Well, what were the odds? It happened again (sort of). I was eating lunch in the food court, and then the fire alarm goes off! I scramble to get out my camera and after I turn it on, I grab my lunch and get out (forgetting my book bag was under the table – oops).
Well, after we get outside, they tell us it was NOT a drill, and they don’t know what set it off, so we had to wait for the fire department to arrive and inspect the place. After finding out there’s no fire, they silence the alarm. The system, like all the rest on the campus, is programmed for “audible silence”, so the strobes were still flashing after the alarm stopped. However, wanting to get back to their lunch (not to mention the warm building) people start to make their way back in. But, the UPD officer on the scene forces them back out. Well, as it turns out, for some reason, they couldn’t get the system to reset (it was acting funny from the start – the “Alarm Silenced” LED was on, even though it was never silenced), so they decide to let everyone back in anyway.
They fiddled with it for the next 20-25 minutes, and they even set if off again briefly (they didn’t make us evacuate, though). After finally figuring out a smoke detector was the problem (it went bad), they were finally able to get the system to reset.
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June 27th, 2010 at 12:03 am
My high school had …
My high school had a planned fire drill one time (I was not notified of this one though). They let us back into the building but the alarm was still going for about 5 minutes afterward. I am not sure whether it was intentional or not. Luckily it was a Simplex 4100u voice evac system set to slow whoop.
June 27th, 2010 at 12:03 am
My bell at my …
My bell at my Elementrey school in like the 90’s was louder
June 27th, 2010 at 12:03 am
@TodaYouDie378 …
@TodaYouDie378 because they want to.
June 27th, 2010 at 12:03 am
Because he can and …
Because he can and he likes to.
June 27th, 2010 at 12:03 am
wtf why do you take …
wtf why do you take so many movies of fire alarms
June 27th, 2010 at 12:03 am
@weatherdan882002
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@weatherdan882002
okay.
June 27th, 2010 at 12:03 am
Read the …
Read the description…
June 27th, 2010 at 12:03 am
It was not a drill? …
It was not a drill? Was there a fire?
June 27th, 2010 at 12:03 am
you sound so …
you sound so excited, Fire! Fire!!
June 27th, 2010 at 12:03 am
lol at our school …
lol at our school if it goes off during lunch they make us take our lunch outside
June 27th, 2010 at 12:03 am
yes.
yes.
June 27th, 2010 at 12:03 am
Wow! Are thz …
Wow! Are thz Simplex 2901-9333’s
June 27th, 2010 at 12:03 am
ms 74 fire bell is …
ms 74 fire bell is much quieter
June 27th, 2010 at 12:03 am
Passing that bell …
Passing that bell on evacuation must have made your ears ring
June 27th, 2010 at 12:03 am
Thanks for the …
Thanks for the warning to turn down speakers, it was very considerate. Wish more people would do what you did.
June 27th, 2010 at 12:03 am
Oh. OK!
Oh. OK!
June 27th, 2010 at 12:03 am
Well that’s because …
Well that’s because my vids are shot in 320X240 format (that way the vid doesn’t appear to be “slow”, and of course YouTube stretches out the vid to a wider format, so it will be distorted a bit. The code I gave above is the best way to resolve the issue. It’s also only YouTube that does this as on every other site and as well as the origional files on my computer have very good quality.
June 27th, 2010 at 12:03 am
I tried it. But it …
I tried it. But it still looks a little fuzzy.
June 27th, 2010 at 12:03 am
I’ll try that!
I’ll try that!
June 27th, 2010 at 12:03 am
At the end of the …
At the end of the URL, add &fmt=18. That’ll make it more clearer. You can do that w/ all of my vids and it’ll work.
June 27th, 2010 at 12:03 am
That is really loud …
That is really loud. can you make that video more clear? I mean like it’s very hard to see.
June 27th, 2010 at 12:03 am
2/12 must just be a …
2/12 must just be a lucky day on the calendar. Yesterday the main building went off – 2 years to the day that this happened…
June 27th, 2010 at 12:03 am
Bells were common …
Bells were common here until the mid-late 90s. There’s quite a few buildings built in the mid 80s and early 90s that had horns though. I dunno why that was, maybe the size of the building required a different type of alarm due to the fire code, or it could’ve been completely up to the customer. Ask twoplyboy, he’d know.
June 27th, 2010 at 12:03 am
I haven’t heard …
I haven’t heard anything about prices, but these kinds of bells (electromagnetic) suck up a lot of power (.11A to be exact), and horns use up a LOT less, so that’s why you see those. Wheelock makes bells that only use .02A though, but I guess horns are still easier to work with.
June 27th, 2010 at 12:03 am
Now that is a FIRE …
Now that is a FIRE BELL! It really sucks that those are not too common for installation in the United States anymore – supposedly they cost a lot more to install. They don’t even hardly install real ”bells” in schools anymore… such a shame!