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enismirdalI think my head just narrowly avoided exploding.
Got back from the drinks party that followed on from "College Induction" at about 7:30pm. (Didn't expect that to contain anything useful; if it was important, they'd have told us a month ago when we started our courses, so presumably anything they planned to say was unhelpful. Instead I brought my laptop and spent the time producing a whole stack of code and part of a paper.)
I opened a package (my new laptop lock - thanks for all the suggestions!) and was chatting to flatmate about what to do for the next half hour before she goes out when the question was answered for us.
Another fire alarm.
Argh.
Well, the time wasn't too bad - evening is OK, at least we're awake, conscious.
We stand outside, as usual - chatting to people in other flats who we really only see when the fire alarm goes off. We wait for the stewards to come out and tell us which flat it is this time, and wait for the fire engines to arrive, firemen spilling out with resigned expressions to turn off someone's oven for them.
Nothing.
Eventually, one of our friends gets on the phone to security - it's been 15 minutes and nothing - to ask when they'll sort it.
It turns out that neither they nor the stewards had any idea at all that the alarm was going off. Normally, when an alarm goes off, it's meant to activate something on a switchboard in security on campus, and as soon as they see that they phone the fire brigade and get on to the steward. This time, however, nothing happened.
This may be linked into the fact that some of the undergraduate accommodation allegedly had a fire alarm going off continuously for 6 hours yesterday evening. And these fire alarms are not quiet. I'd guess around 90-100dB. So how the undergraduates managed to get any rest before they sorted it, I do not know.
In any case, a lot of the residents in our grad accommodation have now given up taking the alarms seriously. People were in the common rooms, warming up in the stairways... Even before reception gave us the go ahead to go back inside.
We were told to go and find out which flat had set off the alarm; this is displayed on the panel in the foyer. We checked, pinned it down to... someone running a bath and then opening the bathroom door, letting steam out. Argh.
After 30 minutes, we finally went back inside.
After just under 40 minutes, the alarm finally went off.
I really really hope they fix it soon. If not for our sake, for the sake of those poor souls at Pooley House who have to cope with 2 alarms a night sometimes.
Got back from the drinks party that followed on from "College Induction" at about 7:30pm. (Didn't expect that to contain anything useful; if it was important, they'd have told us a month ago when we started our courses, so presumably anything they planned to say was unhelpful. Instead I brought my laptop and spent the time producing a whole stack of code and part of a paper.)
I opened a package (my new laptop lock - thanks for all the suggestions!) and was chatting to flatmate about what to do for the next half hour before she goes out when the question was answered for us.
Another fire alarm.
Argh.
Well, the time wasn't too bad - evening is OK, at least we're awake, conscious.
We stand outside, as usual - chatting to people in other flats who we really only see when the fire alarm goes off. We wait for the stewards to come out and tell us which flat it is this time, and wait for the fire engines to arrive, firemen spilling out with resigned expressions to turn off someone's oven for them.
Nothing.
Eventually, one of our friends gets on the phone to security - it's been 15 minutes and nothing - to ask when they'll sort it.
It turns out that neither they nor the stewards had any idea at all that the alarm was going off. Normally, when an alarm goes off, it's meant to activate something on a switchboard in security on campus, and as soon as they see that they phone the fire brigade and get on to the steward. This time, however, nothing happened.
This may be linked into the fact that some of the undergraduate accommodation allegedly had a fire alarm going off continuously for 6 hours yesterday evening. And these fire alarms are not quiet. I'd guess around 90-100dB. So how the undergraduates managed to get any rest before they sorted it, I do not know.
In any case, a lot of the residents in our grad accommodation have now given up taking the alarms seriously. People were in the common rooms, warming up in the stairways... Even before reception gave us the go ahead to go back inside.
We were told to go and find out which flat had set off the alarm; this is displayed on the panel in the foyer. We checked, pinned it down to... someone running a bath and then opening the bathroom door, letting steam out. Argh.
After 30 minutes, we finally went back inside.
After just under 40 minutes, the alarm finally went off.
I really really hope they fix it soon. If not for our sake, for the sake of those poor souls at Pooley House who have to cope with 2 alarms a night sometimes.
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Date: 1 Nov 2006 21:36 (UTC)no subject
Date: 1 Nov 2006 22:33 (UTC)And I thought ours was bad because it starts screaming when Bobby makes barbecue chicken but steam?! Ai...let's hope it's fixed soon!
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Date: 2 Nov 2006 07:54 (UTC)I hope this gets fixed soon for you! This is most annoying! *hugs*
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Date: 2 Nov 2006 14:45 (UTC)It turned out to be nothing, and the reason for the alarm was never explained to us. Just a friendly, middle of the night wake up call to mess up our holiday!