alt Hacker NewsPeople just panic and do ridiculous things like evacuating the apartment building at 2 am in their pajamas in the rain, blocking the road. Meanwhile 9 times out of 10 it's a false alarm. We should instead email the fire department while the residents keep sleeping. /s
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ssl-3 • today at 9:26 PM
Good. When they're outside in their PJs standing in the rain and blocking the road like complete dullards, then: They're not in the building, and they are neither on fire nor breathing chlorine gas.
You’re being sarcastic but that’s a weirdly popular view.
I called 911 once because of two CO monitors going off in my top floor apartment of a mid-rise. Half a dozen engines responded including hazmat, everyone’s standing around outside the building. FD had to break down the door of someone who wasn’t home because there was no response. Somehow it got around that I had been the one to call me in. Some guy came up to me saying something like “some of us have jobs in the morning. I hope you’re happy, moron.”
FD found a leak in the basement furnace. Without the alarms, everyone in the building would’ve been dead by morning.