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I don’t know if my school is just weird, but as soon as we know an alarm is false they just remove the detectors involved and reset the system, then call the FD so they don’t come. Usually the alarms are reset before the building is evacuated, however we still have to all arrive at our evacuation areas before the all clear. We’re usually back inside within 4 minutes of the alarm sounding.
@@FireAlarmDude5967 I mean I would, but I live in Iowa and they don’t care too much. My school is about 2700 students with all 3 buildings that make up our high school, and a singular smoke detector is easy to confirm false. Pull stations on the other hand they can’t reset the system until the fire department approves but they can silence it after the building is clear.
@@dale4231 I’m pretty sure for liability reasons only the fire department is allowed to determine whether or not an alarm can be silenced. It probably depends on the AHJ though.
I have a similar story with a similar ending. So one day i decided to put something in the microwave at school,(can't remember what) but someone told me to put it in for 2 minutes because i wasn't sure how long to put it in for. I really should have been smarter because the entire thing was engulfed in flames and there was alot of smoke. Surprisingly the alarms never went off but i do believe the microwave stopped working. Im kinda glad they didn't go off just cause they were spectralert advances. I know you've said they aren't very loud. But in a large space prone to echoes and just the fact that I have sensitive ears. Yeah im glad they didn't sound. Still thought id bring that up.
Similar thing happened at my school. A teacher cooked a bag of popcorn and then left it unattended. Moment I step out of 5th hour, BAM! Fire Alarms go off. The teacher had to carry the microwave outside 😅
This actually happened in my school last year. It was after school during a volleyball game and some girls decided to go into the teacher’s lounge and make popcorn in the microwave. They didn’t realize that they set it for 20 minutes instead of 2. Everyone who was at the game had to evacuate and it was raining outside. 😂 It’s a Simplex 4100U voice evac system. Usually when my school has a false alarm it’s from the cooking class because some genius decided it was a good idea to not put any vents in that room and have a smoke detector right outside of it.
Back when I was in elementary school, we had an autistic first grader pull a false fire alarm in the cafeteria and on the same week, the fire alarm went off a second time due to roof reconstruction. Also, during my freshman year of high school, we had someone who decided to burn a roll of toilet paper and it ended up setting the whole restroom on fire!
Someone tried to set my high school on fire during my senior or junior year during the short lunch we got before we went to the Vo-Tech for the second half of the school day. When I found out later that one of the students who went to V0-Tech at the same time I did was the one who started the fire, I was even more angry. That lunch was only 15-20 minutes, so I was totally screwed out of lunch that day. Had I gotten my hands on the little *(#@, I would have made them pay for my lunch for the next TWO WEEKS!. The person lit some papers and other flammable material under one of the stairwells, and even after they put it out, you could still see the damage to the floor.
This nice video is funny because of how similar this incident is to the one time in my senior year in 2019 of high school. It was the third period, and I was in second-year Spanish class. About ten minutes or so into the class, the fire alarm went off. The whole building evacuated, and we met up with our 5th-period teachers on the field. A few minutes passed, and we got the all-clear to go back inside; so we went back to our third period and continued class as normal. The cause of the alarm was that a custodian microwaved a hamburger WITH THE TIN FOIL WRAP STILL ON IT, lol, can't make this up. BTW, my high school system is an EST3 with G1R-HDVMs(Genesis H/S, Red, No Fire-Lettering) inside, Edwards 757-8A-T Integrities outside, SIGA-PS smokes, and SIGA-278 pull stations with stoppers.
yes a perfect pace tone of edwards system code 3 is all you need. i think you might need trilingual message or just english message. well you decide after the tone though.
Almost had one yesterday when someone “diverted” my volleyball serve and knocked the sti stopper off entirely, the cover broke off of the sounder and the sounder didn’t even go off what a fail
I swear i Just watched a microwave fire at a school leading to the alarm system activated, not too long ago. How much pain does your school need to go through? I mean, two alarms in only a couple of days? Sheesh.
@@FireAlarmDude5967 EST systems can be hit or miss. On one end my old elementary school’s EST2 worked perfect (and the EST2 is considered one of Edward’s worst systems) and on the other end my middle school’s EST3 system was hot garbage until recently when a competent Edwards specialist worked on it but even now it has begun to fall apart again and give a map fault on data card 1. Luckily it seems that most issues start with the service and installs as systems properly installed and serviced work great.
