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Harvard officials also expressed concern that city firefighters are not responding as quickly to the alarms. "Word has reached me from several different sources that the Cambridge Fire Department appears to be showing up a little slower than they used to be." Breen said "Frankly, I'm inclined to believe...
...Breen's concern was supported by students contacted. "It takes them a long time; last time it took them 15 minutes," said Janice I. Roca '87, a Greenough Hall resident. Greenough has had at least seven alarms this year...
Last year, Harvard's first with the more than 1000 false alarms went off, Breen said...
Park of the explanation is the oversemitivity of the new detection, officials explained. Dust, steam, insets, and "other things" one set off an alarm, Breen said...
...College is caught "in a catch-22," Breen said, explaining that the decrease the sensitivity of the detectors would be illegal. Ongoing renovations only seem likely to increase the dust and other alarm-triggered particles, he said...