Fire safety advice for students

Print

By Communications Staff
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Personal safety and fire safety are given high priority at Western and tinkering with fire equipment creates a risk. And if this occurs, consequences should be expected.
 
Campus Community Police Service (CCPS) recently received a fire alarm that was activated in one of the residences. Fire trucks were dispatched and the alarm was determined to be false.
 
However, because the fire system could not be re-set, the source of the alarm needed to be traced and the problem was found to be in a single unit where the occupant was found to have deliberately damaged a heat detector.
 
The fire alarm resulted in the building being evacuated, a risk to firefighters responding to the alarm, electricians being called to trace the source of the alarm and the requirement for campus police to maintain coordination of the occurrence and the safety of individuals.
 
“Creating damage to university property, and risk to the personal safety of others, is a Code of Student Conduct offence and exposes the resident to eviction,” says CCPS director Elgin Austen. “The university treats such events as serious and takes every reasonable measure to maintain personal safety on campus.”

Also from this web page:

About

Hours

Weekdays
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
(holidays excluded)

Contact

Publisher:
Helen Connell (hconnell@uwo.ca)

Editor:
Jason Winders (newseditor@uwo.ca)

Reporter/Photographer:
Paul Mayne (pmayne@uwo.ca)

Reporter/Photographer:
Heather Travis (htravis2@uwo.ca)

Advertising Coordinator:
Denise Jones (advertise@uwo.ca)

Off-Campus Advertising Sales:
Chris Amyot, Campus Ad (campusad@sympatico.ca)

National Advertising Representative:
Campus Plus

Phone:
519-661-2045

Fax:
519-661-3921

Mail:
Western News, Suite 360
Westminster Hall
The University of Western Ontario, London N6A 3K7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Western provides the best student experience among Canada's leading research-intensive universities.