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Re:Miami Herald Report on the Surfside Condo Collapse: House... by JoeyBananas on Saturday January 01, 2022 @02:21PM (#29761695)
Every commerical building I've ever seen has fire alarm levers on the walls. Somebody could have triggered the alarm manually.

These fire alarm levers are everywhere, but they rarely ever get used in an emergency. If what happened is someone pulled the lever and the system logged it but the alarm didn't go off, that's a huge problem.

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Re:Miami Herald Report on the Surfside Condo Collapse: House... by bsder on Saturday January 01, 2022 @06:28PM (#29763983)
> Every commerical building I've ever seen has fire alarm levers on the walls.

I see these very rarely nowadays.

Apparently they get triggered too often as pranks, and it trains people to ignore the alarms. So, they don't put them in new construction.

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