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You might say that this is scaremongering. I looked at what would happen with fire precautions. If you go into museums with extremely precious artefacts, you find that it is argon gas, not water, that is used to put out fires. The problem with argon gas is that it is 38% denser than air, so it sinks. If you release it to put out a fire, it will sink; if there are small children, it will be at their head level before the head level of the adults. I think that in museums which use argon gas you have one or two minutes to get out when the alarm goes, but I have a real concern about how you would get a lot of children and people with variable degrees of mobility out and up these staircases. They certainly could not go in lifts. What will happen when they all rush to get out? They would all be going into a communal area before getting outside. My concern relates to the learning centre.