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Fire drill

noun

An exercise intended to train people in duties and escape procedures to be followed in case of fire.

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"Fire drill" Quotes from Famous Books

... in a little army of children marching out in fire drill, or the same children marching in for their morning's Bible reading and singing? I find it difficult to say why. Perhaps it is consciousness of that law which has raised man from the brute, and which I see embodied when we take a thousand children and ...

— The Patient Observer - And His Friends • Simeon Strunsky

... too, we will just have time before turning in, to inspect my quarters," he continued. "Tomorrow I will introduce you to 'Specs' and Captain Lee, and you can go with them at eleven o'clock on their tour of official inspection. They will show you the fire drill, the life-balloon drill, the gun drill, the kitchen, and the cows. But now I want you to see a different side of the ship. We will look at my quarters, then at my guest rooms, and finally at my royal suite or state apartments as I ...

— L. P. M. - The End of the Great War • J. Stewart Barney

... was Kashyapa, who was Pururavas, but our lame master-smith, our iron-worker, carried by us in our drifts and re-named and worshipped by the south-dwellers and the east-dwellers, the Sons of the Pole and of the Fire Drill and ...

— The Jacket (The Star-Rover) • Jack London

... the first fire drill. Taking a stick like an arrow he twirled it in his hands, letting the lower end rest on a flat stick that lay on the ground. Soon smoke began to arise, and then fire came. The people gathered fuel ...

— Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest • Katharine Berry Judson