Fire drills--Are they as pointless as I think they are?

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I hate fire-drills, they make me freeze-up/ have meltdowns. They are so unorganized in my school, just crowds of people moving.

They are very pointless when it comes to me, I have Snsory Intergration Dysfunction and when the fire alarm goes of I panic and freak out, so now when they are doing a drill they tell me before hand so I can leave the building and go to the firepoint before it goes off. Dumb or what.

I've always loved them because it meant taking a break from class but I hated it when I had to stand out in the cold or rain.

I didn't mind Fire drills so much. It was lockdowns I hated. we all had to crowd in the corner away from the door in the frount of the class. This was usually about 10 minutes until we where allowed to go back to our seats.(though sometimes the lockdown continued after that because they had drug-sniffing dogs in the hallway.)
At my elementary school the fire alarms SUCKED. they sounded like a freakin' Jackhammer!

Though Fire Drills do serve a purpose: If there actually WAS a fire, people might get hurt in a stampede of people to get out. If they think it's another fire drill, then they won't run like mad.

Fire drills are okay except one time I was in PE and it was snowing outside. Well I was in gym shorts and a tee shirt and everything was fine until the fire bell rang. It was a fire drill and I had to go outside in my gym in the freezing cold and snow. It's funny now but I was not so happy at the time.

We do fire drills because it's the law. When there is a real fire, people would know what to do. My work never does it so I guess work places don't have to do it.

I scream at the top of my lungs and it's not very loud because of the drill
the only time I get to do that

Yes. The noise never bothered me but lining up and the unepectedness of it did and they would make us line up in alphebital order by around 4th grade (would they do that in real fire?)

One time they took advantage of the fact we were outside and made us clean up the garbage. I just sat there and eventualy dropped a candy wrapper at the teacher's feet. They were smart not to push me.

But yes they are kinda stupid.

I don't mind fire drills. Although I think they should be more like "Get out of the building as fast as you can and meet up at X location!" rather then "calmly walk out of the building to X location"

At least I never had to see the absolute silliness of nuclear attack drills. Seriously if a nukes inbound, hiding under your desk doesn't increase your survival at all. Even if it somehow saves you from the shock wave you'll still get doused with many times the fatal does of radiation. Thus making you wish the shock wave killed you.

Back before I had my hyperacusis treated, fire drills were nothing short of torture.

The school I currently go to has fire drills not once but twice a month, in any weather but rain. I repeat, twice.

Why?, you may wonder.

Well, because our old school... kinda... burned down. Yeah. Dead serious.