New Hall Burning to a cinder

[Guest]

New Hall had another fire alarm (only seems to happen when its pouring down!) except this time it wasn't a drill. someone tried to cook something (do they not realise that they are a student? cooking is a foreign concept to students!!!) Do other halls have fire drills often?

[TheGamesMaster]

From waht I recall each hall has one fire drill each semester. The other alarms (in new hall) are people leaving shower doors open, trying to cook or just being idiots (like seeing what happens if they try and brun the fire alarm, then wonder why it went off).

[Mr Comedy]

This 'one fire drill a semester' does not apply to Melville, which has one an hour.

[Lady_Xanax]

The fire alarm went off in our halls last week when someone burnt thier toast. It was at 8.30 in the morning but it was also the only day I don't have a 9 o'clock lecture so I was still in bed. I felt quite stupid standing outside in my pyjamas.



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[Zombie Sheep]

Think we had one in Chattan this year, but I managed to miss it.

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[Miz Manda]

There've been half a dozen or so in Uni Hall so far. Still not as bad as last year, I think it was 90 or so over the course of the year. Ah the joys of Wardlaw.


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[fainpathe]

[s]Miz Manda wrote on 23:07, 8th Nov 2004:[i]
There've been half a dozen or so in Uni Hall so far. Still not as bad as last year, I think it was 90 or so over the course of the year. Ah the joys of Wardlaw.

lol, ah, the memories....and the joys of living in a flat this year.... although i do miss Rozi's amusing rants at anyone stupid enough to leave straighteners on all night, or burn toast, or the petty sadists who planned the 4am drills....

[David]

just as i read this thread the fire alarm went off (im in new hall)


fortunately it was the tuesday test, which i'd forgotten about

[md25]

[s]Miz Manda wrote on 23:07, 8th Nov 2004:
There've been half a dozen or so in Uni Hall so far. Still not as bad as last year, I think it was 90 or so over the course of the year. Ah the joys of Wardlaw.

There was one at four in the morning a few days ago, which was unpleasant. I think we've only had about three so far this year, and there's no way we had as many as ninety drills last year.

[Miz Manda]

[s]md25 wrote on 11:57, 9th Nov 2004:

There was one at four in the morning a few days ago, which was unpleasant. I think we've only had about three so far this year, and there's no way we had as many as ninety drills last year.


My friend was given a sheet at the beginning of the year saying that there had been, not drills but people burning toast, spraying stuff, smoking etc.

Fainpathe- We do miss you and Rozi etc in halls especially since the newbies don't seem particularly inclined to let us live in their rooms eating Chinese, drinking wine and watching back to back JD films. Ah the good old days.

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[Scellanis]

You know people, there are only 2 fire drills a year unless you fail to get out in time and have to do it again. Fire drills are the ones the wardens organise and so the fire engines don't turn up.

If your fire alarm brings two fire engines and is at some random time instead of the drill time (which is between 6 and 7am on a weekday in McIntosh) then its a real alarm or a false alarm and you should crucify the drunk person who played with the toaster.

This year its been good in McIntosh...last year we had a faulty alarm and so many false alarms before they could do a drill that the drill was never done in the first semester. I mean, I think we even had more than 2 alarms in the same day that year.

This year we had a drill and I think 3 alarms that I've been present for (1 in the night, 1 at about 10:15am and 1 at about 8pm on Halloween)
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[md25]

[s]Miz Manda wrote on 12:17, 9th Nov 2004:
My friend was given a sheet at the beginning of the year saying that there had been, not drills but people burning toast, spraying stuff, smoking etc.

I don't doubt there were a lot of false alarms last year but ninety seems somewhat excessive. Who did she get this list from?

[Scellanis]

A leaflet was shoved under the doors in McIntosh with information on fire alarms...I happen to have shredded and doodled all over mine but at least I haven't eaten it yet...

Anyways Total activations for 2003-2004 were 94

22 Burnt food, 16 system faults (they were probably all ours), 15 steam/flood (we had a flood), 10 deodorant/aerosols, 10 faulty equipment, 7 malicious, 6 smoking/candles, 5 other/miscellaneous, 2 false alarms and 1 electrical.

there were 122 in 2002-2003

And considering the fire service charge them for these it must be expensive....

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[Miz Manda]

Is that across all the Halls of Residence? I was told it was just for Uni Hall. That would explain the number then.

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[Scellanis]

Yeah, I think it is for all residences cos there is nowhere on it that mentions a specific Hall of Residence....

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[Tweedle-Dum]

[s]Scellanis wrote on 13:28, 9th Nov 2004:
...you should crucify the drunk person who played with the toaster.


Get it right,

I was cooking pasta.

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[Scellanis]

[s]Tweedle-Dum wrote on 15:58, 9th Nov 2004:

Get it right,

I was cooking pasta.



lol, that'll be the problem then, next time put the pasta in a pan not the toaster....

sorry, no I wasn't meaning you when I said that....I was just meaning in general...

I can't help it, I've been doing maths all day...it makes me insane...I'll hide now.

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[LonelyPilgrim]

Yes, that most recent alarm in New Hall...

Afterwards they took the offending stove out of the kitchen and set it outside the main doors for a day before it was picked up and taken. It just sat there, smelling lightly of charcoal with it's plug cut off. Very sad, like some little kicked puppy of a stove... *snif*

[tinker]

What was super annoying was the Lindsay fire alarm in DRH a couple of weeks ago which was at 7.40am - it took 20 mins before any of the RAs or the fire engines even discovered we were there! Grrr, there could have been a real fire ... then what would have happened!?

[Miz Manda]

[s]tinker wrote on 19:30, 9th Nov 2004:
What was super annoying was the Lindsay fire alarm in DRH a couple of weeks ago which was at 7.40am - it took 20 mins before any of the RAs or the fire engines even discovered we were there! Grrr, there could have been a real fire ... then what would have happened!?


Hey don't complain you still managed to make it to our 9 o'clock before me.

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Any act of anti-social insanity is immediately sanctified by the magic word 'charity'. As someone once said, if Hitler had invaded Poland 'for Spina Bifida' then everyone would have just let him get on with it.