Re: Colorado shooting - fire alarm

["Bob La Londe" <none@xxxxxxxx>]

"Just Looking" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I don't know about Colorado regulations, but it seems to me from some of
> the news reports I heard that the fire alarm wasn't used, but some sort of
> mass notification was instead. The alert was telling people to flee the
> shooter, but people were leaving the same way each had entered in the
> first place and that is where the shooter was picking them off. Someone
> said that a jam in the weapon prevented a lot more deaths.
> As far as the fire alarm goes, most theaters are manual evacuation with
> the air handlers tied in for good measure. In many jurisdictions the air
> handler detector must simply shut down the air handler itself and generate
> a trouble condition on the panel and not a general alarm.
>

Given the number of falses from duct detectors that would make sense.  Been
a while since I did a fire alarm, but none of those I did were setup that
way.