OLD NWTH - PULL CORDS

Lois Cook Cruz

Every apartment had emergency pull cords in every bedroom that would alert the front desk by lighting up on the control panel so we would know if someone needed help.

While the workers were on the 5th floor, the pull cord control panel kept going off.

The receptionist called the job supervisor and asked him to tell the workers not to pull those. He told them but they kept going off.

The supervisor decided to clear his workers off the floor, cut all power to the floor, lock all access to the floor, and they all headed down to the 1st floor.

About 10 minutes later, every single pull cord on the 5th floor went off.

There was no one on that floor and there was no power to the entire floor.