Power Outage Causes Fire Alarms at a Gas Station 

There was a power outage at a Target I went to, but no fire alarms went off. When I left it smelled like an electrical burn.

I've never seen a gentex commander so weathered... great video!

Those alarms reminds me that they look abandoned and not used

Dude, I’m quite surprised to hear that was a false alarm if it was when the power outage in that building caused the alarm. I used to live in this one apartment complex where I dealt with a similar situation for not even a year on a regular basis. Basically, what happened was mostly in the middle of the night, the fire alarms in our building sounded because the staff claim it was a burst pipe in our old building’s parking garage levels. There were also plenty of other times people claim it happened due to some nearby college kids tampering with our building’s alarms, causing you to wake up because the horn strobes were blaring overnight. This was all because there were too many fire alarms in the actual apartments, and thus I moved out earlier this year. But all false alarms aside, these videos you do fire safety and safety in general are the absolute bomb! Keep up the hard work, man.

1:09 that fire alarm is yellowed pretty bad.

That’s kind of rare and I never seen a outdoor gentex that has been weather so hard

pretty cool to see a metal pull station outside, although that gentex WGE Is very yellowed, Im glad you did the right thing!!

Something similar happened to me at school once. The power went out and about 3 mins. into it, the fire alarms started going off. Everybody figured it was from the power outage but its also possible some kids took advantage of the power outage to pull the alarm as a prank but nobody ever found out what caused it

There were 2 occasions in 4th grade when the power went out and a random emergency function turned on, 1 near the start of the year the power slightly flickered, we ignored it because the building is 60 yrs old, then the lights go out some turn back on but most still off the AC turned off the tv turned to static and the emergency escape light powered on

The system must have an emergency light as an initiating device.

I never had seen a gentex horn before I like that alarm

Keep up the awesome content! :)

Can you do more of this type of video where alarms go off during power outages or go off randomly IG pls?

My middle school used to have issues like that 24/7 you couldn't get through finals without the alarm going off at least once!! It was always the same excuse too oh yeah a pipe exploded in the gym (I happened to be in the gym once when it happened but in reality the power just went out and then a minute later the alarm went off) but yeah that was fun

This happened at school in 2012. The power went out, the shortly after it came back on, the lights flickered a bit, then the fire alarm went off. We thought it was real the first time around. Basically we ended up ignoring it because it was clearly a malfunction

In my experience, this is typically due to a faulty detection device. In my experience, I have only seen one pull station cause false alarms from power issues, and this was an addressable Notifier NBG12LX. This is likely a detector which briefly triggers a NAC upon receiving a power surge when the booster panel or FACP switches from battery to main.

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Nice video!

Amazing video

Very interesting! I’ve never seen this before

Wow power outage ? That’s cool

This sounds like the exact same system that my work has. The outside cover for the fire alarms has faded as well. Ours is linked to send the fire department because our system works in a nursing home

I loved your channel as a kid and still do… Uh… oh god… not the very young me! *PAPER FIRE PULL STATION AND STROBE ALARMS INTENSIFY*

Cant you use a polish on the gentex outside to remove the oxidation

That really cool

I was wondering if you could test out those no name $14 horn strobes on eBay. The ones that just say FIRE at the top in Times New Roman. I am curious on how bad they could be. Or who knows maybe they are decent for a hobby board.

Cool video that outdoor Alarm needs to be replaced 🤢

Cool Video!

Loved it

this video is my favorite

Dang that alarm is so weathered

That looks cool! I want it…

I don't think having an outdoor pull station is the best idea. Sure, it'd be a quick way to alert the people that a gas tank is boutta explode or there's a fire outside, but what if some kids come up and pull it as a prank when the station and convenience store are closed? See, not a good idea!

Never seen a Monaco Enterprises, Inc. M-Series panel before. Thoes systems are for U.S Government Installations

lmfao that is one seriously sun burned gentex commander 3 or 4 in the thumbnail

Looks like I hear Gentex Commander 3s

Hey I have a vista 20p alarm system but I can't find out how to wire it do you think you could help?

This is my favorite 😍 video

Remember that school fire alarm test what model was the alarm?

1:09 i literally screamed EWWWWWW

From the look of the panel it looked as though the building had voice evacuation I thought I saw a mic in the one panel.

Good lord, how is that gentex so loud?! Did that not hurt your ears? It was really loud even when you weren’t close to the building.

I saw a video of a hotel having power issues and the spectralert classics were clicking and beeping

Do you think you will open up the ebay store again?

Loved da video

that was interesting, just randomly go off, i know he said that is was sensitive BUT STILL WEIRD! i woke up like 5 mins ago and i didn't see my stove blinking... where are you when this happened?

ik a guy who burnt sausages and set the school firearm off school called the station to tell them not to come then after i finished school a builder hit a BGA with a 2×4 and set the alarm off not they were seperate schools but sausages one was where i was doing a course bga one was my actual school note in the bga case the firedept has to come to reset it and insert new piece of material

Alarms are loud beatiful things

Today the fire alarm went off in Kroger and it was a gentext commander 3 with a green strobe

What that means?

There are Gentex Commander 3s at my school!

That hat happend at my school the power went off and a hour later it went off I also heard the panel beeping

Yeah at my school we had a transformer BLOW UP while we were in school the power went out than back on we had to go early but it well be a while the bus came soo I waited and waited but I got thirsty so I asked if I could go in and at first they said no but than they said yes than I went inside and had a drink but I noticed the fire alarm panel was in trouble mode But the fire alarm panel was silenced so I just thought someone already knew it was having trouble and silenced it than people was taping putting caution tape around the transformer that blew up and than I just went with my day.

Bro that outside alarm was a gentexcomander 3 with out the lights and it look liked it is water damaged

How do power outages set off fire alarms? I’ve seen it happen before but I never understood how it happens.

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Gentex alarm I’m guessing the strobe was flashing it’s just the camera not picking it up

They should replace the Gentex WGE series because it's yellowed and we can't see the strobe

What fire alarm model os that

If i shall take a guess, someone probably was lazy and didn't change the backup batteries in 25 years, as happens with most stuff equipped with backup batteries.

The name of the fire alarm is gentex commander 2

What panel was at the beginning?

1:10 That is a GEH remote horn.

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is that pull station weatherproof?

S.E.R investigating the power outage of the gas station but something fr happened the FIRE ALARM WENT OFF!!! CALL FIRE DEPARTMENT

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Wow

isn’t that the commander 2 😮😮😮😮😮😮😅😅😅😅😅😅

that happend to me once

So much for no power meaning that it’s nice and quiet

WOW

Wow 0_0

Uh oh

Its at dominos pizza place.

Hi Hello

1:05

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Dude

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36th comment lol

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I know exactly what alarm that is. It is a weatherproof gentex commander 3 that is soooooooo weathered you can’t even see the strobe.

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A pull station should not be outside because someone could play with the pull station and turn on the fire alarm system as a prank. 🫵🧐