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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...
...issue you can't control is people," Reardon says. "You can have the best fire alarm and prevention system...[but] what no one can dictate is human nature...
Even before the Seton Hall tragedy, members of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) told The Crimson they were having trouble convincing students to evacuate at every fire alarm...