO detector that was right next to the old furnace and new blower. It’s also near the kitchen.
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I was once staying in a 14 or so story hotel, when there was a false fire alarm. And once we got the all clear to go back inside, one of the two elevators wasn’t working (I’m not sure if the disabled elevator was somehow related to the fire alarm, or if it was an unfortunate coincidence). The line for the elevator was so long I and a few other people decided to just take the stairs even though I was on something like the 10th floor.
This fire alarm went off around 10:00 pm. I was just getting ready for bed. I’m sure some people were already in bed. As I was leaving my room, a guy across the hall poked his head out from his room and asked me if I knew if it was a real emergency or not. Of course at that point I had no idea. But it seems like some guest were thinking “I can’t be bothered to evacuate unless I’m certain it’s a real emergency”. It seemed like some people did just stay in their rooms. That seems dangerous. Like that educational film I remember Troy McLure from said, “Phony fire drills reduce readiness.” Actually probably more of a “boy who cried wolf” scenario, where people experienced too many false alarms, so they just ignore all the alarms without knowing whether or not they’re real.
Oh yeah. I had an alarm go off in a hotel once when I was on a business trip. It was so loud that there was no way you could stay in your room. It was a false alarm for a major water leak or something and the fire department came. We were all in the parking lot for half an hour or so at like 3am. One guy went back in and grabbed a bunch of blankets and went to his car. They didn’t do any head counting but there may have been a room check
I always keep a pair of pants over a chair in my room and a decent shirt on top so I can take 20-30 seconds to dress in the event of a fire alarm.
About ten years ago, I was staying at a hotel near a college sports event. The “frat boys” up and down the hall were driving me nuts with their noise and commotion. Then the fire alarm went off. Turned out that one of the pull stations on that level was activated by an unknown party. I dressed quickly, pulled on my shoes and a heavy jacket, and exited the hotel . The parking lot was full of college-age guys in gym shorts and boxers, most of them with nothing but a t-shirt for a top. There was a lot of joking and frivolity on their part…for about 10 minutes. It was slightly above freezing and they got real quiet real fast. We were outside for about 40 minutes before we were allowed back into our rooms. For some reason, it was fairly quiet thereafter.
In high school, I was close friends with a very nice girl who was an exchange student from the nearby blind school. She’d been born blind.
Our class together was on the second floor. I took it upon myself to make sure I got her evacuated out successfully during the fire drill we had once.
I sleep in pajamas that are decent enough for a fire alarm. But I’d put on my shoes and grab my coat as i left unless I smelled smoke.
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