Yikes. At least with Brockton MA's school district, they consider faulty or malfunctioning fire alarm systems a top priority, even though they still have some pretty old fire alarm systems still in use.
@@followerofchrist1961 It's possible there may be something wrong. I do also know several modern fire alarm systems are often set up with "audible silence", i.e. when the alarm system is silenced, the horns/bells/speakers stop sounding but the strobes continue to flash until the system is reset. The middle school near my old house was like that with their Simplex 4100U voice-evac system.
@@ZakWolf I reported this issue to the administration and it is one of two problems. One of the problems is that the system is not putting out enough amps to sound the horns throughout the building. The second problem is the fact that instead of using one of the pull stations to activate the alarm. They use the fire drill button. The issue is that when most fire alarm panels are installed they never program the fire drill button to activate all the alarms.
@@followerofchrist1961 Yeah, in most of my schools they'd use the fire drill switch, which would indeed be wired up/programmed, but at my first elementary school (which had a Simplex 4002 system at the time tied into the original Simplex 4208 panel) they would use the city disconnect switch in the main office and then activate a pull station (Simplex 4251-30) outside the main office and cafetorium area, but this was probably because despite the panels having a drill switch on each, they were installed in an electrical room, so I assume once the school would be evacuated, then the firefighters and administrative staff would go to said electrical room to silence and reset the system (provided the pull station had also been reset.) They still do it this way, even though their only fire alarm panel is now a Simplex 4010 (replacing the 4002, the original 4208 remained intact but started failing nearly five years ago, so they gutted the 4208, wired everything into the 4010 and replaced all the old alarms with boring SpectrAlert Advances; this is a good example on how the school district at least considers faulty alarm systems a top priority on their agendas, as they got it fixed as quickly as possible.)
When my elementary school was first built in 2002 in California, They had National Time 411’s in all of the classrooms. On Very Slow March Time, But finally they replaced the fire alarms in 2014 when I arrived, On the first fire drill in 2014, they still had National Time 411’s still, but in December 2014, they changed to Wheelock AS Horn Strobes and Wheelock AH Remote Horns and Wheelock EHS Horn Strobes
My high school was built in 2002 and has Wheelock(rebranded as Gamewell) AS horn strobes, AH remote horns, RSS remote strobes, and in the agriculture wings(built in 2018), they have E70 and E90 speaker strobes and ET-1010 remote speakers. This is more like a 2002 system. And the new athletic training room and patient care classroom(expected to be completed by April 2022), will most likely have System Sensor L-Series speaker strobes and Wheelock ET-1010 remote speakers
Why has the system not been serviced regularly and monthly fire drills this happens to often in America it’s a discrase and putting people lives at risk. I live in the United Kingdom and reported a gent xenex 4 zone Conventional Fire panel at my two nieces nursery it had no power and not every device was working and some of the old devices where left before being replaced I reported it and when they had a half term holiday it was fixed and powered back up. I did it because of children go their and it’s dangerous also with the building being redesigned gent conventional heat detectors where left in the kitchen area which is now the baby room but at least they work so when it’s an emergency it will activate and save lives
We had a broken fire alarm system last spring in 2022 and when we came back from spring break we had it constintly go on and off and it scared the heck out of me and my friends because we have special needs.
We had a broken fire alarm system last spring in 2022 and when we came back from spring break we had it constintly go on and off and it scared the heck out of me and my friends because we have special needs.
