Wake Up! It's 2am! Welcome to Res
This morning around 2am there was this horrible beeping noise that woke me up, I realized that it was the fire alarm and quickly got my jacket, locked my room and went outside. I figured that it was just a false alarm as these kinds of things tend to happen when you live in res.
As it turns out some idiots in the flat next to us on the third floor were smoking in their rooms (which is not allowed in buildings on the campus by the way) and set off the fire alarms and extinguishers. Meaning that everyone in the whole res block ended up standing outside for a good 30 - 45 mins in the middle of the night. There was even some girl who ended up having a hard time breathing because she inhaled some of the extinguisher stuff by accident in that flat.
One thing to note of difference here, the fire deptartment only sent over 1 truck with about 4 or 5 firefighters. I know that back home they usually send about 3 trucks for something like an apartment. Also the German guy living in my flat had no idea what the fire alarm was, and after explaining it he said the don't have them back home????
The idiots who set the alarm off will be fined $700 for the false alarm and I'm not exactly sure what the school does to them.
As it turns out some idiots in the flat next to us on the third floor were smoking in their rooms (which is not allowed in buildings on the campus by the way) and set off the fire alarms and extinguishers. Meaning that everyone in the whole res block ended up standing outside for a good 30 - 45 mins in the middle of the night. There was even some girl who ended up having a hard time breathing because she inhaled some of the extinguisher stuff by accident in that flat.
One thing to note of difference here, the fire deptartment only sent over 1 truck with about 4 or 5 firefighters. I know that back home they usually send about 3 trucks for something like an apartment. Also the German guy living in my flat had no idea what the fire alarm was, and after explaining it he said the don't have them back home????
The idiots who set the alarm off will be fined $700 for the false alarm and I'm not exactly sure what the school does to them.