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> People trust smoke alarms. When a smoke alarm goes off in a school or an office building, everybody stops what they’re doing and walks outside in an orderly f
by nitwit005 8y ago
> People trust smoke alarms. When a smoke alarm goes off in a school or an office building, everybody stops what they’re doing and walks outside in an orderly fashion.
No, it means someone was making popcorn. The reason we leave is because they set the volume to a level that it causes people to feel pain, presumably to force us to leave.
The fire alarm at my apartment is effectively a bacon detector. Multiple residents have covered theirs because of how sensitive they are. Normal cooking will set them off. I'm suspicious they may actually up the risk of a fire, as someone may abandon their cooking to avoid the noise.
- pixl97 8y ago>he fire alarm at my apartment is effectively a bacon detector. I cook bacon in the oven on racks, it is smokeless. The damn alarms still sing the song of their people every time.
- aaronmdjones 8y agoIf you have a smoke alarm installed in your kitchen (or wash room if that's separate) that is a problem. Kitchens need heat alarms instead for this exact reason; smoke alarms are too sensitive and are likely to be set off by other things (dust from linen, steam from a kettle, toaster, tumble-dryer, etc). In the UK, new residential construction puts heat alarms in kitchens and smoke alarms everywhere else. EDIT: If you have a dedicated central heating boiler room, that also gets a carbon monoxide alarm.
- closeparen 8y agoMy high-rise miraculously had the good sense to install normal-ish smoke detectors in the units so burnt food doesn’t trigger a building-wide alarm. Those still exist too, but the only one I’ve seen was real (sprinkler activation, ladder trucks, the works).