Lana All Fired Up

Plot
Rita wakes Lana up in time for school. Lana finishes her breakfast quickly and wants to go immediately and gets word that there's plenty of time to wait. Lincoln tells the viewers that Lana loves school, from going down the slide to singing "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" to eating pumpkin muffins. He thinks that Lana finds it her favorite thing in the whole world. Lincoln also said that Lana thought that school wasn't as good as she expected. When Lana goes back home, she complains to herself about not wanting to go to school anymore.

Lana All Fired Up

Lana, Lola, the Fieldmans, and the rest of Lana's preschool class are playing with toys, messing about, etc. when a teacher pops in and talks to their teacher, Mrs. DiMartino, for a minute. After he leaves, she explains to her students that over the course of this week, they'll be learning about fire safety and at some point (she doesn't specify when) they'll have their very first fire drill.

Hearing this, Lana thinks that a fire drill is a device that resembles an electric drill but has a long jet of flame in lieu of the drill--picturing herself and her classmates with welder's hoods on and watching their teacher use the drill to make a rocking horse, Lana thinks that sounds really cool.

However, Lana almost immediately discovers that a fire drill isn't anything like what she thinks it is--her teacher explains that a fire drill is a special plan that they'll follow if there's a fire in the building. The preschool class practices lining up for the impending drill, goes out and practices "stopping, dropping, and rolling" (a technique that the Fieldman’s tell Lana that this is what she should do if her clothes caught fire). The Fieldman's, thinking real fire will actually be involved, relish the thought of having a fire drill with a great deal of sadistic glee... except Lana.

She doesn't want to be in the school if it's going to catch fire, and so Lana, who usually loves going to school, decides that she'll have no part of this.

That night, Lana wakes up, and looks up at the smoke detector in her room. She then tests it by poking it with a broom, so that it starts going off. Then she goes around the rest of the house, setting off the others. Mom and Dad rush downstairs, half asleep, (since it's the middle of the night) and tell Lana that smoke detectors aren't toys, and she shouldn't be messing with them unreasonably.

Back in bed, Lana continues to worry, and has a nightmare where she can't escape from her bedroom, since she's suddenly only very tiny. When she manages to get out of her room, she finds that it's not her regular hallway, it's the school hallway, catching on fire! The firefighters are the Fieldmans! They laugh, repeatedly shout "Fire Drill, Fire Drill" and run off into a big cloud of smoke.

Lana fakes feeling ill at breakfast the next day in an attempt to miss the fire drill. Lincoln is pretty sure that she's faking, and when Mom says that Lana can stay home for the day because she was up all night setting off every smoke detectors in the entire house, Lincoln asks if he can do the same because he was woken up by it too.. Mom knows that Lincoln’s got a math test today, so Lincoln has to go to school.

Lana spends the day at home with Adelaide (Lana is dressed in her t-shirt, as opposed to her normal outfit) and sees the Fieldmans walking home that afternoon. She asks if anything important happened today. The Fieldmans tell her they did some coloring and glued some sticks together. Also, Lana realizes that there wasn't a fire drill. Her subterfuge didn't work then... she'll have to face the fire drill eventually.

When Lana has to go to school, she's still a little concerned about the impending fire drill, and doesn't really want to leave the car when Mom drops her off. Mom asks if Lana will be OK at school, and Lana says yes. As Lana walks up to the school, Adelaide tells Lana that Mom would have come into school with her if she wanted, but Mom's too nice to have to suffer through the "crazy fire drill stuff."

In class, the teacher asks if anyone's seen Lana, since she hasn't come into class yet. The Fieldmans think that she's "probably playing hockey"... "playing hooky" corrects the teacher. Then they spot Lana hiding outside the classroom window. Lana says that she will not be part of the "insanity."

Back home that afternoon, Mom tells Dad the situation, and then to quell Lana’s fears, Dad has a surprise for her--a special firefighter's hat with Lana painted on it. Mom and Dad tell Lana that she's going to be the Loud family's fire warden.

Lana then tells Lincoln to go back to his cell! Not that kind of warden, they tell her. Lana is going to be responsible for ensuring everyone's fire safety.

Lana starts to patrol the house. They practice home fire drills, and test out a fire-escape ladder. Later, Lana notices what looks like smoke coming from the bathroom. She opens the door to find out it was just Lincoln steaming up the bathroom by having a shower. She tells him she wants his wet towel when he's done. Later, she sits watching TV with the wet towel, because a wet towel is a good thing to have in the case of a fire. Lincoln tries assuring his sister that it's not like they're going to set her school on fire for the fire drill and admits to her that he himself was kind of nervous when he had his first fire drill when he was in preschool, but explains that everything turned out just fine in the end.

The next day, on the way to school, Lana is a bit nervous, being sure the fire drill will be that day, though Mom reassures her, saying it'll be like the fire drills they did at home. Lana just answers with a "Yeah, I know."

All goes smoothly at the school, until they hear the fire alarm going off -- The Fire Drill!

Lana acts pretty calmly, probably due to all of her additional fire drill duties. She correctly tells Lola to not pick up a load of blocks, but to leave everything behind, as the class leaves the classroom under the guidance of the teacher. The Fieldmans overreact, acting as if there really is a fire, and some of the other kids are a bit concerned (Lola says that the crayons will melt. Rocky says that he has to go to the bathroom. Meli says that her shoelaces are undone.)

Adelaide and Lana walk through the front entrance of the school, and Lana is very pleased with herself as she exits. However, not everyone fared as well as Lana Mrs. DiMartino has to calm down Winston, who is hyperventilating. However, Lana is sort of disappointed, in that the fire drill wasn't such a big deal after all. In fact, she'd like to have more drills, such as a "volcano drill", "tidal wave drill" or a sudden loss of gravity drill"...

Major

 * Lana Loud
 * Lincoln Loud
 * Rita Loud
 * Lynn Loud
 * Lola

Minor

 * Mrs. DiMartino
 * Winston and Skippy Fieldman
 * Adelaide Benson
 * Rocky Wagner
 * Meli

Cameo

 * Lily Loud
 * Sophie
 * Frannie Sanford
 * Lisa
 * Conrad
 * Eli
 * Edward

Trivia

 * When the entire Loud family groans in unison after Lana states that they have to get their evacuation time down to 58 seconds, Lily is shown groaning as well.

Episode connections

 * In "Lana Blows the Whistle" also has Lana learning about fire safety, along with Lana blowing a whistle when she spots something unsafe.
 * Lana's alarm clock is heard beeping at the start of the episode, the same one as seen and heard in "Go to Your Room, Lana"
 * A smoke alarm in the Loud family's house goes off again in "Staycation", and it has the same sound like in this episode.

Errors

 * Lincoln spills lemonade on the ground, but when Rita tells him to be careful, the lemonade is gone.
 * When Skippy says, "There she is!" he and Winston have a lighter skin color than normal.
 * On one shot when Mrs DiMartino and the kids head to the door, the camera zooms in an opposite direction, making it look as if they are walking backwards.
 * When Mrs. DiMartino congratulates the kids after the fire drill, Lola is suddenly missing.
 * Adelaide continuously switches places in line during the fire drill.

Home video
DVD
 * Lincoln Loud: The Complete Series 4