their patience as the building was brought back on line.
I believe all the process gases are back on line and the facility
is fully functional. As with any event (or good engineering
practice), monitor your process to make sure the systems are running.
What happened today was a real event in a lab in the CISX
building. During a major, biannual cleaning there was a flair up of
the deposited material when it was exposed to the atmosphere. The
flair up was small and short lived, but it produced enough smoke to
trigger the smoke alarm in the room causing the building to be
evacuated. Any time there is a smoke alarm the fire department is
called in and they take responsibility for the subsequent chain of
events. Today's evacuation was more lengthily, with many more
departments responding because of health concerns raised by some of
the materials used in the system. The fire department needed to make
sure the room and building would be safe for our reentry. Thankfully
no one was injured and ultimately the building was deemed safe.
Regards,
The SNF Staff
on behalf of the Palo Alto Fire Department, Stanford Police
Department, Stanford EH&S to name a few.
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