Ala. Code § 36-19-10
The Fire Marshal and his or her deputies and assistants shall require officials and teachers of public and private schools and educational institutions to have at least one emergency drill each month and to have all doors and exits at the schools and educational institutions open out and that all the doors and exits shall be unlocked during school hours and that the doors and exits of factories, asylums, hospitals, churches, halls, theatres, amphitheaters, and other places in which numbers of persons live, work, or congregate from time to time, for any purpose or purposes, shall open out. For the purposes of this section, an emergency drill shall include, but not be limited to, a fire drill, severe weather drill, or school lockdown drill as provided in Section 16-1-44.
Ala. Code § 36-19-10 (1975)