I have to disagree. Fire alarms are blunt instruments. There can be and are emergency situations that do not require dumping an entire building, and where doing so can only add to the problem. Most common is a medical emergency, where you need to get specialists IN quickly to a specific location.
Peter Zavon, CIH
Penfield, NY
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For the various reasons that people have cited, I don’t think that phones in general are a good choice for emergency communications. That’s what building fire alarms are for.
- Ralph
Ralph Stuart, CIH, CCHO
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