Ryan
Urban
Professor
Cacoilo
Acts
of Resistance
23
March, 2020
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.
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.
I find this topic to be very interesting and I think it is something great to focus on and enforce the awareness about it. It's true that not many people take fire safety seriously and will panic in real life situations thus leading to people getting hurt when if we had the right information before hand everyone would be safe. Can't wait to see what you come up with to teach us about fire safety and I like that you're relating to your major as well!
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