Hello to Musselburgh Grammar School where the School Report team were interrupted by three fire alarms.
We might ask about bike helmets, or swimming, or fire alarms in the house.
Its control technologies, like thermostats and fire alarms, are in commercial construction as well as residential and thus partly insulated from the housing downturn.
There were fire alarms and flashing lights on each floor, and a public address system instructed us to take the stairs, not the elevators.
There were fire alarms sounding, and the other buildings were swaying.
Worse, despite fire alarms going off all over the place, operators had shut down the reactor slowly by hand instead of hitting the panic-button to close the reactor immediately.
Even trickier is the problem of what goes on at the fire station between alarms.
Failings included the lack of an "L2" alarm system, which features loud fire and smoke alarms in every room.
False alarms to fire and rescue crews are "draining" resources and increasing the risk of danger during real emergencies, fire brigades say.
Fire officers said smoke alarms had helped alert the residents to the blaze which is believed to have started in a washing machine.
BBC: Gwynedd fire crews rescue seven from Barmouth flat fire
The problems range from obstructions at fire exits and problems with fire extinguishers to a lack of fire evacuation plans, alarms and emergency lights.
BBC: 'Unsafe' Brazil nightclubs closed after Santa Maria fire
Until then, they were fairly boring things, with most people understanding how they worked only because their neighborhood streetlights went on when they sensed darkness, smoke detectors sounded alarms and fire trucks beeped because motion sensors understood when they were backing up.
In those areas they will carry out home safety checks, advise people on fire safety and fit smoke alarms.
False alarms generated by automatic fire alarm and fire detection systems account for more than 40, 000 of call outs every year, making up a third of all incidents for fire crews in London.
BBC: London Fire Brigade may recoup ?1.3m from false alarm calls
Mr Sanders commended the government for the work it had done to increase awareness of fire safety, but said guidelines around smoke alarms in rented properties were "somewhat lacking".
These broke down to 924 fire incidents, 151 other events and 352 false alarms.
Meanwhile, North Wales Fire and Rescue Service has said there were no smoke alarms at the property.
Colin Baige, head of operational delivery at Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue, said very few calls triggered by automatic alarms tended to be fires.
The campaign will urge people to check electrical appliances and sockets at home, install and check smoke alarms, plan an escape route in the event of a fire and not attempt to tackle the fire.
She said there was no central fire alarm system in operation but some of the individual flats were fitted with alarms.
With the backing of the local political authorities, Mr McGuirk and his team resolved to evangelise, providing basic fire-safety advice, checking 350, 000 homes and fitting 700, 000 smoke alarms.
ECONOMIST: A Liverpool fireman demonstrates how it can be done
Fire drills can be costly, as teams are too small and spread across tasks to withstand too many alarms at once.
FORBES: Biotech Models: Virtual Reality vs Virtual Mythology
Lol Craven, from Cleveland Fire Brigade, said there was an increased risk of danger for staff at business premises that suffered regular false alarms.
The fire, which broke out at about 2:15 a.m. at the Main Building of the art institute on Willoughby Avenue, grew to four alarms and required nearly 170 firefighters to extinguish it more than two hours later, a spokesman for the fire department said.
应用推荐