False Alarm
Feb. 13th, 2003 08:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tvordljThe fire bell started ringing 5 minutes ago. People groan but they don't move. Not supposed to. You wait until you hear an announcement or wait until the single beat (ding ding ding) becomes double time dingdingdingdingding then it's get out of Dodge time. Aside from pre-arranged evacuation drills, I think i've only ever seen us have to evacuate once and it wasnt' a fire in the end anyway. usually, as it was this time, a false alarm. Once i remember the rumour went that it was burnt toast in someone's lunch room that set off the alarm.
Can a fire be put out with sludge? Cause once when our office was being renovated, a sprinkler head was knocked off the ceiling and the alarms went and black sludgy very smelly 25 year old water came streaming out of it all over that end of the office. Someone had to call the building maintenance to tell them the alarm was false and to turn off the sprinkler water for our floor. They spent the rest of the day cleaning up and we had to stay at work. Between the smell permeating the air and the loud whine of the Shop Vac (a kind of vacuum cleaner for water spills) we all had massive headaches when we got home. The water in the sprinkler pipes is now 10 years older, i wonder if it would even get off it's collective arse to be bothered to get out of a sprinkler now.
Can a fire be put out with sludge? Cause once when our office was being renovated, a sprinkler head was knocked off the ceiling and the alarms went and black sludgy very smelly 25 year old water came streaming out of it all over that end of the office. Someone had to call the building maintenance to tell them the alarm was false and to turn off the sprinkler water for our floor. They spent the rest of the day cleaning up and we had to stay at work. Between the smell permeating the air and the loud whine of the Shop Vac (a kind of vacuum cleaner for water spills) we all had massive headaches when we got home. The water in the sprinkler pipes is now 10 years older, i wonder if it would even get off it's collective arse to be bothered to get out of a sprinkler now.
