SFU Surrey fire alarm, alert or disturb?

            As the fire alarm continues to beep, staff and students are unconcerned with the dangerous situation they may be in. At SFU Surrey, the fire alarm goes off so often that staff and students now attempt to tune out the alert during their tasks. The individuals try to ignore the alerts due to the amount of false alarms they have experienced at the campus.

            Professors and teacher's assistants (TA)  struggle to maintain regulations in classes once the beeping of the fire alarm begins. Students who are new to the campus are unaware of the situation, so they panic, making it harder for teachers to remain control of classes. Annoyance also arises when students can no longer hear what their professor or TA is saying due to the loud beeping noises. Classes are disrupted by the loud beeping of what was supposed to be an alert.

            Students who have exams to study for are also disturbed by SFU Surrey's fire alarm. Students who go to the library to study in a quiet environment are startled by the loud beeping noises. Some students find it difficult to concentrate with noises, especially continuous loud beeping noises that do not go away for at least 15 minutes. Students are definitely alerted, however, they continue to ignore the bothersome beeping.

            SFU Surrey's fire alarm beeps for several minutes before an announcement stating that the "situation is under control" and there was "only an accident in the retail section of the building." The beeping continues to beep for another 5-10 minutes, irritating those who are inside of SFU Surrey campus.

            Should SFU Surrey's fire alarm be connected with the mall's fire alarm if it only goes off due to the accidents in the retail section of the building? Individuals of SFU Surrey are becoming more annoyed of these accidents that causes the fire alarm to go off. Now that staff and students are used to the fire alarm going off, will they ignore the fire alarm the one time it is an emergency? The fire alarm is ignored because it has a bigger role in disturbing than alerting individuals within the building.