It takes longer to make a cup of tea than to evacuate a fire

In order for a fire evacuation to be safe, everyone should ideally be out within 2 minutes of the alarm ringing or the fire starting. This short span of time is crucial – and can be all that stands between life and death. And yet, in fire drills up and down the country, businesses struggle to get their staff up and out.
To help workers understand just how little time there is to safely evacuate their building, we compared a safe fire evacuation time with the time it takes the average Brit