One of the most important discoveries the researchers have made from their hundreds of interviews with people involved in fires is the problems of recognising that there is a fire at all……….. . In a hotel fire, for example, guests woken by the sound of breaking glass put it down to someone smashing bottles outside - an event that had occurred on other occasions. In another incident, residents in a block of flats, hearing cracking and popping noises, put it down to vandals at work, made sure their doors were locked, and went back to the television. A) The fire alarms are usually interpreted as drills, tests or malfunctions - in the vast majority of cases quite correctly B) As fire is such an unusual experience that people will accept almost any other explanation of the early signs of a fire first C) The assumption implicit in all fire regulations bears little relation to peoples behaviours in practice D) Even when a fire is definitely identified, there is no immediate rush for the doors E) Smoke persuades people to leave a building but there are differences in the reaction of various groups
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