Fire Alarm Evacuates WHDH During 4 PM News

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Breaking Right Now...

 

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OK, they're back now after a 7 minute commercial break. No acknowledgment of the alarm.

 

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They just mentioned it, apparently someone was making popcorn "up in the traffic dept."

 

[MarcB]

That's why a lot of places have banned microwave popcorn.

 

[qunewsguy]

That's why a lot of places have banned microwave popcorn.

If you say so... :

 

[necrat123]

Actually he's right on that. There are some places that do not allow microwave pop corn in their break rooms due to the issues associated with it (false alarms, that awful smell that lasts for days, etc). I've seen a few places with the signs that say it.

--Mike

 

[bub]

That's why a lot of places have banned microwave popcorn.

Actually he's right on that. There are some places that do not allow microwave pop corn in their break rooms due to the issues associated with it (false alarms, that awful smell that lasts for days, etc). I've seen a few places with the signs that say it.

--Mike

I worked at a place where the fire alarm was set off after a custodial staffer dropped an aerosol can after prying off the top. Whatever was in the can, the detector got a whiff and set off the alarm. Because it was an old system, the fire department had to come in on the pumper to manually shut it off because only they knew how to do it.

 

[Bill-in-CT]

I've witnessed a fire alarm being set off by someone doing wall sandpapering. The fire department had to reset the alarm system.

I once worked with someone who used to burn popcorn every afternoon. But the worst incident was someone microwaving fish at lunchtime.

 

[qunewsguy]

I once worked with someone who used to burn popcorn every afternoon. But the worst incident was someone microwaving fish at lunchtime.

Do you work at my station? Both happen all the time at mine. :-\

 

[Tom Wells]

About 1985 I was instructed to vacuum the computer room. It was one of the old-style computer rooms with an elevated floor
the cabling was run under, and positive pressure airflow that blew upward through the machines.

The 16' x 16' office was adjacent to, and had windows between the two rooms.

Both rooms were protected by a LARGE Halon gas system. About 10 minutes into the vacuuming, the sensors mistook the dust
that made it through the vacuum for smoke. WHOOOOOSH! : Did I do that?

I looked through the window into the office.. Every piece of paper, whether on a desk, pinned to a bulletin board, or taped to
the wall, was swirling around in a cyclone. It kicked up a LOT of dust.

While helium gas causes your voice pitch to go way up, this halon gas did the opposite.
It turned everyone's voice down an octave or so.

I think they decided to damp mop from that time on...

 

[DToTheJ]

I once worked with someone who used to burn popcorn every afternoon. But the worst incident was someone microwaving fish at lunchtime.

Let me guess... Cod?

 

[necrat123]

About six months ago we had a dusty detector set off the fire alarm, right in the middle of the 10pm newscast. It had "pre-alarmed" all evening and when the alarm contractor finally arrived to clean it, just as he was walking out the door, it tripped the alarm. The FD still sent a truck here.

 

[kms575]

Are we sure Conan O'Brien didn't pull the alarm? ;D