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Fire alarm abuse at Uni; beyond a joke.

Reply 20

Kittennffc

They come home from a night out, and scream, shout and sing incredibly loud at about 2am, which lasts for about 2hours. As we live in a terraced house the noise sounds like its in our house. They also play proper dance music until about 4am most nights. In the end me and my housemate went round and told them to turn it down to which they said "What? Down?" like, no, I can't quite hear it next door, turn it up! *****!

sounds terrible! hopefully our neighbours will be alrite next year! if anythin like that happens though id just ring the police (whether they'd turn up or not is another matter :rolleyes:

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im usually up till the early hours myself anyway, damned messed up sleeping pattern :sleep:

:goodnight

Reply 21

drawmeamonkey

1

jeff's_dead

And just to clarify - they were not planned drills. Each one was the result of someone smashing the glass on one of those button things.

Grrr grrr and thrice grrr :mad:

surely they should be threatening the people closest to the alarms with fines?! if they threatened to fine a whole corridor, people would soon reveal who was doing it :wink:

it is one of those things about living in halls though unfortunately.

shocking about the pregnant lady though, could have been really dangerous :eek:

Reply 22

santogold

15

I think there should be cameras close to all fire alarms and everywhere in halls, so that the people who set them off, can be kicked out asap. Not just out of the halls, but the uni as well.
It is unbelieveable that some people think it is a *fun* pasttime to get everyone out of bed and get the fire brigade over..... :motz:

Reply 23

iceman_jondoe

18

i remember someone set of the fire alarm in my maths GCSE.... it was so annoying.....but then again we got a few extra marks because of the disturbance so i wasnt too bothered :biggrin:

Reply 24

username30638

OP

13

yourjoyismylow

I think there should be cameras close to all fire alarms and everywhere in halls, so that the people who set them off, can be kicked out asap. Not just out of the halls, but the uni as well.
It is unbelieveable that some people think it is a *fun* pasttime to get everyone out of bed and get the fire brigade over..... :motz:

I had the same idea :smile:

But there are so many of the alarm points around the building that there would be cameras absolutely everywhere. It's the only solution I can think of though, because at the moment the people who set the alarms off know that they will probably get away with it.

I also agree that they should be kicked out of Uni. And actually, I've changed my mind about the hoaxes being an acceptable part of Uni life. There is absolutely no reason why it should be accepted. If you think about it, it's exactly the same as dialling 999 and pretending that there's a real emergency. It's completely out of order.

I remember on November the 5th (obviously the busiest night of the year for the fire service), the alarm was set off twice in the early hours. There were probably a million more important things that the fire crews could have been doing, but instead they were having to waste their time searching a 6 floor building, twice, just because some morons thought it would be funny. People who actually needed help could have died as a result, and anyone who thinks that this kind of thing is amusing needs to grow up and get a life.

Reply 25

kookabura

13

^^ Whilst I feel for the people who have to get out of bed and stand outside in the cold for ages whilst the halls are being checked, I went through it last year when I was in halls. Its the risks that are being taken that really wind me up. The fire crews get the call and go on blues and twos to the halls, this is risking both the crews and members of the public, however careful they are there is always the risk of accidents - this calculated risk is offset by the risks of a fire - if there is a fire. If its a hoax call though, or a false alarm there is no risk by a fire, but there is still the risk of accidents when the are travelling to the call. Also, as has already been said, while there are 2 pumps at the uni checking the halls are clear etc there could easily, and probably are other calls to genuine fires, which end up having to wait longer for a reponse because some idiot thought it was funny to set off a fire alarm.

There is also fault on the univeristies part as well, they should use heat sensor alarms rather than smoke alarms - esp near kitchens as these go off when they sense the heat of a fire, rather than just burning toast! These are perfectly good, and have the same 'success rate' as smoke alarms, but are more expensive! I don't know how other unis deal with it, but last year when I was in halls, if nobody owned up to the false alarms then the money the fire brigade charged was taken out of the deposits we had to pay at the beginning of the year. They didnt put any effort at all into finding the culprit, just penalised everybody. I was off ill for 4 months, but still had to pay towards all the false alarms when I was miles away!

Fire alarm abuse at Uni; beyond a joke.

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