Fire Alarm Incident, January 23, 2016

Many thanks to the residents for your response to the fire alarm today. There was no fire; but, there was a failure detected within the sprinkler system causing the evacuation alarm. 

The incident today appears to be related to the problem that we had a year ago. A service contractor has been contacted to fix the system.

The fire detection system is operational. Pull boxes, Common area smoke detectors and strobe-sounders are all functioning properly. 

An hourly watch has been organized. Tours of all four floors will continue until tomorrow morning when we will re-evaluate our status. 

Please be vigilant. No matter how untimely, please respond to all alarms as the real thing.

Updates on the situation will be posted.

The strobe and sounder will indicate a general evacuation alarm. If this goes off, you will hear it. There is no way to silence it from your condo. The strobe will flash along with every other strobe in the building. Leave the building. This is the real thing. If you don't smell smoke, leave anyway. Modern fire systems rarely falsely alarm. The fire company is on its way, when this trips.

The Fire Alarm pull box will sound a general evacuation and call the Fire Department. If you know a fire has begun, don't wait for the sprinkler head to do its job. Get help. Pull the box. These are located next to the stairway exits. Unlike the old pull boxes, there is no glass to break. Look around the building. Do you know where the closest one is? Where are they in the garage?
Our local Authority is:

Cambridge, MD, FIRE & RESCUE COMPANY

Robert Phillips., Chief (410) 228-1670; fax: (410) 228-4554 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Building contact: George B, Unit 408

Sentry: Rod R, Todd W (410) 221-0398

Email:mc900@comcast.net