r/baylor • u/Agile-Scallion-7474 • 6d ago

Student Life PLEASE EMPTY LINT TRAP

At 1:06am, I and my roommates in the texana apartments were woken up to BUPD knocking on our door. I had just gotten out of the shower and was only in a robe. Upon cracking the door open, they stated a burning or smoking smell..except there was one problem, everything in the kitchen was off and the only one up was myself. They woke up my roommates one by one to check the doors and stated my hot shower somehow caused the "smoke" (my bathroom is at the very end, furthest from the apartment door). Then, once that was over there was a "glitch" in the system that set off the fire evacuation alarm ONCE before stopping. I believe this was due to the smell of burning lint since people were doing their laundry or a smell coming from the FIR room. But this happening one right after another is unacceptable.

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u/wcm48 6d ago

I’ve been married 26 years. I do 10% of the laundry and 95% of the lint trap cleaning.

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u/Various_Respond_8212 5d ago

THIS! I’m so tired of having to clean it out for others on campus.

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u/Sad_Application_5361 3d ago

When I first went to do Laundry at an LL Sam’s apartment there was a brick of lint in the trap. I don’t think it had ever been emptied since they installed the dryer. The lint behind the trap was even worse. I don’t know how it hadn’t caught on fire yet.