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Dear labmembers -- Around 10:45 pm Thursday evening, the general building fire alarm went off. (And I understand everyone evacuated the lab and building as you were trained - thank you!) The Palo Alto Fire department responded, but found no emergency situation. So, they reset the alarm and cleared the building for re-entry. It is not clear yet exactly what happened, but appears not to involve the lab and we were assured the building was safe. When a fire alarm goes off for any reason, for safety reasons, all toxic gases automatically shut off. With a few exceptions, these have been reset (please check Badger for those exceptions.) Also, until about 1 am, there was little or no oxygen or hydrogen flow -- so if you were using a system requiring either of these gases between 10:45 pm - 1 am, please check your wafers before continuing to process. And if you encounter a machine problem, please note on badger. Apologies for the inconvenience. The maintenance crew will be in bright and early to clean things up. Mary -- Mary X. Tang, Ph.D. Stanford Nanofabrication Facility Paul G. Allen Bldg 141, Mail Code 4070 Stanford, CA 94305 (650)723-9980 mtang@stanford.edu http://snf.stanford.edu _______________________________________________ labmembers mailing list labmembers@snf.stanford.edu http://snf.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/labmembers
On investigation by the Stanford Fire Alarm shop, last night's alarm appears to have been triggered by a faulty smoke detector mount. This is being repaired now.
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