Second in my fire drill adventures... System is a EST Quick-Start in an elementary school. More drill footage to come! As I know many of you like it when I film these. FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER: / safetech0415
My high school was built in 2007 and they have est genesis in the classrooms strobe/ horn and in the BATHROOM. The outside hallways have est integrity.
This gives me vibes of when we had fire drills at my elementary school which had EST Genesis alarms like this school does. I just remember getting really scared and then screaming every time the alarms would go off but then I would get in trouble for screaming really loud during a drill. They wanted us to remain calm during the drill and not scream during the drill
I personally think voice evacuation should be required by law in all new construction schools, especially elementary schools. I don’t get why horn strobes are even still a thing in that environment. When I hear a horn strobe, I the loud noise can distract me from other important things, such as evacuating and being aware of my surroundings. (I’ve bumped into a few people.) When I hear a comparatively pleasant tone followed by an automatic message, I listen and follow directions. I’m no expert, but I’d assume children would likely be much more easy to control if there was no loud horn. You’re asked to be quiet in fire drills, but I personally found this to be an impossible task when I’ve just been startled by a loud noise.
My high school now has a EST 3 but they have voice evc. It replaced they old simplex system early this fall. Cuz they kept malfuntiong. They Simplex system they had two panels a old 4208 and a 4100. They had a mix of Simplex 4050 horns and simplex 4903 horn strobes. And some True Alerts. And i was like very surprise when they went for voice evc.
We had White EST Genesis Horn Strobes at my elementary school. The horns in the classrooms were shut off, but when we walked in the hallways it was LOUD because of the echo. They were also pretty painful to hear due to the high pitch. I'm in Middle School now and my school mainly uses EST Speaker Strobes, EST Genesis Horn Strobes as well, but the horns are shut off, and we also got a few Wheelock Strobes and Vertical Strobes Speakers (I don't know what company manufactured them). Thank you for sharing.
