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Gord's Exchange to the University of Calgary
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Fire Alarm
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The fire alarms here (and I think in most homes) are very sensitive. Recently had a fire drill, where we were woken up at 6am and had to evacuate in the freezing cold. An hour ago, I was woken up by the fire alarm, again! Thats around 3 plus pm. Turns out someone's cooking created too much smoke, triggering the fire alarm in the corridor. Now, the system is that the fire alarm in the room will sound first when theres a fire. And the fire detector is extremely sensitive, it sounds even when I am boiling water. However, that detector does not trigger the building fire alarm, which is in the corridors. Therefore, when cooking, the door cannot be opened, in case the smoke gets out into the corridors and triggers those detectors. When triggered, the building fire alarm will activate the fire brigade automatically. When most residents cook, they will turn off the power for the room fire alarm, since its too sensitive and irritating. This kinds of defeats the purpose of having an internal fire alarm. Anyway, my guess is that this resident decided to cook and switched off his fire alarm. However, probably so much smoke was created that even the corridor alarms are set off, waking me up from my beauty sleep. And he stays a few rooms away from me only. Don't know what will happen to him, most likely will be fined $500 for negligence. Not sure though. Half an hour's time I will be having a quiz.. Sigh.. |
posted by Gordee @ 4:10 PM
