At 8:20 a.m. on September 29th, the fire bell rang suddenly at SHSID Pudong campus. The hallway was immediately permeated with thick fog and smoke. An unpleasant smell spread through the air. While having morning P&B class in their homerooms, the teachers and students from 1st grade to 5th grade didn’t know what happened, but still reacted without hesitation. Using their knowledge of fire prevention, the teachers led the students out of the classroom. They all covered their mouths and noses while leaving. With the help of escape directions, which are always taped on the doors, teachers and students got outside of the building successfully and assembled at the school gate. There was no real fire, only a fire drill without early warning. In this fire drill, the whole school took 2 minute 53 seconds to escape from the danger zone with nobody injured! We don’t expect a real fire to break out on campus, but the entire faculty at SHSID Pudong division will do their best to prevent it and be prepared for it.

(Written by Yuchen Xie & Yingying Pan & Haoruo Li & Yan Deng & Jingyang Gu Pictures by Yuchen Xie)