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Last night, around 6:30 p.m., a fire broke out in a mechanical room at Mount Sinai Hospital at Madison and East 98th Street. While the fire was quickly put out, the smoke was so heavy that patients were evacuated from the east wings to the west wings. WABC 7 spoke to the daughter of a patient waiting for a surgical procedure later this week: She said the alarm went off, "Then the smoke comes, The smell was strong, like something was burning," and minutes later "we couldn't breathe." Though a nurse initially told them to stay, they were eventually evacuated. The patient said, "I want to go back. I want to do my surgery."
Three-Alarm Fire at Mount Sinai Prompts Evacuations
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Hospitals should have a device that sucks the oxygen out of a room such as a mechanical room to prevent these types of accidents.
Thats epic fail.
Learn how to do it in the subway. Take gasoline hose, pour gasoline under slot, light on fire, token clerk does 1 of 2 things.
A. open door and run out of token booth
B. don't run out, let oxygen depleting gas (Halon) make him drop to floor and go unconscious, and probably die from no air, or the flames.
Thats why we don't use oxygen depleting gas. Only 2 places its ok is in a computer room (datacenter, usually with raised floor), or in library stacks/paper archives, and you must have 30 second alarm before the gas is released so people can escape from the room, and shut the door behind them. Also, general public/untrained people are never allowed in a Halon protected room, if it goes off, their dead.
While the fire was quickly put out, but the smoke was so heavy that patients were evacuated from the east wings to the west wings.
Though a nurse initially told them to stay but they were eventually evacuated; the patient said, "I want to go back. I want to do my surgery."
Come on.
i believe kane's problem, that he fails to actually articulate, preferring instead to simply feign exasperation, is that either the "but"s or the "while" and "though" need to be taken out to make either of those proper sentences.
i would like to say, though, that i am always in favor of the use of semi-colons.
"i would like to say, though, that i am always in favor of the use of semi-colons."
Are you saying that the patient in question was waiting for proctologists?
I, too, am a fan of the semi-colon (but not more than once in a post).
The "failure" to articulate was not a failure at all, but a statement that the errors were so obvious and egregious that they speak for themselves.