LORIMER: From the reports that I have gotten, it was a kind of fire alarm that is not the old-fashioned kind that someone might have pulled. One of the questions I had about this. It was a kind that would be automatically triggered. in this case, the underlying rationale was there was steam that came out of a piece of equipment and steam set it off, I think much in the same way we might have one of the alarm go off in our house, if you're boiling something on the kitchen stove.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: And was it an accidental stream or was it a steam that was caused by a human being?
MERTZ: I believe it was caused by a human being opening up a device that let the steam out.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: By mistake or on purpose?
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