Refrigerant leak in Hans Rosling Center basement; area later cleared
AI-generated · every claim is source-linkedUW Alert reported a refrigerant leak in the basement of the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health and cleared the building 25 minutes later after Seattle Fire monitored air quality.
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How the first alert is built
To check this alert, SuperGrok Heavy 4.5 (an AI) read it in full 25 separate times, independently. Each read decided whether the message answers each of the six questions and gave a short reason. A final reviewer then weighed all 25 and wrote the plain-English verdict you see when you open a row. The score (for example 22/25) is how many reads agreed; the 25 individual reads are tucked underneath if you want to check them.
SFD is responding to a potential hazardous materials incident in the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health. Refrigerant reportedly leaking in basement. Anyone in the building follow SFD instructions and others please avoid the area. Updates at http://emergency.uw.edu/
Sourcepresent25/25
Final assessment
All 25 reads find Source present because SFD is named as the responding authority.
Who is sending the alert and who is responding. People act faster on a message from a clearly identifiable, credible sender, such as a named department, the police, or a branded alert system, than on an anonymous notice. A branded signature counts.
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- present: SFD is named as the responding agency, and updates are directed to emergency.uw.edu.
- present: SFD is named as the responding agency, and updates are directed to the UW emergency website.
- present: SFD is named as the responding authority, and the update URL identifies University of Washington emergency communications.
- present: SFD is named as the responding authority, and updates are pointed to emergency.uw.edu.
- present: SFD is named as the responding agency, and updates are pointed to emergency.uw.edu.
- present: SFD is named as the responding authority, and updates are directed to emergency.uw.edu.
- present: SFD is named as the responding agency, and updates point to emergency.uw.edu.
- present: SFD is named as the responding agency, which identifies the responding authority.
- present: SFD is named as the agency responding, which identifies the responding authority for the incident.
- present: SFD is named as the responding agency and updates are directed to emergency.uw.edu.
- present: SFD is named as the responding agency, and emergency.uw.edu identifies the university emergency channel.
- present: SFD is named as the responding agency, and updates are directed to emergency.uw.edu.
- present: SFD is named as the responding agency, and updates are directed to emergency.uw.edu.
- present: It identifies SFD as the responding agency and points to emergency.uw.edu for updates.
- present: SFD is identified as the responding agency, and updates are directed to emergency.uw.edu.
- present: SFD is named as the responding agency and emergency.uw.edu identifies the university channel.
- present: SFD is named as the agency responding to the incident, which identifies the responding authority.
- present: SFD is named as the responding agency, identifying the authority handling the incident.
- present: SFD is named as the responding agency, identifying the authority handling the incident.
- present: SFD is named as the responding agency, and the update link is emergency.uw.edu.
- present: SFD is named as the responding agency, and updates are directed to emergency.uw.edu.
- present: SFD is identified as the responding agency, which counts as a named authority like police or UCPD.
- present: SFD is named as the responding agency, and the update link is emergency.uw.edu.
- present: SFD is named as the responding agency, and updates are directed to emergency.uw.edu.
- present: SFD is named as the responding agency, and emergency.uw.edu identifies the university emergency channel.
Hazardpresent25/25
Final assessment
All 25 reads find Hazard present: a refrigerant leak and potential hazardous materials incident name a specific threat.
What the threat actually is. A complete warning names the specific danger, such as a shooter, a fire, a tornado, or a gas leak, rather than a vague emergency, because people decide what to do based on what they are facing.
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- present: It specifies a potential hazardous materials incident and a refrigerant leak, not a generic incident.
- present: It specifies a potential hazardous materials incident and a refrigerant leak, which names the threat.
- present: It names a potential hazardous materials incident and a refrigerant leak, which are specific threats.
- present: It names a potential hazardous materials incident and refrigerant leaking, specific hazmat and leak threats.
- present: It names a potential hazardous materials incident and a refrigerant leak in the basement.
- present: It names a potential hazardous materials incident and a refrigerant leak in the basement.
- present: It specifies a potential hazardous materials incident and a refrigerant leak, not a generic emergency.
- present: It names a potential hazardous materials incident and a refrigerant leak, both specific threats.
- present: The message specifies a potential hazardous materials incident and a refrigerant leak in the basement.
- present: It specifies a potential hazardous materials incident and a refrigerant leak.
- present: It specifies a potential hazardous materials incident and a refrigerant leak, which are concrete threats.
- present: It specifies a potential hazardous materials incident and a refrigerant leak in the basement.
- present: It specifies a potential hazardous materials incident and a refrigerant leak, not a generic emergency.
- present: It names a potential hazardous materials incident and a refrigerant leak, a specific hazmat threat.
- present: It names a potential hazardous materials incident and a refrigerant leak, which are specific threats.
- present: It specifies a potential hazardous materials incident and a refrigerant leak.
- present: It specifies a potential hazardous materials incident and refrigerant leaking, both concrete threats.
- present: It specifies a potential hazardous materials incident and a refrigerant leak, which are concrete threats.
- present: It specifies a potential hazardous materials incident and refrigerant leaking, a named hazmat threat.
- present: The threat is specified as a potential hazardous materials incident with refrigerant leaking.
- present: It identifies a potential hazardous materials incident and a refrigerant leak, a specific hazmat threat.
- present: It specifies a potential hazardous materials incident and a refrigerant leak, not a vague emergency.
- present: It names a potential hazardous materials incident and a refrigerant leak, both specific threats.
- present: It specifies a potential hazardous materials incident and a refrigerant leak, not a generic event.
- present: It specifies a potential hazardous materials incident and a refrigerant leak in the basement.
Locationpresent25/25
Final assessment
All 25 reads find Location present in the basement of the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health.
Where the threat is. Saying whether danger is in a specific building, a part of campus, or area-wide lets people judge their own proximity and choose a safe direction. Without a where, a warning is hard to act on precisely.
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- present: The site is the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, including the basement.
- present: The incident is in the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, including the basement.
- present: The place is the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, including the basement.
- present: The leak is in the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health basement, a named building and area.
- present: The place is the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, specifically the basement.
- present: The incident is in the basement of the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health.
- present: The place is the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, including the basement.
- present: The site is the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, with the leak in the basement.
- present: The site is the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, including the basement of that building.
- present: The incident is in the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, in the basement.
- present: The leak is in the basement of the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health.
- present: The site is the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, including the basement.
- present: The site is the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, including the basement.
- present: It places the incident in the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, in the basement.
- present: The place is the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, specifically the basement.
- present: The site is the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, including the basement.
- present: The leak is in the basement of the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health.
- present: The incident is in the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, in the basement.
- present: The site is the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, with the leak in the basement.
- present: The site is the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, including the basement.
- present: The leak is in the basement of the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health.
- present: The place is the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, including the basement.
- present: The site is the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, including the basement.
- present: The place is the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, including the basement.
- present: The incident is in the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, in the basement.
Guidancepresent25/25
Final assessment
All 25 reads find Guidance present: anyone in the building follow SFD instructions and others please avoid the area.
The protective action to take. A clear, specific instruction, such as shelter in place, evacuate, avoid the area, or run-hide-fight, drives faster and more correct protective behavior than describing the threat alone.
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- present: People in the building are told to follow SFD instructions, and others to avoid the area.
- present: People in the building are told to follow SFD instructions, and others are told to avoid the area.
- present: People in the building are told to follow SFD instructions, and others are told to avoid the area.
- present: Anyone in the building is told to follow SFD instructions and others to avoid the area, both protective actions.
- present: People in the building are told to follow SFD instructions and others to avoid the area.
- present: People in the building are told to follow SFD instructions and others to avoid the area.
- present: People in the building are told to follow SFD instructions, and others to avoid the area.
- present: People in the building are told to follow SFD instructions, and others to avoid the area.
- present: People inside are told to follow SFD instructions, and everyone else is told to avoid the area.
- present: People in the building are told to follow SFD instructions and others to avoid the area.
- present: Occupants are told to follow SFD instructions, and others are told to avoid the area.
- present: People inside are told to follow SFD instructions, and others are told to avoid the area.
- present: People in the building must follow SFD instructions, and others are told to avoid the area.
- present: People in the building are told to follow SFD instructions and others to avoid the area.
- present: People in the building are told to follow SFD instructions, and others are told to avoid the area.
- present: People in the building must follow SFD instructions and others should avoid the area.
- present: Anyone in the building is told to follow SFD instructions, and others are told to avoid the area.
- present: People in the building are told to follow SFD instructions, and others are told to avoid the area.
- present: Anyone in the building is told to follow SFD instructions, and others to avoid the area.
- present: People in the building are told to follow SFD instructions, and others to avoid the area.
- present: Anyone in the building is told to follow SFD instructions, and others are told to avoid the area.
- present: People in the building are told to follow SFD instructions, and others are told to avoid the area.
- present: People in the building are told to follow SFD instructions, and others to avoid the area.
- present: People in the building are told to follow SFD instructions, and others to avoid the area.
- present: People in the building are told to follow SFD instructions, and others are told to avoid the area.
Timeabsent0/25
Final assessment
All 25 reads find Time absent: no clock time, date, or recency cue such as now or ongoing appears.
When the message applies. A timestamp, the word now or immediately, or a phrase like until further notice tells the reader whether the danger is current and how quickly to act.
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- absent: There is no clock time, date, or recency word such as now, immediately, or ongoing.
- absent: There is no clock time, date, or recency cue such as now, immediately, or ongoing.
- absent: There is no clock time, date, or recency word such as now, immediately, or ongoing.
- absent: No clock time, date, or recency cue such as now, immediately, or ongoing appears.
- absent: No clock time, date, or recency word such as now, currently, or ongoing appears.
- absent: No clock time, date, or recency cue such as now or immediately appears.
- absent: No clock time, date, or recency word such as now or immediately is given.
- absent: No clock time, date, or recency cue such as now or immediately appears in the text.
- absent: No clock time, date, or recency cue such as now, immediately, or ongoing appears in the text.
- absent: No clock time, date, or recency word such as now or immediately is given.
- absent: No clock time, date, or recency word such as now, immediately, or ongoing appears.
- absent: No clock time, date, or recency cue such as now or immediately appears.
- absent: There is no clock time, date, or recency cue such as now, immediately, or ongoing.
- absent: No clock time, date, or recency word such as now or immediately appears.
- absent: No clock time, date, or recency word such as now or immediately appears.
- absent: No clock time, date, or recency word such as now or immediately appears.
- absent: No clock time, date, or recency cue such as now, immediately, or ongoing appears.
- absent: No clock time, date, or recency word such as now or immediately appears in the message.
- absent: No clock time, date, or recency cue such as now, immediately, or ongoing appears.
- absent: There is no clock time, date, or recency cue such as now, immediately, or ongoing.
- absent: No clock time, date, or recency word such as now, immediately, or ongoing appears.
- absent: There is no clock time, date, or recency word such as now, immediately, or currently.
- absent: No clock time, date, now, immediately, or other recency phrase appears in the text.
- absent: No clock time, date, or recency word such as now, immediately, or ongoing appears.
- absent: There is no clock time, date, or recency cue such as now, immediately, or ongoing.
Impactabsent0/25
Final assessment
All 25 reads find Impact absent: a refrigerant leak is named without a stated consequence or severity for people or property.
What the hazard could do to the people in its path. Beyond naming the threat, a complete warning conveys its potential consequences or severity, such as that a tornado can level buildings or that a leak could be explosive, so recipients grasp how much danger they are in. Research on warning message content finds that a concrete impact statement helps people personalize their risk and act sooner.
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- absent: Hazardous materials and a leak are named, but no consequence such as injury, toxicity, or danger is stated.
- absent: Hazardous materials and a refrigerant leak name the event but do not state injury, danger, or other harm.
- absent: Hazardous materials and a refrigerant leak name the threat but do not state injury, danger, or other consequences.
- absent: Hazardous materials and a refrigerant leak name the threat but do not state injury, explosion risk, or other consequences.
- absent: Hazardous materials and a leak are named, but no consequence such as injury or danger is stated.
- absent: Hazardous materials names the threat type but does not state injury, death, or other consequences.
- absent: Hazardous materials and a leak are named, but no outcome or severity such as injury or danger is stated.
- absent: A refrigerant leak is named, but no consequence or severity such as toxic or dangerous is stated.
- absent: Hazmat and a refrigerant leak are named, but no consequence such as toxic exposure or injury is stated.
- absent: Hazardous materials and refrigerant leak name the threat but do not state harm or severity to people.
- absent: Hazardous materials and a refrigerant leak name the threat but do not say it can injure, endanger, or otherwise harm anyone.
- absent: Naming a hazmat leak does not state consequences or severity such as dangerous or life threatening.
- absent: Hazardous materials and a refrigerant leak name the threat but do not state injury, danger, or other harm.
- absent: Naming a hazmat leak does not state consequences such as injury, danger, or life-threatening harm.
- absent: Naming a hazmat refrigerant leak does not by itself state consequences or severity for people or property.
- absent: Hazmat and refrigerant leak name the threat but do not state injury, danger, or other consequences.
- absent: Hazmat and a refrigerant leak are named without saying they could injure, endanger, or otherwise harm people.
- absent: Naming a hazmat leak does not state consequences such as injury, toxicity, or danger to people.
- absent: Hazardous materials names the threat but does not state consequences such as injury, toxicity, or danger.
- absent: Hazardous materials and a refrigerant leak name the hazard but do not say what harm it could cause.
- absent: Hazardous materials and refrigerant leak name the hazard but state no injury, danger, or other consequence.
- absent: Hazardous materials and a refrigerant leak name the threat but do not state harm, danger, or what it could do.
- absent: Hazardous materials and a leak name the threat but do not state injury, danger, or other consequences.
- absent: A leak and hazmat are named, but no consequence such as toxic, deadly, or injury risk is stated.
- absent: A refrigerant or hazmat leak is named, but the text does not say what it could do or how severe it is.
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Campus Alert Archive. "University of Washington: Refrigerant leak in Hans Rosling Center basement; area later cleared." Incident of September 16, 2026. Added September 2026. https://campusalertarchive.com/case/university-of-washington-hans-rosling-refrigerant-leak-2026-09-16/
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