Word: alarm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lowell residents have not only learned to sleep through alarms, they eat through them, too. When an alarm buzzed last week during lunch, most students just sat in their seats and continued eating...
...poor response to the alarm worries Bossert. "Nobody goes out anymore," he said. "We have a very unsafe system. If we were to have a serious fire people would be injured at Lowell House," Bossert added...
Harvard's false alarm problem is a recent development. In 1980, the Cambridge City Council adopted a state law requiring the installation of smoke detectors in students' rooms and in common areas, and the College entry into 'the Core Oreintation' adding that the coure's Core standing will allow her to make some improvements...
...false alrams sounded from the "systems smoke detectors" in stairwells and buildings. These detectors alert the Fire Department and ring the alarm throughout the building...
Park of the explanation is the oversemitivity of the new detection, officials explained. Dust, steam, insets, and "other things" one set off an alarm, Breen said...