Students were sent out into the cold Oct. 6 when the alarm went off in Prescott House around 10:30 p.m.
Staff Sergeant Alicia Poole from Carleton’s Campus Safety said Ottawa Fire Services found no cause for the alarm to go off.
“There was no cause found. So no pull station activated. Ottawa Fire did not find a reason why it went off,” Poole said.
There was no fire and no students were injured.
Bree Bacon, a first-year journalism student who lives in Prescott, said all students had to be evacuated when the alarm went off.
“We all waited outside until the fire department came to investigate and then after about 10 minutes they left and everyone could go back inside,” Bacon said via Facebook.
Bacon added students were not informed of the cause of the fire alarm by officials.
Poole said the alarm is always automatic, regardless of the reason. “If a fire alarm goes off in a building Ottawa Fire is dispatched to attend all fire calls,” Poole said. “There was no cause found, no fire.”
