School Emergencies

[Shoyru_Lover]

My friend Bill cut off four of his fingertips, yowled, wrapped it up in paper towels, and kept on working on his ad campaign.

;;*blinks*

[Xaidread]

My friend Bill cut off four of his fingertips, yowled, wrapped it up in paper towels, and kept on working on his ad campaign.

Now, how pain resistant is that guy?!

[Siniri]

Let's see... my high school had several events while I was there. I think most of them were my senior year. First, my AP chem teacher had us make our own sparklers, and in order for us to have colored sparks, she added extra reagents -- without checking their reactivity with other reagents. Apparently, it started getting hot or something, so she told those students who had used the extra reagents to wipe their reaction off with paper towels and throw it in the trash can. Sure enough, during the next class, the trash can caught on fire. She carried it outside, where it proceeded to burn for over an hour, but there was no evacuation of the school. (She really was kind of an airhead.) My favorite chem teacher also left a beaker of sulfuric (?) acid on a hotplate overnight, so they had to have that cleaned up by professionals before the school could reopen (so one day off school). (He was more crazy than airheaded -- he had a demonstration called 'the Hindenburg' that always scorched ceiling tiles.)

During my French AP exam, there was a pepper spray bomb that went off in the ventilation system on the second floor. We were kept outside for about 2 hours, and then the classes in the nearby area met in the auditorium and student commons for the rest of the day. Fortunately, it didn't affect our AP results. Three people were treated at the hospital for allergic reactions to the bomb ingredients. (This was pre-Columbine, and it didn't even make it in the local paper.)

Another chem one -- my 1st semester organic professor's lab had an explosion in a fridge -- it blew the door across the room and caused $100,000 worth of damage (fortunately, no one was in the room at the time). No chem lab that day, yay. I worked in the chem stock room that semester and had to place a number of special orders for explosion-proof fridges after that.

Finally, while working in a lab at UNC, I had 2 incidents -- one was a radioactive spill (which just took hours of mopping up and swiping with a Geiger counter -- no emergency response), but the other one I really thought I was going to die for a split second. I opened the door to our tissue culture room and hit the light switch at the same moment I smelled the gas. It turned out my absentminded boss had left the gas on in the TC hood for about 30 hours! I reached in and turned it off, then called the fire department. By the time they got there, the gas had dissipated.

There was also the incident where some lunatic rented an SUV to mow people down on campus (fortunately, there were no serious injuries because he couldn't get enough speed around the buildings), but that was on the far side of campus from where I worked.

During the DC sniper incident, one of the attacks occurred at the Wal-mart directly across the street from the high school my sister taught at. Suffice it to say, they went on lock-down the rest of that day (and modified lock-down until the snipers were caught).

[Igg]

y'all went to crazy schools. Or I guess schools that aren't in the middle of nowhere with more than 500 students in them.

Occasionally someone would hurt themselves playing sports and the air ambulance would get called. I'm not entirely sure why- we have roads, and the hospital is a 20 minute drive away, and they have regular ambulances. The air ambulance made stuff look more dramatic. By 'hurt themselves' I mean either broken bones or injuries that could've been broken bones but turned out not to be.

Apart from that the post dramatic things were when the fire alarm went off and it wasn't a drill; either because someone thought it was hilarious to press the button, or because they burned something in the canteen.

HARDCORE YO.

[Pixa]

The most exciting thing I can recall is a light bulb exploding, and the fire brigade being called out. We sat outside for hours. I was in my PE kit, and rather cold. It was really dull.

One person died while I was at senior school, but that was an accident outside of school, so doesn't count, particularly.

I can't think of anything else, really. None of the institutes I've learnt at have been particularly small, either. My senior school had approximately 1200, and college has around 2400.

[Regan]

I can't think of anything else, really. None of the institutes I've learnt at have been particularly small, either. My senior school had approximately 1200, and college has around 2400.

In my experience, all the exciting things happen in large facilities. My high school had 2400 people at the time. My university has about 36,000 people.

Erm, I wasn't here for it, but there was a beg bug outbreak in one of the residences at my university. Gross.

[3lla]

One random guy walked through one of the glass doors in my current school about 5 years ago. The same guy managed to do it again about 3 years ago. I think he was epileptic.....

I've fainted in school once before, only for no one to notice and then receive a detention for apparent 'sleeping' in class.

Most school related emergencies in my current school are just sprained wrists and ankles or dehydration/asthma related.

My english teacher crashed his car outside his last school. Apparently he broke his wrist and a few fingers in his right hand so what does he do?
He drove himself to the hospital, in the same care he just crashed.
FYI He really is that awesome XD

[Katherine]

My vice principal's car blew up in the school parking lot twenty minutes before school. The school smelt of smoke and the fire men and ambulance drivers were in and out of the school all day. And my teacher saw it, so she told us all about it.

[Callie]

Well, in 9th grade I passed out at band practice and they had to go get the football coach to see if I was ok enough to not go to the hospital.

My science teacher one year cut a chunk out of his finger when a beaker cracked [I wasnt in that class, i just heard about it]

We've had a few people hauled away in ambulances [no lights or anything] for various unknown reasons.

Annd, once we had to sit outside all period due to a bomb threat.

That's about it. We're a smaller school in the middle of nowhere too.

[Mongrel]

Annd, once we had to sit outside all period due to a bomb threat.

Wow, I didn't even think of bomb threats as emergencies, we had so many.

[dragon]

Someone deciding it would be brilliant to set the fire alarm off, and then the teachers making us stand next to a metal fence in the middle of a huge thunderstorm for an hour.

Someone falling over and breaking there spine... Poor little kid is paralized for life.

[WIS]

Annd, once we had to sit outside all period due to a bomb threat.

Wow, I didn't even think of bomb threats as emergencies, we had so many.

Oh yes. We had one of those once.

Also, a girl was skipping rope in the gym and she accidentally breached the fire alarm with her skip rope.

I worked in the chem stock room that semester and had to place a number of special orders for explosion-proof fridges after that.

I lol'd.