No, they're more annoying than anything. I am scared of fire though since the giant Valley Fire we had here, horrible anxiety. Every time I see the local page post about some tiny wildfire I go into panic mode, even if it's towns over. :/
I mean, they are scary to hear especially when it's not a drill. I immediately think where is the fire located, is it big, will I make it out, all those kind of questions rush through my head.
I don't have a big meltdown or anything. Just more worried since I don't know the situation.
i used to be so scared of them, i still hate them but i'm not as scared. i hate the loud noise but i'm better at dealing with it now and i'm way more chill about evacuating now too so yay. that being said i still get really anxious and shaky when fire alarms go off but that's because it is so loud lol
i've been to a lot of public places where the fire alarm went off and that wasn't very fun. when i was like 8 my sister, mom and i went to the public swimming pool in january. the fire alarm went off and i had a breakdown because of how stressfull, scary and loud the situation was. we had to stand outside lol (for like 5 minutes but it's still really not that Nice to be outside in wet swimsuits in under 0 degrees celsius weather and snow)
ive also been to shopping malls like 3 times when the fire alarm has gone off ):
I think I was desensitized to them in Middle School when almost every week a teacher would burn something in the oven of the teacher's lounge and we'd have to evacuate cause the alarm was set off.
When i was an elementary school a 4 year old boy pulled the alarm. I was in the cafeteria at the time. And it went off. I was so traumatized that i actually threw up.
one time the smoke detector went off in the middle of the night, waking from me up, I didn't even get out of bed and tried to go back to sleep instead, I was so tired that my body didn't even register it as a danger noise, it was just annoying as hell
Yes. For me it's so triggering for reasons I cannot say, but lets just say there was a series of unfortunate events that occurred in my hometown that lead to me not liking alarms of all sorts. I used to be really bad a few years ago,
like we'd have a drill and go congregate outside and I would be able to feel myself shaking because of the feeling that something bad had happened even though it's just a drill. It doesn't bother me as much now, but I still don't like them at all.
We have monthly fire drills where I go to school, and it's almost always unexpected, so every time the fire alarm goes off, people go crazy while I quietly stand up and walk calmly outside. So, no. Fire alarms don't scare me, but the people that do get scared of them bug me.