Originally Posted By: JeffMc
Personally, I wouldn't rely on some random worker announcing that a fire alarm was false. This has happened, and has cost lives, in several major structure fires. Unless the announcement comes from responding firefighters, I'd rather at least check things out for myself than not evacuate promptly, and the higher the floor I'm on or the bigger the building I'm in, the more seriously I take fire alarms.

If I were waiting for a responding firefighter, I would still be outside waiting.

The cafeteria is on the first floor and there is a set of doors directly to the outside. If we have seen or smelled smoke nonetheless, we would have made our way out those doors.

Jeanette Isabelle
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