False fire alarm triggers mass fainting in factory PP.

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Anchor Moy
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False fire alarm triggers mass fainting in factory PP.

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If the bell rings, faint, scream or panic. What a mess. This sort of defeats the purpose of a fire alarm. :dragonchase:
Nineteen garment workers passed out at a Phnom Penh factory yesterday after an alarm went off. Cheav Bunrith, spokesman for the National Social Security Fund, said the workers at the South Land (Cambodia) factory in Por Sen Chey district “panicked and fainted” following the false fire alarm.

Thean Srey Nuth, an employee who did not faint, said that the incident occurred just as the workers began work.
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“When they heard the alarm, they were afraid and ran. Some fell to the ground,” she said.
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weeke ... s-fainting

And this is not the first time there has been a hysterical reaction to fire alarms. For everyone's safety, there should be some fire drills on how to "stay calm and don't panic" - just imagine a factory fire combined with mass fainting. Horrific.
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/a ... anic-faint
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/f ... r-fainting
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Re: False fire alarm triggers mass fainting in factory PP.

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Probably a great blessing there were no bridges in that building.
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