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FIRE!

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We remove old plastic consumer units and replace them with metal encased types, but still allow buildings to be clad in combustible materials. Bonkers.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7691433/Hundreds-residents-evacuated-Bolton-University-student-halls-flames.html


Z.
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    Hi Zoom, yes I just read that on the BBC website.

    One part of a statement reminded me of our recent interlinked detector thread and comments about students (and others) ignoring alarms - "I heard the fire alarm going off but it kept on going off so I just thought it was a drill at first until one of my flatmates shouted down the corridor that it was a real fire,"

    Sobering statement about the reality of that opinion methinks!
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    ebee:

    Hi Zoom, yes I just read that on the BBC website.

    One part of a statement reminded me of our recent interlinked detector thread and comments about students (and others) ignoring alarms - "I heard the fire alarm going off but it kept on going off so I just thought it was a drill at first until one of my flatmates shouted down the corridor that it was a real fire,"

    Sobering statement about the reality of that opinion methinks!




    Yes ebee, it is good that the fire alarm worked, I expect that it set off automatically. Also it is good that people were alerted by verbal warnings. It is good that exit routes could be used unimpeded and that nobody was hurt. But students may have had a little drink or two, or may have been sleepy at that time of day and their responses may have been slower, so everything needs to be clear and unmistakable when alarms sound. Also fire drills should be taken seriously so that occupants know what to do and how to escape the building. Occupants should be advise to leave immediately and NOT to delay leaving to collect personal possessions etc.


    Z.

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    True that you should leave the building as quickly as possible, leaving things behind, but in the days before cloud backups, would you want to leave the original of this behind?
    file:///D:/Downloads/PR-PHD-05437_CUDL2017-reduced%20(1).pdf


    Clive
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    Looking online it appears that the building may only be four years old having been built in 2015.


    Andy B.
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    It appears that the students were confused when the fire alarm sounded as it often cries wolf, one student said that it sounded on nearly a daily basis.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-50445311



    Z.
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    AncientMariner:

    True that you should leave the building as quickly as possible, leaving things behind, but in the days before cloud backups, would you want to leave the original of this behind?
    file:///D:/Downloads/PR-PHD-05437_CUDL2017-reduced%20(1).pdf



    Link to Stephen Hawking's PhD thesis


    No cladding in those days! (Save for ivy or wisteria.)


    When I was in transit accommodation in Aldershot during my resettlement training, a false fire alarm sounded. It made the building uninhabitable, so I went out for dinner. The Army officers delved in their rucksacks and put on their ear defenders until a contractor turned up and reset it.
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    If statements about numerous false activations are true then the management/university need to address this as a priority with serious punitive measures if culprits are found.

    If the statements actually refer to weekly testing of the system in line with regulations, this needs to be communicated more clearly to the occupants.


    Back in my day, the halls of residence I was in had a spate of malicious alarm activations at least once a week if not twice....usually on the same night as the local pubs had their 'student nights' - correlation or causation I wonder?

    The fire service always attended to their credit, but very quickly got rather p**sed off and soon the boys in blue accompanied them. Before long the university was slapped with an ASBO. Safe to say the culprits didn't get to finish their studies once the university identified them.
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    If anyone has access to a copy of The Financial Times from Friday (22 November 2019) there is apparently an article in it about the fire behaviour of type of cladding used on the Bolton student accomodation.






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