Looking back at my elementary days, one of the things that I miss are those class-disrupting drills for fire emergencies.

I don’t know exactly why but there was a time during one of my classes when I just suddenly remembered our elementary fire drills. I can still vividly recall the adrenaline-pumping sirens that sound in the middle of the day and the excitement that we all felt as we hurriedly but properly went downstairs, and reassembled outside the supposedly-burning structures. Maybe it was because I was in the middle of conducting an experiment involving fire, that’s why it just suddenly popped up. I don’t know.

What I do know is that I miss them. And although disruptive as they are, I think we should continue having these fire safety training and these fire drills just to make sure that we are prepared for such emergencies. Even our buildings and other structures should be re-checked to make sure we are capable of handling fire accidents. It is our children’s safety that is at stake after all.