Where there's smoke....
Mar. 17th, 2008 08:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
revchris... Sometimes there isn't anything.
I was working in one of the grad student offices this afternoon, and when I came back from going upstairs to get the shop vac, I smelled smoke. A very strong smell of wood/paper smoke. The grad students in the office agreed in both intensity and type of smoke (and that it was different from Friday's electrical/rubber smoke).
After looking in every room in the part of the building that I could smell smoke in, and not finding anything (i.e. - go up to door, feel for heat, open door slowly, look inside), I called UWPD to see what they recommended, as I wasn't sure it needed a building-wide fire alarm. Their dispatcher and I discussed it for a few minutes, and we decided that pulling an alarms was best, as that way, when MFD got there, if they found anything, everyone'd already be out of the building.
I've always wanted to be able to get away with pulling a fire alarm.
Eventually, a UWPD officer arrived, and we looked around, and by that time, the smell was dissipating. A few minutes later the fire trucks rolled in, and they all looked around, and we still didn't find anything.
Two smoke events in four days, and both strong enough to smell, but not strong enough to trip a smoke detector. This is beginning to be one of those "I wish something would burst into flame so we can find it and fix it" problems.
I was working in one of the grad student offices this afternoon, and when I came back from going upstairs to get the shop vac, I smelled smoke. A very strong smell of wood/paper smoke. The grad students in the office agreed in both intensity and type of smoke (and that it was different from Friday's electrical/rubber smoke).
After looking in every room in the part of the building that I could smell smoke in, and not finding anything (i.e. - go up to door, feel for heat, open door slowly, look inside), I called UWPD to see what they recommended, as I wasn't sure it needed a building-wide fire alarm. Their dispatcher and I discussed it for a few minutes, and we decided that pulling an alarms was best, as that way, when MFD got there, if they found anything, everyone'd already be out of the building.
I've always wanted to be able to get away with pulling a fire alarm.
Eventually, a UWPD officer arrived, and we looked around, and by that time, the smell was dissipating. A few minutes later the fire trucks rolled in, and they all looked around, and we still didn't find anything.
Two smoke events in four days, and both strong enough to smell, but not strong enough to trip a smoke detector. This is beginning to be one of those "I wish something would burst into flame so we can find it and fix it" problems.
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Date: 2008-03-18 04:08 am (UTC)Mind you, I'd rather *not* see you as a very large, unevenly done roast, either.