Deputy Fire Chief Gerald Reardon said there was "no question" fire alarms systems were working.
Officials had activated the alarms shortly after 11:30 a.m., Wrinn said, and began going door-to-door to make sure residents had evacuated the building.
"We found five to six people who said they heard the alarm but ignored it, which is obviously a problem," Wrinn said.
Reardon said it took several hours to search every room.
"We went through great pains to make sure that people who wouldn't come to the door got out," he said.
Peabody Terrace, located at the end of Banks Street, houses 1,300 graduate students, undergraduates, faculty and staff, many of whom had already left for intersession on Sunday.
Many residents had expressed anxiety Sunday about take-home exams they needed to finish but had left in apartments, and about exams scheduled for Monday.
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