Life Safety is an initiative of the Office of Residential Life to raise awareness and educate residential students about the importance of properly maintaining fire prevention equipment. Across the United States a fire occurs every 90 seconds. It can take approximately 8 minutes for firefighters to arrive to the scene of a fire. Additionally, when Life Safety equipment is tampered with, a fire can become life threatening in just 2 minutes.
Some examples of life safety equipment are exit signs, emergency lights, floodlights, fire evacuation maps, sprinkler heads, fire extinguishers, smoke detectors, and fire alarm pull stations.
Broken exit signs; damaged emergency lights; missing and/or altered fire evacuation maps, fire extinguishers, smoke detectors, fire alarm pull stations; and sprinkler heads that discharge due to causes other than fire.