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		<title>My office caught fire!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week there was havoc in ITES Habitat Center. It was caused due to a (false) fire alarm triggered. Me along with my friends were sitting in our office and two of my friends, Jojo and John went out to have a coffee. After some time we heard a smoke alarm beeping. We thought it [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last week there was havoc in ITES Habitat Center. It was caused due to a (false) fire alarm triggered. Me along with my friends were sitting in our office and two of my friends, Jojo and John went out to have a coffee. After some time we heard a smoke alarm beeping. We thought it might be some error in the system, but then one after another smoke alarms tripped.</p>
<p>Security people where running all  over and in 10 seconds we lost power. I went outside to investigate whats going on. When i reached the lobby what i saw was somewhat shocking.</p>
<p>Thick smoke was coming from the North wing and people where running outside. I rushed to my office and told people there, Lijo, Charles, Sajeesh to go outside, there is a fire outside. Within few seconds they cleared the office. Then i phoned Jojo and yelled on the loud speaker, <strong>&#8220;Come to office, there is a F.I.R.E. in our office&#8221;</strong>. He didn&#8217;t believed me at first, I had to tell couple of times to convince him.</p>
<p>We all cleared our offices and went outside. Just after 30 seconds (roughly after 5 minutes the beginning) a fire truck came to the scene.</p>
<p>After staying there for some time, we found out that it was a false fire trigger. All of us except me went to home, while i stayed in the office (devoted to work <img src='http://www.cyriac.me/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> ). Then I had a chat with our security officer, and he said what caused all this. First we thought something (electrical) burned in the A/C room and smoke spread through the centralized A/C vent. But later it was found that some people (workers in the stadium) outside office burned some stuff and the smoke was sucked in by the A/C air intake system. They said it was due to a thrown away cigarette bud.</p>
<p>Again after further investigation, they found that these people outside  burned waste thermocol and it produced the foul smelling smoke, which everybody misunderstood as a fire caused by electrical failure. Later when these people found the mess they had created, they poured water on the fire and then put a cigarette bud so that they can say it was an accident.</p>
<p>Since no damage was caused to anyone, none of the workers had any trouble.</p>

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<p>Story time is over. Now lets get to something serious. <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Do you know what to do when your office/house caught a fire ?</strong></span> <strong><a title="Click here" href="http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/HomeAndCommunity/InYourHome/Escapingandrecoveringfromafire/DG_071794" target="_blank">Click here</a></strong> to read a detailed guidelines on what to do. <strong>I think everyone should read it atleast once, because you dont know when&#8230;.</strong></p>
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