alarm system

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Liverpool City Council said it had visited the building "informally" in February 2023 "to check room sizes for intended occupancy" and whether the fire alarm system was suitable.

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2026

Earlier work from Dr. Cubillos-Ruiz and colleagues showed that a pathway known as IRE1α-XBP1 acts like a molecular "alarm system" in immune cells, switching on when these cells are under stress.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2025

Mysterious things keep happening — music suddenly blasts, doors slam, the lights go out and the alarm system roars in the middle of the night.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2025

The window had been disconnected from the alarm system after a defect caused repeated false alarms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

It was as if Farmer had built himself an alarm system that, with any extended free moment, set off a recording saying, “You’re forgetting Haiti.”

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French