RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Residents of First National Apartments remain without access to their units after a fire broke out Tuesday morning during its annual fire safety system testing.
Residents told 8News the fire alarms were going off as scheduled starting at 9 a.m. on Tuesday. Then, around 10:30 a.m., residents were told the alarms were no longer a drill.
“I was in my apartment,” said resident Madison Minvielle. “We had been getting emails the day before because they were testing the alarms in the sprinklers to just make sure that they were all working… So we’re ignoring the alarms going off, and then, it’s normally like a man’s voice on the speaker, and then a woman’s voice came on and said, ‘This is not part of the drill. You need to get out.'”…