University Daily Kansan, February 4, 1983
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Efforts to lessen bogus fire alarms work
By DON HENRY Staff Reporter
It's 2 in the morning.
A residence hall fire alarm goes off and groggy students throw on robes and parka's and slouch outside, huddling in groups to stay warm.
It's another false alarm at a KU residence hall.
But the scene is much less common than it was last year. Bogus fire alarms disturbed students at KU residence halls only five times last semester, 15 less than the same time the year before. Jim McSwain, chief of the Lawrence Fire Department, said yesterday.
"THE STUDENTS and resident directors have really realized the seriousness of the false alarm problem." be said.
The fire department and the Office of Residential Programs made a con-
certified effort to educate residents about the dangers of false alarms last
Ruth Mikkelson, associate director of residential programs, said her office had taken several actions to combat the problem. She says there are largely responsible for the reduction.
"I feel the students were much more considerate last semester," she said. "Without them, this reduction would not have been possible."
McSwain said the fire department presented a program on fire prevention and false alarms to each of the residence halls at the beginning of last semester, including a film about the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas several years ago.
HE SAID from 25 to 50 people attended the programs, which were presented right after dinner at all KU residence hills.
"The most important thing is that it got around by word of mouth."
McMishain said, "We think people are beginning to understand the problems
McMain said his department also distributed pamphlets that explained how the program worked.
False alarms condition people not to respond in real fires, he said, and they could keep firefighters away from real emergencies.
"In case of a real fire," McSwain
people might just roll over and
go back.
The Lawrence Fire Department is one of the first departments in the country to take specific action to address number of false alarms in residence halls.
"WE'VE HAD A number of other fire departments near universities ask for our pamphlet and information about what we've done." he said.
Fire departments from 11 states, including the departments at Wichita Falls and Oklahoma City.
Missouri at Columbia, have asked McSwain for details about the program.
She said some of ORP's efforts to curb the problem included:
- Offering a $200 reward to people who provide information that leads to the arrest of anyone who sets off the alarm falsely.
- Educating staff and residents about the dangers of false alarms.
- Cooperating with KU police in seeking offenders
- Installation of plastic-encased alarm levers that are harder to pull, at the request of J.J. Wilson, KU's director of housing.
- Increasing efforts to create peer pressure among students to discourage failure
McSwain said the fire department had recently started to create diagrams of University buildings, called "pre-plans."
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