Ikea during an emergency?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder what makes a person dig up a four-year-old thread just to post a lame, humorless response. I wonder what else they do for fun.

It's that time of year when people on DCUM start reminiscing about what were the best threads on DCUM in 2018. Which leads people to also reminisce about other, older threads that were amusing or memorable. Then the occasional old thread gets bumped.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In a fire, everyone would die, as they have lived, surrounded by cheap assembled flat-pack European-designed pine furniture.

There was such a fire in the UK, and I remember at the memorial service they read out the names of all those who died, interspersed with the names of the furniture lines that perished:

John
Malm
Bjorn
Trysill
Skogn
Peter

etc. Made it all the more poignant, somehow.

Hemnes was the first I thought of!

And your best bet is to run to and then along an outer wall and look for an emergency exit. It’s a huge square, so this would make more sense than backtracking through the maze.

Oh god. Any update on Hemnes? Please tell me Hemnes made it out?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In a fire, everyone would die, as they have lived, surrounded by cheap assembled flat-pack European-designed pine furniture.

There was such a fire in the UK, and I remember at the memorial service they read out the names of all those who died, interspersed with the names of the furniture lines that perished:

John
Malm
Bjorn
Trysill
Skogn
Peter

etc. Made it all the more poignant, somehow.

Oh god. Any update on Hemnes? Please tell me Hemnes made it out?

Hemnes was the first I thought of!

And your best bet is to run to and then along an outer wall and look for an emergency exit. It’s a huge square, so this would make more sense than backtracking through the maze.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hemnes is in Himmål now, with Jäsus.

LMAO

I was not on DCUM in 2013 so I didn't see this thread. Thank you to whoever bumped it.

[Anonymous]

I was in an Ikea during a fire alarm once. Staff all had an assigned emergency door they were to open and I was quite shocked to see how many exits there really were. You just don't notice them while shopping.

[Anonymous]

I was in the IKEA in College Park last year during a very windy day and the power went out. The emergency signs also went out and it was super dark inside. My kids were freaked out and still talk about it from time to time. No employees in sight, at least not where I was. Luckily we were already seated on a couch in one of the little fake living room set ups so we just stayed put til the power came back on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was in the IKEA in College Park last year during a very windy day and the power went out. The emergency signs also went out and it was super dark inside. My kids were freaked out and still talk about it from time to time. No employees in sight, at least not where I was. Luckily we were already seated on a couch in one of the little fake living room set ups so we just stayed put til the power came back on.

You're the second poster to say that emergency exit signs didn't work during a power outage inside an IKEA. Aren't exit signs, which are mandated by fire codes, supposed to stay illuminated (battery power) even when main power goes out? That's what we were told by a fire inspector at our church. I find it disturbing that two people have said IKEA seems to be either ignoring fire code or poorly maintaining its required exit signs. Nothing happened in the two cases mentioned here, but in a real emergency, a PP's suggestion simply to find and walk along a wall until you get to a door is...not going to work well if people are rushing and panicked and all trying that same idea. In the dark.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought this thread was going to suggest we take refugee there and I thought, "what a great idea". Oh well.

LOL, me too.

Same!! I was thinking ..food, furniture,beds, bathrooms, play area for kids...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In a fire, everyone would die, as they have lived, surrounded by cheap assembled flat-pack European-designed pine furniture.

There was such a fire in the UK, and I remember at the memorial service they read out the names of all those who died, interspersed with the names of the furniture lines that perished:

John
Malm
Bjorn
Trysill
Skogn
Peter

etc. Made it all the more poignant, somehow.

Jaysus H Christ-on-a-cracker, you are funny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was in the IKEA in College Park last year during a very windy day and the power went out. The emergency signs also went out and it was super dark inside. My kids were freaked out and still talk about it from time to time. No employees in sight, at least not where I was. Luckily we were already seated on a couch in one of the little fake living room set ups so we just stayed put til the power came back on.

You're the second poster to say that emergency exit signs didn't work during a power outage inside an IKEA. Aren't exit signs, which are mandated by fire codes, supposed to stay illuminated (battery power) even when main power goes out? That's what we were told by a fire inspector at our church. I find it disturbing that two people have said IKEA seems to be either ignoring fire code or poorly maintaining its required exit signs. Nothing happened in the two cases mentioned here, but in a real emergency, a PP's suggestion simply to find and walk along a wall until you get to a door is...not going to work well if people are rushing and panicked and all trying that same idea. In the dark.

Use the flashlight on your phone to guide you out and remember to put on your oxygen mask before you put on the kids’ masks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only place worse to get out of than IKEA is Michaels. I swear they pump oxygen into the air like the casinos.

Not true. That would cause more harm than good.

+1 The casinos just pump in the smells of new money...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hemnes is in Himmål now, with Jäsus.

I'm 6 yrs late to pointing out that I love you and what to be BFFs forever. A little too stalkerish for you? I"m sorry.

[Anonymous]

Can someone please explain who or what resurrects this thread once every 3 or 4 yrs???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please explain who or what resurrects this thread once every 3 or 4 yrs???

This one was resurrected by a recent topic: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/836700.page

In the new topic, someone raised a question about emergency exits and someone else linked to this thread. Several people went from the new thread to this old thread via the link and someone decided to respond.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hemnes is in Himmål now, with Jäsus.

Ok, we can shut down DCUM now. Because nothing will ever top this post.

So true!

Best post of all time.

How have I been on here for so long and this is the first time I've heard of this!?!?! Best thread EVER!