In my project for this semester I wanted to add in some of the stuff that I am learning for my major here at NJCU. I am a fire science major and for this project assignment I have decided that is would like to explain more about how important fire safety is in this portion of life for the age we are in. During this age, late teens and early 20’s there are many teens that think when the fire alarm goes off, it is just a false alarm and there is really nothing going on. The way that I think about it is if there is an alarm sounding, no matter how often it may go off and just be a false alarm, there is a reason for the alarm to be going off. Although sometimes the alarms may have a malfunction, there is still an immediate danger. When this can become like a monthly thing, or even a little more often like in the college dorms perhaps, some people will start to take batteries out of the alarm remote heads, leading  to their alarm to not go off. The New Jersey Division of fire safety (NJDFS) has now regulated the new type of fire alarms. There fire alarms have a ten year guaranteed battery and they can not be taken out. The battery is now integrated into the system.

            The reason I had talked about the college student age is because of the seton hall fire. About 20 years ago there was a fire in the Boland hall in the seton hall dorms. There was a fire, and just like an ongoing problem with the alarms going off, nobody had evacuated, and there were 58 injuries and 3 deaths. This fire had drawn a big amount of attention to many camouses on fire safety in their dorms and even just in the schools. To this day, there are some survivors of the fire that had happened that still go around and will give fire safety talks about what had really happened and how they think college students should react.  I have added some fire safety suggestions in the powerpoint as well.

I have pulled up some facts and I had looked into them and I have come to realize that fires in a lot of houses the fire alarm systems look to be disconnected, or not even working. Checking your alarms monthly is very important and there should be people all about this stuff. When I think about it, the alarms that everyone should have in their houses go off and they are meant to save lives and limit the damage and losses to your property. The alarm can sound early and if it sounds early enough, the loss to the house and the lives can be limited greatly.

              

            There is another reason that I had chose this as well. There has been studies that younger kids have started sleeping through alarms as well. This can lead to all sorts of horrible things. So there has been companies that are experimenting making what is called a Personalized parents voice smoke alarm. This can help because the younger child can have a better chance at waking up for the parents voice at times than the tone of the alarm going off. In my opinion this is really important because as you can imagine, children and fires do not mix well. Sometimes children will get scared and will try and hide when there is a fire and that makes it hard on firefighters to find them as they may be in a closet or somewhere else. On a side note, there are also children that start to run back and grab stuff sometimes. They will usually try and go back and get a pet or even a gaming system as they don’t want to lose some of their most valuable stuff.