Evergreen State staff turned off carbon monoxide alarms before student's death
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/evergreen-state-staff-turned-off-carbon-monoxide-alarms-before-students-death/
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CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 2y
The alarm(s!) were going off for 14 hours! They were reset at least 4 times. How did no one think, "Oh, there might be a CO leak! I better investigate"?
The only correct thing to do when you hear a CO alarm is to evacuate and get someone with the tools to deal with the problem to help (usually the fire department).
Poor guy. I hope the other victims recover.
SeaJ@lemm.ee · 17 pts · 2y
Maintenance claimed they thought it was a false alarm. If you do not investigate it and just keep turning it off, there is no way you can legitimately claim that you thought it was a false alarm. The only way you can do that is if you actually test and find it was a false alarm.
BoxerDevil@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y
The person who turned the alarm off needs to be held accountable
Empricorn@feddit.nl · 10 pts · 2y
There's stupid, and then there's *criminally stupid. I hope they throw the book at whoever was responsible...