Word: bells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...participants will include psychologist Kenneth B. Clark; Martin L. Kilson, professor of Government; Derrick A. Bell Jr., professor of Law; and Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to the President...
Stephen S.J. Hall, vice president for administration, said yesterday that the signal came when the fire melted wires in the Lowell House fire bell system, causing a short circuit. Two minutes later a heat detector was triggered, Hall said, alerting police and fire departments to the blaze...
Because the bell system had already short circuited, however, the alarms failed to sound in Lowell House, Hall said...
...said it was the "strangest kind of even that could happen" for a fire to begin in a closet, disabling the bell system before triggering a heat detector...