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CCFS Speaks Out About Reducing False Fire Alarms

[CCFS Administrator]  [January 15, 2010 11:14 am ]  [Views 324]

Jan/Feb 2010 ... 7 Steps to Reducing False Fire Alarms
Education, technology, regular maintenance and the appropriate discipline of pranksters are just some of the ways you can begin to address this problem.
- by Robin Hattersley Gray

The results of Campus Safety magazine's annual fire survey are in, and once again, false/nuisance alarms continue to be a thorn in the sides of university, school and hospital protection professionals. Nearly half (47 percent) of survey respondents indicated that false alarms are among their four biggest fire safety challenges.

Whether false/nuisance alarms are caused by burned popcorn, shower steam, lack of maintenance, poor system design, careless contractors or pranksters playing a practical joke, there is nothing amusing about them. Campuses that don't address this issue run the risk of wasting precious public safety resources each time an officer is dispatched to check on yet another red herring. Additionally, students, patients, faculty and staff stop taking fire alarms seriously when a fire alarm system regularly goes into alarm needlessly.

Here's how you can reduce the number of false and nuisance alarms on your campus.

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