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Wonder why the system didn't call the fire department itself. Why bother with the human element of the guard at all? This is Notre Dame we're talking about.
by baggy_trough 7y ago
Wonder why the system didn't call the fire department itself. Why bother with the human element of the guard at all? This is Notre Dame we're talking about.
- userbinator 7y agoToo many false alarms?
- londons_explore 7y agoOne sensor detecting a fire can be a false alarm. More than one sensor detecting a fire is very rarely a false alarm, and really ought to call the fire department.
- giancarlostoro 7y agoDo we know this to be true? If the alarm is going off for a good solid few minutes it might be worth a checkup.
- silvestrov 7y agoMost automatic alarms are false. As far as I remember it's more than 90% in Denmark. Accepting an error rate at 98% for Notre Dame should be a no-brainer.
- perfunctory 7y agoI dunno. Do you want fire trucks sirening through the city blocking traffic every day?
- 0xffff2 7y agoThat's already a fact of life in every large city I've ever been in.
- Johnny555 7y agoThere's a cost for deploying firetrucks, both in dollars and opportunity cost -- when you send 5 trucks to Notre Dame twice a week just in case the alarm is real this time, those trucks and firefighters aren't available to respond to a real fire
- kweks 7y agoMost major monuments in France have resident firemen, for this reason.