Word: alarmers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Minutes pass before the alarm is raised. By then the floe has become an immense island ten miles long and five miles wide. Already more than 100 yds. of dark water separate it from Ohio. The ice fishermen know it may soon begin to break up. Some make for the shoreward side, in hopes that small boats manned by local fire brigade volunteers will find them. When rescue boats finally do crunch up to the ice and begin taking people aboard a captain has to explain, "We came to rescue you, not your stuff." As they are ferried to shore...
Spontaneous combustion of flammable materials stored in the shop sparked the blaze, R.C. Cully, Cambridge deputy fire chief, said yesterday. An asbestos door triggered by the fire alarm system closed, preventing the flames from spreading into the adjacent room where about 100 boats are stored, Carey B. Graves, women's crew coach, said yesterday...
There was no significant damage or injuries, and students were allowed to return to their rooms about 20 minutes after the alarm...
...false alarm was the first at the library in about a year, Osborn said, adding that alarms of this type are often set off by paint fumes...
...concerned, it was just a malfunction," Morrissey said, adding that the Harvard Fire Engineering Department will look into the cause of the alarm...