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Please tell me what to read about #fire #FireSafety #FireAlarms
I have fire alarms wired into the ceiling and wired together. Great if there is ever a fire, but for nuisance alarms, the one malfunctioning alarm makes them all start sound, but they have to be silenced individually. That means hauling a ladder up multiple flights of stairs, while the alarms are shrieking.

How Regulation Came to Be: Our Lady of the Angels (24th in series)

Once upon a time, fires were the biggest danger in schools. The reaction to this tragic fire made a huge difference.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2009/11/29/809005/-How-Regulation-came-to-be-Our-Lady-of-the-Angels

#HowRegulationCameToBe #Regulation #History #Chicago #OurLadyOfTheAngels #FireAlarms #SchoolSafety #FireCodes

Why do #FireAlarms choose to tell you that the battery is running low in the middle of the night? I can’t recall one ever commence it’s beeping during the day.

Also why is this battery decline aligned with my first quiet weekend in ages disrupting a good night’s sleep and a lie in? Proof of practical joker deity?

Picture middle of the night bleary-eyed standing on a chair while my normally light-sleeping partner oblivious.

TIL: A KAC fire call point and Fulleon/Menvier are *not* the same (in spite of looking near identical and having a similar looking test key), even though they appear to share the 76 x 40mm glass.

Fulleon points don't have a resettable element option, leading to the glass accidentally being cracked during a bell test last week, it turns out there are 0 spares in the whole building (these and more test keys are now on order)

#FireAlarms #FireSafety