The backyard waterfall I always wanted

Last night, a little after 11p, the fire alarms began to screech all throughout my apartment building, the Avalon (Avalon Bay Communities), waking all those who had settled into their warm, cozy beds as the blizzard of the decade rolled through town.
Pulling on boots and warm jackets over pajamas, my brother and I left our apartment first and headed directly for the stairs - only to be blocked by a wall of water crashing through the ceiling of the hallway, not twenty feet from our front door. We turned and exited through the other staircase with a stream of sleepy neighbours. Then, we all waited on the lobby for the firetrucks to arrive. All the while, fire alarms continued to whine incessantly against our eardrums. When the firemen finally arrived (it took an extra long time because of the snow-blocked streets), they didn't turn the alarms off right away, either. They had to first check the source of the problem - that leaky ceiling, though "leaky" seems like an understatement. It would be an hour before the blaring alarms were finally shut off, to which we all cheered :)

By the end of the night, the firemen had torn through the hallway ceiling and shut down the hallway lights in attempts to find the source of the leak. It was discovered that a fire sprinkler in a vacationing family's apartment had been set off due to high heat in the boiler room.

After such an upsetting event, you would hope we would never have to do this again. So it might surprise you to know that this same water damage happened last Christmas.
What failures and incompetences in Avalon Bay's infrastructure did not prevent this catastrophe are unclear to me.  However, a fire alarm that went off without a fire seems completely counterintuitive. And having been disrupted by these faulty fire alarms three times prior this year plus last year's Christmas alarms, I would LOVE to see them fixed properly once and for all! Further disruption for such a trivial thing would be extremely irresponsible on the part of Avalon Bay.

Hoping you are all safe in your homes too
xxo, S