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[[Image:10 19 8.JPEG|thumb|right|Firefighters enter [[EC]] from [[Morningside Drive]] during a fire alarm. As usual, this alarm was a false one.]]

A '''fire alarm''' is an event that is traditionally slept through at Columbia.

Sometimes, though, the firemen that rove the halls after each alarm will catch you. Given the small number of people who actually exit the building, it's surprising they don't do this more often.

Some time after each has occurred and been forgotten, the residents of the building involved will receive a letter indicating the cause, usually one or another floor/suite's poor cooking skills.

If your building has roof access that is blocked by an alarmed door, fire drills are a great time to go up there without triggering an alarm (because one is already going off!), make sure to block the door with something so your friends get up to the roof and so you don't trigger the alarm when you leave the roof.

If you are in John Jay, Hartley, or Wallach during a fire drill, you don't have to go outside, just walk over to the other building.

[[Category:Traditions]]
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