Every School in America Needs This 

That alarm is the most disturbing thing I've ever heard, it put the fear in intruder

this should be installed in the schools even inside the classrooms so they dont have to get outside the rooms

It's sad how they're actually really needed. The school I went to never actually had an intruder or anything in its entire lifetime I believe, with the only lockdowns being medical ones. I'm actually surprised cause I believe it was one of the largest in my region. However, Toronto is really close to me, and they aren't so lucky. High crime rate areas definitely need a system like this, whether it's the US, Canada, or any other country really.

At my school people pull the fire alarm wrongly like 2 times times a week so I think an intruder alarm would make that problem worse

that is the most terrifying sound anyone could possibly choose

My principal has a big red lockdown button beside her desk. Thank god she hasn’t used it yet 😢

Our school had three alarms Fire Tonado School out for Sat & sun

A lot of schools in my area have integrated such systems within the past 2 years. I know of an Elementary School (which I attended from Kindergarten to 2nd grade) has an STI push station in the front office that activates the PA system. There’s also several blue strobe lights on the exterior of the building that will flash when that system is set off. And for anyone who’s wondering about the fire alarm system there: it’s a Notifier NFS2-640 (replaced an AFP-400). It has Notifier BGX-101L pull stations (newer areas have NBG-12LX models) under stoppers. The smoke detectors are newer addressable Notifier detectors (they use to be Notifier branded addressable System Sensor 2424s). The alarms are Wheelock ET1010 speaker/strobes (very rare) though there some have been replaced by System Sensor SPSW Advances (there’s also an L Series speaker/strobe now). Some areas have Wheelock AS horn/strobes and RSS remote strobes that were put in back in the early 2000’s.

Ironically this is probably needed even more than fire alarm systems. Stuff like this seems to happen way more than fire emergencies, the latter of which are usually effectively controlled by sprinklers anyway

0:55 Octopus: WHAT THE HECK IS THAT SOUND?!

My school does something similar to this! The system is Simplex speaker strobes that play 500hz continuous for fire, separate voice messages for lockdowns and tornado warnings, and slow whoop for earthquakes. In all emergencies it also overrides the PA so it's quite audible. The only thing is it doesn't have any pull stations for other emergencies, just fire.

My school does lockdown drills over the PA system

This is a good idea. I do think they should also have the flashing lights (maybe a different color to differentiate the kind of emergency) in case there are Deaf or hard of hearing people in the building. ~:~

I agree 100 percent that all schools should have emergency notification systems for intrudars especially with all the mass shootings in schools that have taken place across the country. If there’s a way you could help to have people sign a patition to make into law these types of systems, that would be truly great, and more childrens’ lives can be saved from being shot by evil doers in this world. Keep the videos coming. I enjoy them very much.

It’s just truly sad how this is a thing that is needed in schools just as much as fire alarm

All the schools in Georgia use a company named CENTEGIX. It gives every staff a button that if they press it more than 7 times the whole building goes into lockdown. It calls the police and sends the location of the person who pressed the button. They install strobes and new locks. Also if you press it 3 times it’s sends the location to administration saying there is a medical emergency. It’s helpful just really scary that you might cause the building to go on lockdown. It has already happened twice at the high school a block down.

Mass notification system systems are actually required in schools nowadays. With alert strobes and LOCs in the vestibule or at the front desk. I’ve never seen one with those pull stations yet, but, I’m sure they exist. These systems are incredibly useful in todays world. Nice video!!!

I’ve never had to experience a real lockdown while I was in school-thank goodness-but we did have several “Hold-In-Places” (basically just staying in your current room until told otherwise-INCLUDING ignoring the bell if it rings) due to medical emergencies. Those weren’t too bad, though. And of course, we also had the usual fire drills. We DID do lockdown drills, however, and they were always initiated via a manual announcement over the PA. I was never lucky enough to witness one of these systems working in person, unfortunately. But despite the lack of a lockdown alarm system, my middle and high schools had other systems in place that worked just as well. They had automatic electronic locks that would engage as soon as the first bell rang, locking all the outside doors to anyone who doesn’t have an RFID badge. And the only way to get in without a badge was to ring the doorbell at the main entrance, which had a camera and an intercom that someone in the main office could use to see who’s at the door and have them verbally identify themselves. They also had what they call a “mantrap” at the main entrance, which consists of two sets of doors-one on the outside of the building and one inside, with a roughly eight foot gap between them. The inner doors were ALWAYS locked whenever those e-locks were engaged-no exceptions-while the outer ones could be unlocked via a badge or by the main office staff. On the side wall of the gap was the door to the main office, so while school was in session, the only way to enter the building was through the main office. Otherwise, you’d be stuck between the two sets of doors until someone found you. It was a very effective system, I must say!

That tone is still terrifying.

In Germany, this is a standard requirement in any school, even though we have one very little school shootings. Although it was luckily never used in my school, it's a good feeling to have one just in case. It is placed next to every fire alarm so you can find one really quick. (In comparison: In this year we had 1 school shooting while the USA had over 250 [according to the internet] )

Viewing from the UK I don't know if our schools have installed systems like this or not, but the very fact they're needed in the first place is the most frightening thing... 🔔🕵😨

On the last year of school last year we had a lockdown, thankfully it was a false alarm but I am very thankful to all the first responders that came to help

This needs to be in every building, not just schools.

My school where I graduated from has a system like that, but they’re white gentex commander 3s with blue strobes

I seriously get a smoke alarm under this 😂

Alertus is one of them. They are mostly seen in collages.

Great Video Man!!!!

Yeah I agree. BluePoint is definitely my favorite brand for police alarms. I’m thinking of getting in touch with some people in my school to have these installed

Thank you sir. With everything going on in the news right now, this video was needed

"The BOOT" needs to be standardized for lockdowns

My school just uses the PA for lockdowns (one drill done in my life), and for evacuating, three sequences of three bell and siren each (played at the same time, the bell for inside and the siren for outside, which was used for the change of classes before the PA was installed, where they play music (popular songs) instead of the bell to indicate start or end of periods). For normal period endings, it is just a long steady tone. Plus, they are manual bells operated by the entrance control.

I agree. The same thing we have fire alarms to alert people that there’s a fire so if we have police alarms to alert people that there’s armed intruder then more lives would be saved. The strobes for police alarms should be blue 🔵🔵🚔

It's really needed my school is huge, and needs an alarm for this

Schools definitely need this. Grat video!

These are more needed than fire alarms. Like maybe just integrate them as a central alarm for any disaster. Idk they need something.

Very good reasons! My schools never had one of these systems.

Yes!! I remember we had one pull in the main office at one of my schools ❤

We need those in EVERY SCHOOL.

My high school has a lockdown system and it's installed at all schools in the district. They have yellow STI push stations with a built in stopper and EST Genesis Alert ceiling mount strobes. When the STI stations are pushed, fire doors will close, the alert strobes active, and a audible alarm with a message through the schools PA system.

Where did you get the audio from? What website had all the fire alarm speaker strobe audios?

Mine has sti lockdown push stations. With what I could only assume is an outdoor blue strobe in the hallways.

My school has an sti lockdown button tied to the PA system and also when it’s pressed blue strobes flash on the outside and text messages are sent out

I'm glad you are doing this. I hate that this is even necessary.

Thats true America needs that

I’m in the UK so luckily we don’t have to worry about intruders often. It’s so sad that buildings such as schools have so many intruders in the US and other places. Especially since they enter with weaponry like guns that can harm from afar.I hope these get implemented into different buildings soon. ❤

Man took fight or flight way too seriously.

Could you go more in depth on what it takes to add this to an existing system? Looking into this for our schools.

They should really allow this at school so kids can know and it’s easier where we don’t have to use those announcements

My school has a button you press for a real lockdown. Teachers also have a mobile app where they can call a lockdown as well as class phones. All of those automatically call the police and nobody has to do any speaking. To top it off, the police station is 10 meters (not exaggerating) across the street to the school, can get in on their own, and multiple truancy officers that roam the school.

The alert tone the system makes is a bit odd, it's a kind of purring noise that reminds me of the sound people in Australia hear when they make a phone call.

There is one major flaw with this, you are alerting the intruder that you are aware of them. Schools use bells because they can convey much more information to the students while the intruder will just hear what to them is just a normal bell. My elementary school had many different bells for different situations, whatever message the school wanted to convey to the students could be conveyed to every student in seconds, while an intruder would only hear what sounds like a normal bell for school. If we needed to shelter in place there was one bell pattern, if we needed to run away from the school there was a different bell pattern, and if we needed to run into the school there was another bell pattern. There were several more, but those were the big ones.

My elementary school had a push to call the office button in every room which would turn on the rooms PA system into two way communication mode. Alot has been done at that school to insure that you must go through the main office to enter the building even after having to be buzzed in to enter the building which has always been the case. Now you need to be buzzed into the main building as well as the main office

My school district is currently building a new high school to replace the old one from 1957. It is supposed to open at the start of the 2024-25 school year and I hope it will have something like this. I’m almost certain that the FA system will be a Simplex 4100es voice evac system so maybe they could make use of that for intruder alerts. My school district’s method for alerting people of anything that is not a fire is using the PA system. I think that they should try to make updates to all of their schools.

This is a great idea tbh!!

Got a kick out of this with that star trek blue alert. Amazing

We have such alarms as part of the Voice Mass Notification system, (we actually do not have fire alarm pull stations anywhere other than the main office, but we have police pull stations in all the administrator offices, The SRO‘s office, and the security office. These call the police and initiate lockdown mode on the fire alarm panel and send the lockdown message

My school has a STI push station for lockdown in the main office

Absolutely dystopian that a school needs something like this due to the frequency of mass shootings

congrats on 80K subs

My school has a system like this, it activates the PA system instead of going through fire alarm speakers. However the one thing it does not have is a push and pull system

I am a middle school student in a Texas school system, and I can confirm that my district plasters these around all school entrances.

I live in france and these systems are in all schools (mostly middle and high schols) since like the early 2010 They even protected me back in 2019 in 5th grade

One of the middle schools my district just built has a notifier voice evac system with unlabeled L series speaker strobes, but unfortunately that and 2 other elementary schools are the only 3 in my district that have voice evac, hopefully the new high school they are building will have one. But mainly I was going to address that since these devices do not have lettering in that case you could probably use the strobe since the emergency could vary.

Yesterday, a cell phone exploded in my school and it was in the hallway right out where I was. I made a ton of smoke and set off the alarms. None of use knew where the smoke was coming from, so we thought there was a fire somewhere. We were in an Island Gym Building so we had one part and had to cover our mouths and go through the smoke to evacuate. I’m sure that smoke was extremely toxic, and had those alarms not gone off, some of us would’ve died.

That’s very cool! In fact we need this in the UK also!

I'm not going to lie, the sound this alarm makes needs to be remixed into a song.

they need this in every school in canada

lol the alarm at 1:02 sound like some sort of bossfight theme

My son wanted me to tell you that he loves fire alarms and loves watching your videos.

This is such a great idea

Would be a good idea to have a separate bracket like you showed with a light indicating where the station was pulled

It feel so weird that schools need this, in my country: Netherlands, i've never had this. the world is so messed up...

It’s sad that over there this is actually reality and people fear about being shot in school.

Many Schools in my area have buttons under the receptionist desks in elementary & middle schools. They activate a PA and supposedly contact the authorities.

Hey @SERSaftey I am going to build a fire alarm demonstration wall and I need your advice, what back boxes do you use on your demonstration boards

1:05 picturing hearing that deep alarm sound at my school gave me chills

that simplex voice module is chilling

I can't believe he made this crazy fire alarm panel system that shows leds for fire alarm, superadvisory, and apparentely trouble lol. 1:01 That must have took a lot of effort to make an alarm panel like that. Most alarm systems don't tell you whats wrong or they have false alarms. One time I thought my fire alarm was chirping when it actually was the carbon monoxide alarm needing to be replaced.

0:47 "Intruder Alert! A RED Spy is in the base!"

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As a current high schooler, it's dystopian to see this stuff. My current school has them and it's just an unfortunate reminder of American terrors. This certainly isn't a solution but as long as solutions aren't happening, these systems should absolutely be installed. I hope lockdown drills eventually become as obsolete as nuclear bomb drills.

bro that alarm is horrifying

We Do Need That

This noise for the lockdown alert kinda scares me does it scare anyone else?

That sound when it finishes saying lockdown is terrifying

Everyone talking about sad things but these are spitting beats!

This is a really good idea

These would absolutely get pulled constantly. Also can you not just call the cops and make an announcement?

My school had an entire system installed 2 years ago, we just had our second official Blue Point lockdown drill last week where these have a recorded voice message similar to how this sounded, we had to barricade the doors with tables and chairs, lock all doors, and do the casual turn off the lights and hide, and the school brings actual police officers to check to make sure each an every room or classroom is secure. The pre recorded voice messages is played over the PA speakers on repeat until the drill or threat is over. There are a few SpectrAlert Advances painted blue and are strobe only that will flash in certain rooms like the cafeteria, the Gym, weight training class, and outside. There's at least one or 2 strobes located near the office area and another one near the auditorium. The pull stations used a BG-12s and are also painted blue similar to the National Time pull station in this video, there are covers placed on every single pull station including the pulls that go to the fire alarm systems which mainly consists of Gentex Commander 2's and 3's all around the school which use National Time pull stations. Side Note: We also have a bomb and a drug sniffing dog that checks around the school everyday, we also got a new district officer who's taking the place over our old one. After the Oxford incident in 2021 which was about 46 minutes away from my High School or so which isn't super far away, we've had rare instances where people will make a false threat as a joke. We've only had 1 real false bomb threat that was hand written by sticky note by the art teacher of the middle school in my district whom Was my art teacher before High School. Last I heard she has since been put on house arrest on a $75,000 bond.

they should have this but only accessable for teachers and staff because my school likes to pull the fire alarm a lot

A blue fire alarm already exists, however it is for HAZMAT. A color like yellow is unused, I believe.

I went to Ragsdale High School in North Carolina, we had one of those in the main office but it had a note above it about to never, ever pull it.

"in one simple action".... the activates a two action pull station. That was kinda funny. Very satisfying THUD. But your right these kinds of systems should be in more buildings. The only problem and probably a reason they are not.. is miss use. Great video

Could you add a time delay to make it stop after a minute or 30 seconds with the panel need a modification or could it be something you could set.

Ngl by the time a person pulls the alarm the school would be aware

GENIOUS IDEA!

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I'd say have less tones because people in that situation need to be able to listen for footsteps ect. A strobe specific to lockdown would be essential for those hard of hearing also.

What shocks me is the fact that you cant just walk into any school. Here where a lot of random people just walked through our school mid school day cause they didnt wanna bother taking the longer way. Nobody ever raised an eyebrow if some random adult just walked through the school halls

Where I live we have a fire alarm in every school but not this and it needs to change.