0 the set of actions that should be performed in order to safely leave a building, such as an office, factory, or school, when it is on fire, or an occasion when this is practised
1 an occasion when people practice what they must do to leave a burning building safely
2 a situation in which people practise what they must do in order to leave a building safely if there is a fire:
Inspectors found shortcomings in fire drills and the testing of alarms and extinguishers.
Every now and then a notice would be found posted up on the board to the effect that there would be fire drill during the dinner hour that day.
Fortunately the same efficient fire drill instituted by the forewoman on the floor where Ruth and Alice had been prevailed in other parts of the building, and not a life was lost, though there were many narrow escapes.
It was a matter for self-congratulation among them that Mr. Downing had never been able to induce the headmaster to allow the alarm bell to be sounded for fire drill at night.
Ship-abandon and fire drills were a daily feature of life aboard.
You children can pretend it is like the fire drill you have at school.
Basil later joins her after he gets a concussion during the fire drill.
Blakey stages a fire drill with the new equipment, but it goes spectacularly wrong when the foam machine goes out of control.
Hospital authorities are advised to hold practice fire drills at least twice a year and this advice will be repeated in a forthcoming memorandum on fire precautions in hospitals.
