NEW ENTRY**********6/17/2008: I'm typing this at 12:52 a.m. After about 15 minutes of the fire alarm going, it occurred to me that maybe there was no security and perhaps no one had been alerted. I called the office and after being placed on hold and listening to a pre-recorded message telling me to hold for an operator, I was transferred to another tenant also trying to get through. THE AFTER-HOURS SWITCHBOARD CROSSED THE LINES. NO OPERATOR EVER CAME ON. We both couldn't figure out how it was we were talking to eachother when we called the office after-hours line.
I placed a call to my spouse when the alarm started, and it finally stopped 30 MINUTES LATER. What I want to know is 1: Why did it take so long to get a response, and 2: What if there was a real fire, which there has been, and the person died in BUILDING 56. People, in an emergency, we only have each other. The management can only do so much. All fire doors should be open. If you see them closed, open them and report inoperable ones to management. They're supposed to shut automatically when these alarms go off, and they're not.
HELLO? Note to Management: 1. Fix all fire doors, please. 2. Put in cameras if you aren't going to have a sufficient number of live security to cover night shift. WORKING CAMERAS, not ones with no film, will probably catch people who are doing harmful things to the building. If you think this building can run by itself, it can't. We pay enough rent so that we should have a team of full maintenance, housekeeping, and security personnel on-call 24/7. Do you know how much damage can be done in 30 minutes if this were a real fire? What is going on? How about someone who knows what they're doing instead of people just dressing the part.
NEW ENTRY***************6/21/2008 at 1:20 a.m., the fire alarm sounded again and continued for about 20 minutes. The problem is that the more this happens, the more people will just assume it's not a real fire. If a real fire occurs, people will ignore it. Please set aside a bit of the half million dollars to fix the problem, management, please.
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