I love the argument that he "shouldn't have used the siren because it would confuse people."
It was the middle of the night and a fire was approaching. Sending out mass texts is NOT a workable solution to wake people up. A giant fucking siren is.
Nobody is going to start running towards a big wall of flames and smoke because they hear the siren that tells them to run uphill. Waking everyone up was the number one priority.
I love the argument that he "shouldn't have used the siren because it would confuse people."
It was the middle of the night and a fire was approaching. Sending out mass texts is NOT a workable solution to wake people up. A giant fucking siren is.
Nobody is going to start running towards a big wall of flames and smoke because they hear the siren that tells them to run uphill. Waking everyone up was the number one priority.
Liberal eutopia, where death is preferred over confusion.
Yeah and put both of them together, sound the sirens to wake people up and send the mass text so they know what's going on.
Sometimes it takes fuckups like this to learn of system flaws. Hopefully now they'll add a generic "wake people up" alarm to the library.
I take the batteries out of my smoke alarm to ensure I never get woken up by someone as trivial as a fire.
Only reasonable thing to do once it starts chirpin
About half the residents don't have phones. The siren is often just that.
I guess, generously, they figured the giant wall of flame would wake people up. Perhaps it moved faster than expected.
Honestly, other than firefighters, I've scarcely heard of people having to run from fire.
Anyways, just honesty and speculation; don't get mad at me.