Monday, 5 June 2006

How many fireman does it take to switch off a fire alarm?

My neigbour's fire alarm went off today yet again. I'm sure it was triggered off by smoke from cooking rather than a fire. It happened to us a couple of times but as ours is a rather simple fire alarm, we could enter a code and stop the alarm. However, the one that my neigbour has is a pretty complex one. There is no way he can stop it himself and he told me the fire engine had come a couple of times so far and it is embarassing.

The alarm went off at about 12 noon. The fire engine only came more than 1 hour later. If there's a real fire, the whole house would be gone by then and my house wouldn't be spared either. Perhaps they knew there was no fire and so took their time to come. They spent less than 5 minutes in the house, merely switching the alarm off. 6 firemen came just to switch the alarm off. What a waste of resources.

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