THREE STRAIGHT HOURS.
Apparently someone took one of the emergency exit doors which activates the alarm, and in this particular building, the only way to deactivate the alarm is for one of the apt coordinators to come by and use a key to shut it off.
Futher complicating the manner, since it's a university apt building there's no live-in landlord/manager, the way emergencies like this one are handled is that an on-call coordinator has to receive a call about the situation, come by, access it, go to the main office to pick up a key, go back to that building, and shut it off.
Annd, as if that wasn't enough, what happened was apparently they had just switched the emergency door for that building just two days ago, and there was no key for the door available yet.
The on-call coordinator guy then calls his supervisor to come by..and they're there right next to the deafening alarm going off trying to shut it off somehow..and finally three hours and dozens of really really pissed off tenants later they are able to cut the wire off the alarm to shut it off.
Cliff's:
*alarm goes off
*no way to deactivate it
*takes three hours for someone to cut off wire
Apparently someone took one of the emergency exit doors which activates the alarm, and in this particular building, the only way to deactivate the alarm is for one of the apt coordinators to come by and use a key to shut it off.
Futher complicating the manner, since it's a university apt building there's no live-in landlord/manager, the way emergencies like this one are handled is that an on-call coordinator has to receive a call about the situation, come by, access it, go to the main office to pick up a key, go back to that building, and shut it off.
Annd, as if that wasn't enough, what happened was apparently they had just switched the emergency door for that building just two days ago, and there was no key for the door available yet.
The on-call coordinator guy then calls his supervisor to come by..and they're there right next to the deafening alarm going off trying to shut it off somehow..and finally three hours and dozens of really really pissed off tenants later they are able to cut the wire off the alarm to shut it off.
Cliff's:
*alarm goes off
*no way to deactivate it
*takes three hours for someone to cut off wire
