I had never heard a fire alarm ring until I got here. The first time I heard it was about three weeks into my first semester. I was in my room studying when I heard it go off. Never having heard a fire alarm before, I didn't recognize it. I actually thought it was one of my hall mates playing their music. After all, I had heard songs like "chicken noodle soup" and "peanut butter and jelly" and wouldn't have been surprised if this was a song. I ignored it until I heard people running around in the hall and went to find out what was going on. I was told that we had to evacuate the building. It turned out to be a hoax.
The alarm has gone off three times since then that I was around for and each time it was a hoax. I don't understand why they even put alarms in the building. It is a brick building and would not catch fire anyway. The best part though is that when someone actually lit a paper on fire in one of the halls this semester, the alarm didn't go off!
5 comments:
Dude,
There's a difference between fire alarms and smoke detectors... Some one has to break the glass for the alarm to go off... Duh!
Which plantet have you been hibernating on?
oops. now i get it. thank you. shows how much i still have to learn!
Or it might have been a fire drill, where the alarm is deliberately sent off to practice evacuation procedures.
They promised us it wasnt a fire drill the first time. Dont know about the others.
Fires can bring down brick buildings too!!! You may want to consider evacuating the next time you hear it.
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