So in the past three months alone, we have been evacuated from the building four times, the first three of these within the space of a fortnight. We will normally go months without having an evacuation. My office is on the sixth floor. Yeah...trying to hobble down stairs with runners knee is not fun .
The cause of the evacuations? Well...
#1 - one of the tenants who shares our building with us on-campus ended up tripping the smoke alarm due to burning some toast.
#2 - this was a planned fire drill and we did in fact have communication of this in advance. Didn't make it any less funny though since we'd already had a "practice" run from the last evacuation.
#3 - in a fit of delicious irony, one of the fire exit signs started smoking (basically, the maintenance guys had been in to look at said sign and screwed up somehow)
#4 - one of OUR students managed to trip the smoke alarm because they had misread the instructions on a packet of croissants and stuck one of them in the microwave for 4 minutes (they saw the word "oven" and thought it referred to "microwave oven") in the student breakroom. I have yet to determine which one of our students it is...
The cause of the evacuations? Well...
#1 - one of the tenants who shares our building with us on-campus ended up tripping the smoke alarm due to burning some toast.
#2 - this was a planned fire drill and we did in fact have communication of this in advance. Didn't make it any less funny though since we'd already had a "practice" run from the last evacuation.
#3 - in a fit of delicious irony, one of the fire exit signs started smoking (basically, the maintenance guys had been in to look at said sign and screwed up somehow)
#4 - one of OUR students managed to trip the smoke alarm because they had misread the instructions on a packet of croissants and stuck one of them in the microwave for 4 minutes (they saw the word "oven" and thought it referred to "microwave oven") in the student breakroom. I have yet to determine which one of our students it is...
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