False alarm at Academic Building

September 20, 2001

A false fire alarm shortly before 9 a.m. Thursday morning left the Academic Building evacuated for approximately twenty minutes.
“It was pretty much a false alarm. Someone reported a burning electrical smell on the second floor,” said Dr. Don Curtis, the Academic Building proctor.
According to Dessie Campbell, a senior secretary for the Department of Sociology, a graduate student came in to the Department of Sociology office before 8 a.m., reporting that she could smell something burning in the stairwell. The fire alarm was pulled when staff members saw smoke.
“This has happened before; the lights will flicker and then there will be a pop or flash of fire. I’ve seen it happen once, but I’ve heard people tell of it before,” said Leslie Seikes, a word processor in the Department of Sociology.

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