Yesterday, I waited outside 300 Market Street in Southern Village while Chapel Hill firemen waited for someone to come with a key to a storage room in which, it seems, fire alarm controls were located. I learned form the firemen that they had been responding to false alarms from this building many times.
I asked if there were other places in Chapel Hill with the same chronic problem. They said no. For UNC, they have an agreement that if they get a second false alarm from any spot on campus, a fire safety person from UNC must join them to resolve the difficulty. There are no fines on building owners for multiple false alarms. This information - the sending of false alarms - is all public information and it would make a good story to look at which businesses - and possibly some individuals - in all of the CHCHP jurisdictions are wasting the time of our firefighters.
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