Students were evacuated from the Marriott Library Wednesday afternoon when a fire alarm was accidentally triggered inside.
Ian Godfrey, the library’s facilities and access services manager, said the library was in the process of refilling the emergency fire suppression device when the alarm was unintentionally set off.
Godfrey said the lines are filled with water unless they are being worked on, but they must be drained any time construction is taking place. The work was finished and the lines were being refilled when the alarm was triggered.
Students were evacuated, but allowed to re-enter the building a few minutes later. No services from the library were impacted and the fire suppression system is once again working at full strength.
“I think this was just your run-of-the-mill false alarm,” said Mike Halligan, associate director of environmental health and safety.
Jeremy Thompson