Fire services called to Law Faculty

Building evacuated as fire engine arrived at Sidgwick site after a false alarm

by Varsity News Team

This article is 10 years old

Friday February 20 2015, 3:09pm

This afternoon a false alarm lead to an evacuation of the Faculty of Law on Sidgwick Site.

Reports started coming in at around 2.30pm as a fire alarm went off and the entire building was evacuated.

A fire engine was seen arriving at the scene shortly after.

A representative of the Facuty of Law stated to Varsity: "This afternoon's evacuation of the building was due to a false alarm."

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