FIRE!! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!

[iviles]

Anyone else wonder why she had her kids with her in a bar? ...

i was wondering the same thing lol

[rerant]

Anyone else wonder why she had her kids with her in a bar? ...

There are a lot of places here that allow kids in before a certain time.
I'm also pretty sure CRML has mentioned the rule at his bar being the kids have to be gone by like 8:00pm and be eating a meal to be allowed in.

That and aren't most bars in the UK more of a bar/restaurant combo?

[customersruinmylife]

There are a lot of places here that allow kids in before a certain time.
I'm also pretty sure CRML has mentioned the rule at his bar being the kids have to be gone by like 8:00pm and be eating a meal to be allowed in.

That and aren't most bars in the UK more of a bar/restaurant combo?

Yeah they have to be gone by a certain time, usually 8pm, but sometimes a family manages to sneak its way in without the staff noticing.

A lot of places in the UK are bar/restaurant combos. I would say my bar is 80% bar, 20% restaurant. A lot of pubs in the UK allow children as well. I have no problem with kids being in the bar, as long as the parent realises they are responsible for them and are aware of what kind of environment they are bringing their children into.

I once had a customer complain at me on a Friday night because a large bacholorette party was making her family uncomfortable. Who in their right minds would bring their kids into a bar on a Friday night??

[MiloMorai]

Decent fire alarms can tell the diff between steam and smoke. Tell the hotel owner to fix it or you're going to charge for lost revenue for every false alarm.

[cinema guy]

I'd bet "hot water shower" and "finiky alarms that sense heat."

Yeah. I guess the shower would have to be very hot to set of a heat sensor. I'd think there's something a little off there.

As for meandering out of a building on fire, at my first theatre we were shown a fire safety video of a fire at an English Football match where a fire broke out in the stands, and the entire section was burned to the ground in less than 15 minutes, meaning getting out you had a lot less time. Personally, any building I'm in that has a fire alarm go off, I treat it as real unless warned ahead of time that it's a drill, and I try to be out of the building in 5 minutes or less.

Yes. I'm with you 100% on that. We had CCTV footage from a cinema that burned down after a cigarette was left to smoulder in a bin. The place was a raging inferno in less than 10 minutes.

Also we had a hotel fire in the UK last year in which people died. I would hope and expect that the hotel would be evacuated as well as CRML's bar and the fire brigade summoned automatically. Our cinema's fire alarm is connected directly to the fire brigade - I would hope the hotel's was too.

[Lioness Blackfire]

As much as the SC's panic-inducing reaction was inappropriate regardless of wether it was a real fire or not, to me the craziest thing about this story is that a shower could set off a fire alarm! I'd personally be wondering of the hotel's residents are setting the alarms off on purpose, or at the very least if the hotel needs to spring for some updated alarms.

[gunsage]

SC: Quickly children! It's not safe here! We have to leave!

Me: *gets on the PA* "Ahem...attention, ladies and gentlemen, the roof is on fire."

Suddenly, Nelly comes out of nowhere...

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Me: *gets on the PA* "Ahem...attention, ladies and gentlemen, the roof is on fire."

Suddenly, Nelly comes out of nowhere...

I was thinking more along the lines of "The roof, the roof, the roof is one fire. But we don't need no water, let the mother-f burn"

[gunsage]

Actually, that's referenced in the video of "It's Getting Hot in Here" by Nelly.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Actually, that's referenced in the video of "It's Getting Hot in Here" by Nelly.

And that version I am not familiar with, because I am not a fan of (c)rap.

The two versions I'm familiar with are the ones by Coal Chamber and The Bloodhound Gang (at least that's who I think they are)

[daleduke17]

Fire alarms, what fun.

Just some trivia for you all: a fire doubles in size something around every 30 seconds. Less if there is accelerant (gasoline, etc) or high winds. More if there is some sort of obstruction.

[Primer]

Fire alarms, what fun.

Just some trivia for you all: a fire doubles in size something around every 30 seconds. Less if there is accelerant (gasoline, etc) or high winds. More if there is some sort of obstruction.

We came way too close to witnessing this yesterday (Sunday). We live out in the booniesI think it was Rahotma that described the way our land is laid out as a "spaghetti farm," but the majority of the land is woods and scrub.We have a pit, about 10'x15'x7' deep that we burn scrap wood, dead branches, etc. in. We've been under a burn ban and/or had high winds and/or had too much rain for quite some time now.

Yesterday broke clear and calm, with no bans in place. Since we were going to be doing other work outside, we decided to burn the pit. Wouldn't you know, once we got it lit, the winds kicked up. The flames were shooting over 20' above ground level. There are 2 cedar trees about 8' from the edge of the pit, that at the first chance, we are taking down! We were damned lucky that the heat of the fire did not set them, and the rest of the woods, off too! Yes, we had the hose out, and were keeping everything as wet as possible. I have a mild "sunburn" today from being so close to the fire for so long wielding the hose. I'm just glad we mowed the area first!

I've never been that close to a fire that big before, and I hope I never will be again. If I hear a fire alarm, you better believe I'm evacuating!

[Andara Bledin]

I used to live in a mobile home. One fun fact I learned during that time is that a mobile home can burn to the ground in about 8 minutes (!) and since there's so much synthetics in the construction, it's pretty toxic, too.

^-.-^

[queenbb]

i was in a fire drill (i hope) in vegas at the rio

it was one of the most disturbing things i have ever seen

no one left, no one left the machines, there was a ceiling show going on and those poor people had no way down from their mock floats, the thing they were on just stopped and they had to sit there,

i looked at my friend i was with and said well i guess if this was really a fire we would all die. i feel bad for those people in the ceiling show.

did i leave, no, it was too interesting to watch to not leave. no one even payed attention to the evacuation notice. if it was a drill it was a complete failure.

i think vegas needs to rethink their evacuation of casinos.

maybe have people dressed up in fire costumes, running around saying if i were a real fire you would probably be dead now, from smoke inhalation, or actually burned,

i can see it now,

weewaaa weewaa weewaa

old fart at a hot machine, thinks, well if im gonna die i might as well die with the jackpot in my hand.

guy in fire suit, hey dude you need to leave now or your gonna die,

old fart, well if i die i will die rich this machine is hot

guy in fire suit, well that wont matter much since if you were to hit that jack pot no one would know and some one else would claim it so your family wont even get to have any of it, and more so it would actually BURN in my scary flames

old fart, eh, i just want to win who cares who gets the money. go a way flame guy you are bothering me.

guy in flame suit walks away dejected and tries to pry the next person off of the one armed bandit.

[crazylegs]

i think vegas needs to rethink their evacuation of casinos.

Easy, cut off the power to the machines when the Fire alarm goes off, if you can link in a Music sytem to a fire alarm I'm pretty sure you can link in certain electric sockets, hell an automated RCD would do the trick nice and easy!