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When a Leverett House fire alarm rang last Sunday afternoon, G-tower residents followed what has come to be a familiar routine: They filed out of the building, stood in the cold and expected to be let back inside once officials realized it was a false alarm...
Last Sunday, however, the alarm was real...
Among the improvements was the installation of fire alarms that flash a strobe light in addition to sounding an alarm when activated...
When a smoke detector goes off in a House room, a signal is transmitted to the control center but does not immediately set off fire alarms in the rest of the building. If the alarm does not reset in a short period of time, however, control center computers trigger alarms in the rest of the building and activate the University's fire response plan...
...according to Harvard Manager of Electrical Engineering and Utilities Daniel K. Wong, the alarm systems are only the "first line of defense...