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by morpheuskafka 2688 days ago
Still a good reason for everyone to GTFO. Not worth breaking your neck over, but it's not good to put humans under the stress of a low-oxygen environment when they could be evacuated.
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> Not worth breaking your neck over

That's an important caveat, given how the danger was apparently greatly exaggerated.

If you've been told that the system will

> somehow suck all of the oxygen out, and if we were still inside we'd be dead

then what are you going to do in a real fire situation, when you're not in imminent danger but your escape route is blocked by flames? Better to brave the fire (or jump out a window) than submit to death by suffocation...