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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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. [/quote]

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. 
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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. [/quote]

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