Fire Alarm at West Virginia University Dormitory

Posted by admin on June 9th, 2010 and filed under fire alarm | 16 Comments »

I spent a week, July 28-Aug. 1, 2008, at West Virginia University in Morgantown working with teachers on the SATELLITES education program. I stayed in Stalnaker dormitory with the teachers and got a rude awakening at 2 am the first night when the fire alarms went off. There were a total of seven fire alarms at night during the week due to a malfunction of the system. I took this video during one of the fire alarms. The sound was ear splitting. The fire department had to come out each time. What is in the fire chief’s black bag that he carried with him each time he came to the dorm? That is the big question. We never found out.

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16 Responses

  1. MNsportsnut Says:

    Fire alarms in …
    Fire alarms in continuous are the most annoying.

  2. meteors6 Says:

    we have those in …
    we have those in our high school they make u jump when the go off

  3. BiteThis2007 Says:

    if I lived in a …
    if I lived in a dorm with a fire alarm like that, I would run a mile and kill myself… that is highly annoying!!!

  4. soopa9 Says:

    thats how my fire …
    thats how my fire alarms sounded when i went to elementary and mid. school

  5. trevordon1021 Says:

    It’s possible.
    It’s possible.

  6. rpc1998 Says:

    I think it was some …
    I think it was some keys or small tools. It was too small for a thermal imager.

  7. trevordon1021 Says:

    probably some tools …
    probably some tools and keys maybe a small manuel.

  8. hurricaneshaine Says:

    what was in the bag …
    what was in the bag was probally a thermal imaging system – used to pick up heat signals, in walls and stuff!

  9. lilmissglentoran Says:

    They had them in …
    They had them in Loxford Tower at MMU on the upper floors

  10. xthemwordx Says:

    i could not live in …
    i could not live in a dorm with that alarm. i would die. my dorm has simplex 4903s code-3. i hate loud noises so living in that place would drive me to sleep outside. but still, i do have an alarm write across from my door, yet somehow managed 2 sleep thru the second out of three times it went off this past tuesday. 3:45-7:45am in the cold and rain.

  11. nikkotg13 Says:

    those are wheelock …
    those are wheelock 7002ts

  12. cubsrule2040 Says:

    9838s i believe
    9838s i believe

  13. eli167349 Says:

    at :35 the strobe …
    at :35 the strobe flashed

  14. cubsrule2040 Says:

    Those probably …
    Those probably simplex 9838s

  15. smith2205 Says:

    simplex fire alarms
    simplex fire alarms

  16. technotoad Says:

    Wow, that is …
    Wow, that is definitely annoying! Glad you wern’t at a week-long teacher workshop and couldn’t get any sleep due to the repeated alarms at the dorms.

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