Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN THE University's fire alarm bell system breaks down twice in a year, it's reasonable to feel generally alarmed. Stephen S.J. Hall, vice president for administration, explained that no alarm went off during last week's fire in Lowell House because the wires in the House's system had melted in the heat. This is not an especially reassuring explanation, since it would seem as though the heat ought to be precisely what sets offthe alarm. It's even less reassuring because the last time the system had a real-life test, in Moors Hall last February...
Meanwhile, Lowell residents protested earlier this week that no fire alarm sounded in the House and that York and other O-entry residents were lucky to escape alive...
Hall explained Sunday that the fire in the closet melted wires to York's fire bell, disabling the alarm system and preventing the alarm from sounding. Hall was out of town yesterday, but said earlier that his office would consider installing a back-up alarm system in the Houses...
Lowell House Master Zeph Stewart said yesterday that he has no authority in the matter and that he had received no communications regarding a new alarm system...
...Hall added that his office would consider attaching a backup alarm to the system at the Houses, to sound if the fire bells malfunction