I am a fire warden for my office. Each Monday morning I set off a different fire alarm to test the system, and another of my colleagues mutes and resets it. If, by the time the system is reset, the fire alarm I set off is not reading 'OK', then the alarm goes off again.
Only the second time, the entire building gets evacuated.
This morning, I set off one of the little alarm panels, and it fell to bits.
I found myself scrabbling around on the floor of one of the boardrooms for the little 'BREAK GLASS IN CASE OF FIRE' panel whilst juggling the red plastic front half of a fire alarm, a small button, and a key. I was panicking. I had less than ten seconds to figure out how the bloody thing worked, how it went back together, and then actually get it together.
I managed it...just.
Although I think the glass panel may actually be in backwards.
Good job, however, wouldn't have been more fun to have had the entire building evacuated? Surely you couldn't be blamed for a dodgy alarm panel?
Blee!
Hello!
Yes it would have been more fun...but the piss-taking...not so much.
;-)