Fire drills feel silly because they’re boring. Boring is the point. Panic can’t improvise.

Practice exists so that nobody has to think during the part where thinking stops working well. A real emergency takes away most of your ability to plan, and what remains is whatever got rehearsed until it needed no decisions. The tedium is not a flaw in the drill, it is the mechanism.

Treat the dull repeated thing as the actual preparation rather than a formality to sit through. Know your exit, your route, the one number you would call. Then let it be boring, which means it is doing its job.