If you need urgent support, call 999 or go to your nearest A&E. To contact our Crisis Messenger (open 24/7) text THEMIX to 85258.
fire alarms
Former Member
Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
anyone had the fire alarms go off in their halls at an ungodly hour yet?
ours went off at 7am this morning. it was the beginning of year test though, so there were no fire drills. I'm really hoping that the fact I'm in 4th year/postgrad only halls this year will mean there are no more fire alarms for the rest of the year. my first year halls were really bad for it - about 3 a week at around 3am!
ours went off at 7am this morning. it was the beginning of year test though, so there were no fire drills. I'm really hoping that the fact I'm in 4th year/postgrad only halls this year will mean there are no more fire alarms for the rest of the year. my first year halls were really bad for it - about 3 a week at around 3am!
Post edited by JustV on
0
Comments
.:Crispy:.
Have heard plenty of smoke alarms, but everyone just ignores them. I swear they go off if you even look at them.
This was at 2:30am. Wasnt impressed!
Needless to say the alarms did go off, the whole building was evacuated and they got fined for putting a sock over the detector...
A sock.
Quite surprising really...
Our flat was on fire when I got back today. :eek:
No fire alarms or smoke alarms went off because there were no batteries in the smoke alarms and we didn't know to set the fire alarms off manually.
We were really lucky that noone was hurt. Only our cooker and cupboards are damaged, which it looks like we are going to have to pay for, even though there was no food in the oven when the fire started and it wasn't even switched on at the wall! We don't know how it started.
Just wanted to let people know. Lots of people in halls have said how they don't like having so many fire drills but I wish we'd had one, we all just milled around wondering what to do and why no alarms were going off.
My God. Dale Hall must be a boring place
We've now had 4, the latest one being because some ones radiator exploded and the steamy watery mess kept setting the alarms off. and that was the 3rd radiator this week to explode, and we have little heating or hot water. Joy.
And we had a departmental one on monday as well. That helped pass a bit of time during a 3 hour practical!
Nah, Dale has had a couple of alarms, but in the annexe we're good boys and girls
The only night I've stayed in another hall there's been an alarm, at 6.30am. I had to spend the time standing outside trying to explain why I was in this girls' bedroom to all her blockmates! (totally innocent!)
I have grown an immunity to fire alarms, I tend to just ignore them nowadays.
I know that Turtle in Nottingham keeps on having loads though - and his mate set one off and got fined. Ah well.
It was the Egyptians on the floor above smoking that set it off - they did it two or three times a term (set the alarm off) - and nothing got done about it.
Did get to see a girl I really fancied at the fire point though. She looked a bit rough after being got out of bed. Didn't fancy her so much after that....
To be fair, we *did* encourage him! (Well, told him that it'd be ok to spray deodorant into it.)
We get them about once or twice a week. I tend to take my time, finish whatever I'm doing then dawdle downstairs. I've got a fire escape right next to me, so I feel reasonably safe.