coolgirlspyer90
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Hey all, sorry it's been awhile, i've been busy with my crazy schedule.
So, I don't know where to put this thread in.. but if one of the mods are going to view this thread i'm sure they'll put it in the correct spot :p
anyways, here I go..
On March 17th-18th I was in Bowling Green kentucky for a WGI (world guard international) drumline regional. And we were kicking some butt trying to get a really good performance out of us to get a good score. We placed 4th in prelims. So, around 9pm we headed back to our hotel. We went to the hampton Inn in kentucky.
Anyways, we went to bed around 11. and I was waken up at 5:30AM by a pit dad who was in the military, and i was super confused, i thought we were late for our drumline competition. I look over to the side of my room and my roomate was gone, her bed sheets were on the floor. I immediately started to pack my clothes and my dad came into my room with the other guy, and he grabbed my CIs, and my phone and my roomate's flip flops. I was wearing my pjs still. We ran down the emergency stairs exit and as we were going down i had no clue what was going on. As soon as we got outside i see all these fire trucks parked outside in front of the hotel, including police cars too. And we went around to the back of the hotel where the rest of the drumline was. I was still confused. My dad handed me my CIS and explained to me that there was a fire going on in the building.
My dad was so mad at the hotel. He started talking to one of the volunteers of our band about this situation with me. I look at the hotel and I notice that they only have one flashing fire alarm on the 2nd floor in the hotel none in the other hallways. I got scared and i broke down because i realized that if my dad and the pit dad didn't come and get me, i would've still be sleeping in that room not knowing that there was a fire. We had some people missing too because they said that their fire system didn't sound like a fire alarm at all, to them they said it sounded like a vacuum that needed to have a motor replaced. 2 of our band parents even slept through their fire system. But I was the last person to get out. Our bus driver made our charter bus available to us to sleep in due to the hotel still being examined. I couldn't sleep at all that day. Because i was so terrified of what had happened. By 7AM we were able to go back into the hotel, and I was completely upset, completely mad, because;
1) my roomate didn't stay long enough to wake me up. I understand that she had to leave the hotel, but she kept sayings she woke me up, but If she did i would've felt something, but i didn't.
2) when we got back into the hotel, i looked in all of the hallways including my room, They only had a smoke detector 3/4 hallways. the other 3 hallways had smoke detectors and only 1 had the flashing alarms.
So, on sunday my dad decided hes going to drive me home after the regional was done. We were both tired and my dad was still completely worried about me after what had happened. And he was planning on calling their office and go off on him about this situation.
On monday my dad called the hotel and told them what had happened. They said that we should have let them know that I was deaf and they would put me on the handicapped floor and that they have mobile flashing alarms that you can get over their office but it doesn't always work. And i hated how they view me as handicapped. I don't want to be on the handicapped floor, and the band parents/ directors wants to keep all of the band members who are still minors be close together in rooms in case something happened. And when my dad was trying to tell them about how their fire system sucked, they sounded like it was not their fault at all. And that they didn't care. My dad ended up calling my uncle who also works at a hotel to see what their emergency plan was, he said that all of their staff are trained to get their guests out of the hotel first, and then making sure that everybody is out and they have updated fire systems. So after that, my dad pretty much gave up. They weren't going down the path of how serious this was. And to this day, i'm scared of going into buildings that doesn't have the flashing alarms for me to know if theres a fire or not. I refuse to go into a hotel now where there is no flashing alarms. Because i won't feel safe if they don't have it or not.
So, I don't know where to put this thread in.. but if one of the mods are going to view this thread i'm sure they'll put it in the correct spot :p
anyways, here I go..
On March 17th-18th I was in Bowling Green kentucky for a WGI (world guard international) drumline regional. And we were kicking some butt trying to get a really good performance out of us to get a good score. We placed 4th in prelims. So, around 9pm we headed back to our hotel. We went to the hampton Inn in kentucky.
Anyways, we went to bed around 11. and I was waken up at 5:30AM by a pit dad who was in the military, and i was super confused, i thought we were late for our drumline competition. I look over to the side of my room and my roomate was gone, her bed sheets were on the floor. I immediately started to pack my clothes and my dad came into my room with the other guy, and he grabbed my CIs, and my phone and my roomate's flip flops. I was wearing my pjs still. We ran down the emergency stairs exit and as we were going down i had no clue what was going on. As soon as we got outside i see all these fire trucks parked outside in front of the hotel, including police cars too. And we went around to the back of the hotel where the rest of the drumline was. I was still confused. My dad handed me my CIS and explained to me that there was a fire going on in the building.
My dad was so mad at the hotel. He started talking to one of the volunteers of our band about this situation with me. I look at the hotel and I notice that they only have one flashing fire alarm on the 2nd floor in the hotel none in the other hallways. I got scared and i broke down because i realized that if my dad and the pit dad didn't come and get me, i would've still be sleeping in that room not knowing that there was a fire. We had some people missing too because they said that their fire system didn't sound like a fire alarm at all, to them they said it sounded like a vacuum that needed to have a motor replaced. 2 of our band parents even slept through their fire system. But I was the last person to get out. Our bus driver made our charter bus available to us to sleep in due to the hotel still being examined. I couldn't sleep at all that day. Because i was so terrified of what had happened. By 7AM we were able to go back into the hotel, and I was completely upset, completely mad, because;
1) my roomate didn't stay long enough to wake me up. I understand that she had to leave the hotel, but she kept sayings she woke me up, but If she did i would've felt something, but i didn't.
2) when we got back into the hotel, i looked in all of the hallways including my room, They only had a smoke detector 3/4 hallways. the other 3 hallways had smoke detectors and only 1 had the flashing alarms.
So, on sunday my dad decided hes going to drive me home after the regional was done. We were both tired and my dad was still completely worried about me after what had happened. And he was planning on calling their office and go off on him about this situation.
On monday my dad called the hotel and told them what had happened. They said that we should have let them know that I was deaf and they would put me on the handicapped floor and that they have mobile flashing alarms that you can get over their office but it doesn't always work. And i hated how they view me as handicapped. I don't want to be on the handicapped floor, and the band parents/ directors wants to keep all of the band members who are still minors be close together in rooms in case something happened. And when my dad was trying to tell them about how their fire system sucked, they sounded like it was not their fault at all. And that they didn't care. My dad ended up calling my uncle who also works at a hotel to see what their emergency plan was, he said that all of their staff are trained to get their guests out of the hotel first, and then making sure that everybody is out and they have updated fire systems. So after that, my dad pretty much gave up. They weren't going down the path of how serious this was. And to this day, i'm scared of going into buildings that doesn't have the flashing alarms for me to know if theres a fire or not. I refuse to go into a hotel now where there is no flashing alarms. Because i won't feel safe if they don't have it or not.