Although there were 114 incidents of fire alarm activated in residences on campus from March 2010 to February 2011, only two were caused by actual fire.Burnt food was responsible for a majority of 114 raised last year, a fire alarm, constituting 57% of the calls, according to statistics, out of Cornell, environment, health and Safety Department.
Ithaca fire Deputy Fire Chief Tom Parsons ' 82 said fire alarms can be activated by a variety of things unrelated to the fires, including technical failures and the dust of maintenance work. According to the report of maintenance caused 13 false alarms and four caused dust."[A fire alarm] does not know the difference between someone heat a pan for baking and generate lots of smoke oil against a real fire on the stove," Parsons said.
EHS statistics list another cause of false alarms as individuals with the intention of "malicious", referring to abuse deliberate fire in the absence of a fire alarm systems. Two alarm leave during the 12 months were classified as "malicious", according to the report.Judicial administrator Mary Beth Grant right ' 88 deals with the legal consequences for the individuals that maliciously alarm fire, fail to cancel a building during an alarm and tamper with fire equipment. Fire safety equipment was often abused by students while committing jokes, she said.
"We had a number of cases where people either pull an alarm of fire when there was no fire, fire use safety equipment when there is no place to use or not out after a fire alarm rang.""," said Grant.Grant feared that false alarms could potentially distract firefighters with respondents, actual emergency police officers and EMS workers.
The high rate of false alarms in homes can lead students to expect that any alarm fire is a false alarm or a drill, Parsons, said."If the building had an alarm there more than once in the same 24 hour period, done you thinking, Oh,"it is another alarm "," said Parsons."." If people then not cancel in a real emergency, "firefighters to assist individuals from building instead of attending to the fire," he said.
In addition, fire services must respond to all serious fire emergency alarms and false alarms are the additional danger of fire possible traffic accidents at the wheel of the scene, Parsons, said.Students who are caught intentionally false alarms causing can be arrested on criminal charges or referred to the judicial administrator, Cornell University Police Department Deputy Chief David Honan, said in an e-mail statement. In the latter case, students could receive disciplinary probation or suspension, Grant said."There are many things that people do like jokes are stupid and harmless," Grant said in reference to false alarms. "This is not a silly, harmless joke."
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