MIDDLETOWN — A fire alarm was set off at Middletown High School by Axe Body Spray, a fire official said Thursday afternoon.

The fire department responded to a call of a fire alarm by the gymnasium a little after 3 p.m. The call was cleared shortly thereafter, when crews on scene realized the body spray had set off the alarm. The call was deemed a “routine accidental” by dispatch.

“It was some kid in the locker room using body spray and it created a cloud of mist right underneath the sensor,” Fire Marshal Albert Santostefano said. “The mist could trip the fire alarm, steam from a shower could trip it. It looks like he used an overabundance, and they said it was Axe Body Spray.”

Santostefano said there are normally not regular fire alarms in the shower section of a locker room because of the steam, but heat sensors are used. In the dressing room area, however, regular fire detectors are used.

Axe is so gonna use this publicity

So not only does Axe attract women it attracts firefighters too.

*cough*

Yeah it makes great mice extermination

This kid must've literally used half the can in one shot for enough of a mist to have reached the smoke detector up in the ceiling.

Assuming that the school had periodic maintenance as required by code and it wasn't dirty to begin with...there aren't enough solid particles in Axe spray for a light mist of it to have tripped the detector.

So either he skipped the water and went for (what we used to call in High School) and "Italian shower" to mask his stench resulting in the detector getting DRENCHED...or he was goofing around and sprayed the detector with it directly.

PurpleJedi said:

This kid must've literally used half the can in one shot for enough of a mist to have reached the smoke detector up in the ceiling.

Assuming that the school had periodic maintenance as required by code and it wasn't dirty to begin with...there aren't enough solid particles in Axe spray for a light mist of it to have tripped the detector.

So either he skipped the water and went for (what we used to call in High School) and "Italian shower" to mask his stench resulting in the detector getting DRENCHED...or he was goofing around and sprayed the detector with it directly.

Knowing his ilk, he'd probably lit a match to see what it would do. You always see some kids wanting to set things on fire for no particular reason.