Spring Break
Four year old pulls fire alarm, King Library evacuated
Suzanne Yada
Issue date: 10/27/09 Section: News
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Eric Xu, a senior corporate finance major, said one of the members of his study group brought her two daughters to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library.
The older of the two pulled the fire alarm inside a sixth-floor study room around 8 p.m., he said.
Xu said the mother told her daughter not to worry.
"Nobody got in trouble," he said. "It was a four year old. What is she going to do?"
The false alarm marked the fourth one since mid-September for King Library.
Freshman psychology major Peter Tran said he was about to use King Library for the first time but was blocked from entering.
"It just shows how time-wasting the whole procedure is for a situation like this," he said. "I wish they would use a little more common sense. Now that they found out it was a four-year-old girl, why can't we just go in?"
Xu said though he knew right away it was a false alarm, he still thought it was a good idea to evacuate the building.
"It's always good to be cautious," he said.
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