We at Rowan U have a similar situation. We have 19 buildings housing approximately 2,500 students. I've use Stopper IIs for over 12 years and no longer track pulled box alarms separately from other alarms since the number per year is so low, probably less than 12. Our cooking alarms have gone up dramatically since we redesigned our auto smoke detector systems in one apartment complex because of lack of kitchen exhaust directly to the outside, and microwaves in traditional halls.

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Here at Kent State University, we have 30 residence halls and about 6800
students. As of today we hit number 35 false alarms since January 1, 2000.
We have Stoppers on about 95% of the pull stations. We are at a all time
low for malicious alarms but alarms from cooking are on the rise.






At 01:22 PM 11/6/00 -0500, you wrote:
>List,
>
>I'm doing a study on false fire alarms (malicious) in residence hall
>facilities.  I'm trying to compare our numbers with other university's
>numbers.  We have 40 halls, approx. 7,300 residence, and are experiencing a
>few more false alarm than in the years past.   The majority of our systems
>are protected by the Stopper II local alarm device.  Only the older pull
>stations, which will not accommodate the SII, are not installed.
>
>I'm looking for:
>
>1.  false fire alarm (malicious) occurrences in residence hall facilities
>2.  number of residence halls and number of residence
>3.  success rate for Stopper II pull station guards
>
>Thank you in advance for your response,
>
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>Michael L. Moberly
>Fire Protection Coordinator
>Environmental Health & Safety
>Ohio University
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>740.593.1666 department
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