Rep. Jamaal Bowman "should have known better" than to pull a fire alarm in Congress, according to Joy Farrow, a retired deputy sheriff with 28 years of experience.

Stone said a Burlington city ordinance penalizes a person using the fire alarm as a false alarm, but the $100 to $500 fine is in place primarily to deter alarms being used out of mischief.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) broke House ethics rules when he pulled a fire alarm as the lower chamber was rushing a vote to avoid a partial government shutdown last month, according to a conservative… ...

"There are instances that would allow for somebody to pull that fire alarm because of some other emergency," Stone said. He described an event from the spring where the department responded to a ...