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Fire alarm in Sherman-Fairchild Physics has been cleared

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Lehigh University Police issued a HawkWatch notification. Full text is preserved from the official AppArmor CAP alert page.

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Documented Timeline

Alert Sequence

1 message in sequence · 1 verified verbatim

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Verified verbatim216 chars
Fire Alarm in Sherman-Fairchild Center - Physics Building has been cleared. The fire alarm in Sherman-Fairchild Center - Physics Building has been cleared. It is safe to return to the building and resume activities.
Transcribed from official lehigh.apparmor.com HawkWatch CAP page.
incident.date from Alert sent timestamp on CAP page.
B52 first-message queue 2026-08-17: first preserved message is type update (not 'initial'); no earlier official initial located on cited source at re-check. Record starts here; type left unchanged.
RESET SPRINT b3: stripped AppArmor/Rave vendor footer and trailing CRLF padding (2026 copyright page furniture on live CAP page). Body bytes otherwise unchanged.
Message elements

How the first alert is built

To check this alert, Claude Opus 5 (an AI) read it in full 25 separate times, independently. Each read decided whether the message answers each of the six questions and gave a short reason. A final reviewer then weighed all 25 and wrote the plain-English verdict you see when you open a row. The score (for example 22/25) is how many reads agreed; the 25 individual reads are tucked underneath if you want to check them.

Fire Alarm in Sherman-Fairchild Center - Physics Building has been cleared. The fire alarm in Sherman-Fairchild Center - Physics Building has been cleared. It is safe to return to the building and resume activities.

  • Sourceabsent0/25

    Final assessment

    Absent, 0 of 25. No sender tag, university name, department or agency signature appears; the text is entirely about the alarm status.

    Who is sending the alert and who is responding. People act faster on a message from a clearly identifiable, credible sender, such as a named department, the police, or a branded alert system, than on an anonymous notice. A branded signature counts.

    See all 25 individual reads
    1. absent: No sender tag, university name or agency appears anywhere in the message.
    2. absent: No sender, department or institution is named anywhere in the two lines.
    3. absent: No sender, agency or institutional signature appears in the notice.
    4. absent: Nobody is identified as sender; the text is entirely about the alarm status.
    5. absent: No sender, agency or branded tag appears anywhere in the message.
    6. absent: No sender, university name or agency appears anywhere in this clearance notice.
    7. absent: No sender, department or branded tag identifies who issued this clearance message.
    8. absent: The text never names a sender, department or alert brand.
    9. absent: Message names no sender, department or alert brand anywhere.
    10. absent: No issuing office, agency, or alert brand is named.
    11. absent: No sender, agency or branded tag identifies who issued this clearance.
    12. absent: Nobody signs or claims the message; no agency or brand tag.
    13. absent: No sender, agency or branded tag appears anywhere in the two sentences.
    14. absent: No sender tag, agency, or institution names itself in this clearance message.
    15. absent: No issuing office, agency or branded tag appears in the text.
    16. absent: No sender, agency or branded signature appears in the notice.
    17. absent: No sender, agency or branded tag appears anywhere in the clearance notice.
    18. absent: No sender, department, or branded signature appears anywhere in the message.
    19. absent: The message never names a department, sender tag or the university itself.
    20. absent: The message never names a sender, department or branded alert tag.
    21. absent: The message carries no sender tag, agency or institution name.
    22. absent: No sender, university name or agency appears in the message.
    23. absent: No sender tag, agency or institution identifies itself in this text.
    24. absent: No sender, branded tag or agency appears in the text.
    25. absent: No sender, department, or branded tag appears anywhere in this clearance notice.
  • Hazardpresent25/25

    Final assessment

    Present, 25 of 25. "Fire alarm" names the specific condition being reported and cleared, rather than a generic incident.

    What the threat actually is. A complete warning names the specific danger, such as a shooter, a fire, a tornado, or a gas leak, rather than a vague emergency, because people decide what to do based on what they are facing.

    See all 25 individual reads
    1. present: "Fire alarm" names a specific hazard condition rather than a generic incident.
    2. present: "Fire alarm" identifies the specific condition being reported and cleared.
    3. present: "Fire alarm" identifies the specific condition being reported.
    4. present: 'Fire alarm' in the physics building names the specific condition.
    5. present: "fire alarm" names the specific condition being reported.
    6. present: "Fire alarm" identifies the specific condition being reported.
    7. present: "The fire alarm in Sherman-Fairchild Center" names a fire alarm hazard.
    8. present: "Fire Alarm in Sherman-Fairchild Center" names the fire alarm condition.
    9. present: "The fire alarm" identifies the fire-alarm condition being resolved.
    10. present: A fire alarm is the specific situation referenced.
    11. present: "Fire Alarm in Sherman-Fairchild Center" names the hazard condition.
    12. present: "Fire alarm" identifies the specific condition that prompted the message.
    13. present: "The fire alarm" names the specific condition being reported as cleared.
    14. present: "Fire Alarm in Sherman-Fairchild Center" identifies the alarm condition as the hazard.
    15. present: "The fire alarm" identifies the fire-alarm condition as the subject.
    16. present: A "fire alarm" is named as the situation, now cleared.
    17. present: "Fire alarm" in the physics building names the specific situation.
    18. present: "Fire alarm" names the specific situation being reported cleared.
    19. present: "Fire alarm" identifies the specific condition that prompted the notice.
    20. present: "Fire alarm" in the named building identifies the specific concern, now resolved.
    21. present: 'Fire Alarm' names the specific condition being reported as cleared.
    22. present: "The fire alarm" names a fire alarm condition as the subject hazard.
    23. present: "Fire Alarm in Sherman-Fairchild Center" names the hazard condition.
    24. present: "Fire Alarm in Sherman-Fairchild Center" names the alarm condition as hazard.
    25. present: "The fire alarm" names the specific condition that prompted the message.
  • Locationpresent25/25

    Final assessment

    Present, 25 of 25. "Sherman-Fairchild Center - Physics Building" is a specific named building, given in both the heading and the body.

    Where the threat is. Saying whether danger is in a specific building, a part of campus, or area-wide lets people judge their own proximity and choose a safe direction. Without a where, a warning is hard to act on precisely.

    See all 25 individual reads
    1. present: "Sherman-Fairchild Center - Physics Building" names the building.
    2. present: "Sherman-Fairchild Center - Physics Building" is a named building.
    3. present: "Sherman-Fairchild Center - Physics Building" is a named building.
    4. present: 'Sherman-Fairchild Center - Physics Building' is a named place.
    5. present: "Sherman-Fairchild Center - Physics Building".
    6. present: "Sherman-Fairchild Center - Physics Building" is a named building.
    7. present: Sherman-Fairchild Center, the Physics Building, is specified.
    8. present: "Sherman-Fairchild Center - Physics Building" is a named building.
    9. present: "Sherman-Fairchild Center - Physics Building" is a named building.
    10. present: Sherman-Fairchild Center Physics Building is named.
    11. present: "Sherman-Fairchild Center - Physics Building" is a named building.
    12. present: "Sherman-Fairchild Center - Physics Building" is named.
    13. present: "Sherman-Fairchild Center - Physics Building" is the named place.
    14. present: "Sherman-Fairchild Center - Physics Building" is a named building.
    15. present: "Sherman-Fairchild Center - Physics Building" is a named building.
    16. present: "Sherman-Fairchild Center - Physics Building" is a named building.
    17. present: "Sherman-Fairchild Center - Physics Building" is a named building.
    18. present: "Sherman-Fairchild Center - Physics Building" is the location.
    19. present: "Sherman-Fairchild Center - Physics Building" is a named building.
    20. present: "Sherman-Fairchild Center - Physics Building" is a named building.
    21. present: 'Sherman-Fairchild Center - Physics Building' is a named building.
    22. present: "Sherman-Fairchild Center - Physics Building" is a named building.
    23. present: The Sherman-Fairchild Center Physics Building is named.
    24. present: "Sherman-Fairchild Center - Physics Building" is a named building.
    25. present: "Sherman-Fairchild Center - Physics Building" is a named building.
  • Guidancepresent25/25

    Final assessment

    Present, 25 of 25. "It is safe to return to the building and resume activities" tells recipients exactly what they may now do.

    The protective action to take. A clear, specific instruction, such as shelter in place, evacuate, avoid the area, or run-hide-fight, drives faster and more correct protective behavior than describing the threat alone.

    See all 25 individual reads
    1. present: "It is safe to return to the building and resume activities" directs recipient action.
    2. present: "It is safe to return to the building and resume activities" directs recipient action.
    3. present: "It is safe to return to the building and resume activities" instructs recipients.
    4. present: 'It is safe to return to the building and resume activities' instructs recipients.
    5. present: "It is safe to return to the building and resume activities" directs recipients.
    6. present: "It is safe to return to the building and resume activities" directs recipient action.
    7. present: "It is safe to return to the building and resume activities" directs recipient action.
    8. present: "It is safe to return to the building and resume activities" directs recipient action.
    9. present: "It is safe to return to the building and resume activities" tells recipients what to do.
    10. present: It is safe to return to the building and resume activities.
    11. present: "It is safe to return to the building and resume activities" instructs recipients.
    12. present: "It is safe to return to the building and resume activities" directs recipient action.
    13. present: "It is safe to return to the building and resume activities" tells recipients what to do.
    14. present: "It is safe to return to the building and resume activities" instructs recipients.
    15. present: "It is safe to return to the building and resume activities" directs behavior.
    16. present: "It is safe to return to the building and resume activities" directs recipient action.
    17. present: "It is safe to return to the building and resume activities" instructs recipients to re-enter.
    18. present: "It is safe to return to the building and resume activities" directs recipients.
    19. present: "It is safe to return to the building and resume activities" tells recipients what to do.
    20. present: "It is safe to return to the building and resume activities" directs recipient action.
    21. present: 'It is safe to return to the building and resume activities' instructs recipients.
    22. present: "It is safe to return to the building and resume activities" instructs recipients.
    23. present: "It is safe to return to the building and resume activities" instructs recipients.
    24. present: "It is safe to return to the building and resume activities" tells recipients what to do.
    25. present: "It is safe to return to the building and resume activities" directs the reader.
  • Timeabsent1/25

    Final assessment

    Absent by majority, 1 of 25 read it as present. No clock time, date or recency phrase appears. The lone dissent took the past-tense "has been cleared" as a just-now status marker.

    When the message applies. A timestamp, the word now or immediately, or a phrase like until further notice tells the reader whether the danger is current and how quickly to act.

    See all 25 individual reads
    1. absent: No clock time, date or recency phrase is present.
    2. absent: No time, date or recency word; only the completed status "has been cleared".
    3. absent: No clock time, date or word conveying when this happened.
    4. absent: No time, date, or recency marker beyond a plain past-tense verb.
    5. absent: No time, date or recency marker is given.
    6. absent: "has been cleared" reports status without any time, date or recency marker.
    7. absent: No clock time, date or recency term is given.
    8. absent: No clock time, date or word such as now or until further notice.
    9. absent: "has been cleared" carries no clock time, date or recency marker.
    10. absent: No time, date, or explicit recency marker given.
    11. absent: No time, date or recency marker is given.
    12. absent: No time, date, or recency marker is given.
    13. absent: No clock time, date, or explicit recency wording is present.
    14. present: "has been cleared" conveys the current, just-now status.
    15. absent: No time, date or recency marker is present.
    16. absent: No clock, date or explicit recency term is included.
    17. absent: No clock time, date or word like now conveys when the clearance happened.
    18. absent: No time, date, or recency marker is given.
    19. absent: No clock time, date or word such as now or until further notice.
    20. absent: No time, date or recency word accompanies "has been cleared".
    21. absent: No time, date or recency marker appears in the text.
    22. absent: No clock, date or recency word accompanies the clearance.
    23. absent: No clock, date or recency term is given.
    24. absent: No clock, date or recency marker is present.
    25. absent: Only past-tense clearance; no time stamp, date, or recency cue.
  • Impactabsent0/25

    Final assessment

    Absent, 0 of 25. This is a stand-down notice: no harm, damage or severity is described, only that the condition has ended.

    What the hazard could do to the people in its path. Beyond naming the threat, a complete warning conveys its potential consequences or severity, such as that a tornado can level buildings or that a leak could be explosive, so recipients grasp how much danger they are in. Research on warning message content finds that a concrete impact statement helps people personalize their risk and act sooner.

    See all 25 individual reads
    1. absent: An all-clear with no consequence or severity described.
    2. absent: No harm or severity is conveyed; the message is purely a stand-down.
    3. absent: Nothing about danger or damage; the message only lifts the condition.
    4. absent: An all-clear with no severity or potential consequence stated.
    5. absent: Nothing about potential harm; the message is an all clear.
    6. absent: No harm or severity is described; the condition is over.
    7. absent: No consequence or severity stated; the condition is already resolved.
    8. absent: An all-clear with no mention of harm or severity.
    9. absent: No potential harm is stated; the notice is purely an all-clear.
    10. absent: Condition is cleared with no consequence or danger described.
    11. absent: No potential harm or severity is described.
    12. absent: An all-clear with no consequence or severity described.
    13. absent: An all-clear with no statement of potential consequences or severity.
    14. absent: No consequence or severity is conveyed; the message reports the all clear.
    15. absent: No consequence or severity conveyed; the condition is over.
    16. absent: No consequence or severity is described.
    17. absent: The alarm is cleared and no potential harm or severity is stated.
    18. absent: No potential consequence or severity is stated.
    19. absent: The alarm is cleared and no potential consequence is described.
    20. absent: No consequence or severity is described, only that the condition ended.
    21. absent: No potential harm or severity is conveyed; the situation is resolved without describing risk.
    22. absent: No consequence or severity stated; the condition is over.
    23. absent: No consequence stated; the message reports the condition is over.
    24. absent: The all-clear conveys no potential harm or severity.
    25. absent: Nothing about possible harm; the message reports resolution only.

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Context

Background

Lehigh University HawkWatch notification series via AppArmor CAP archive.
Analysis

Key Findings

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Outcome
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Campus Alert Archive. "Lehigh University: Fire alarm in Sherman-Fairchild Physics has been cleared." Incident of July 8, 2025. Added July 2026; last updated August 2026. https://campusalertarchive.com/case/lehigh-university-fire-alarm-in-sherman-fairchild-physics-cleared-2025-07-08/

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