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- From: Warren.Chou@f15.n229.z1.fidonet.org (Warren Chou)
- Newsgroups: misc.emerg-services
- Subject: Arson fire
- Message-ID: <725627564.AA28222@remote.halcyon.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 03:21:11 -0800
- Sender: UUCP@remote.halcyon.com
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- -> Here at the University of North Texas (in the City/State, actually),
- -> is illegal to pull a fire alarm unless an emergency exists.
- -> Also, when I was at school in Auburn University, Alabama, when they
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- -> fire drills, you HAD to be outside. The FD and PD check all of the
- r
- -> and bathrooms in a sweep (all floors at once from one ent to the
- othe
- -> with hall monitors). If they find someone in the building during a
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- -> alarm, they get handcuffed, and taken down town. I think at UNT,
- you
- -> suspended or something... makes people get into the habit of
- evacuat
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- I think that it is a general prank at a college campus to pull the fire
- alarm every once in a while. I mean, it is so easy to just pull the
- alarm and then run into your room and no one would know the wiser.
- Most people have the "It can't happen to me" attitude so they are
- usually slow to exit their rooms. In this case, however, is someone
- ran through the halls and stairwells and doused them with gasoline, I
- doubt that the fire alarms would have done any good.
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