Firefighters respond to false fire alarm on campus
The alarm was a test and firefighters showed up to work with security
By CAROLINE BASSO and KORALEE NICKARZ
Early this morning, a fire alarm went off on campus and fightfighters were called, forcing students to leave their classrooms.
“We were called here for alarm bells and when we showed up … it turns out it was a work person [who] activated the system, doing a test,” Rob Chorney, a fire captain of squad 22, said.
Chorney said the fire department does over 80,000 calls a year throughout the city in which “20 per cent of that are alarm bells like this [one].”
“It was a test and there just was a lack of communication between security and engineering,” he said.
After students gathered mainly outside of A Building, the fighfighters walked between buildings to look for the alarm and they found out it was a drill.
Chorney said that once the situation was clear, they talked to the campus security and the miscommunication was resolved.
He said all the protocols were correctly followed by both security and students. “They got out and met in their right spaces where they had to meet up so I was very happy with the response,” he said.
