Library Fire Alarm & Fire Department Response

[futurealarms121]

I've never seen those speaker strobes, and i've seen lot of them to.

[joek0617]

my only criticism is that you really should work on holding the camera steady. otherwise, it's an excellent video

[myrealghostbusters]

i really liked this video.

[myrealghostbusters]

was there a fire, or just false alarm?

[msj191961]

I know you live in Illinois so do I. What library was this at and in what town. The Wheaton Public library has a 4100 or 4100U with white TrueAlert speaker/strobes.

[Gb755c]

Just wondering why did you change the video's title?

[tornadofreak1994]

@Gb755c i dont know. i felt like a shorter title was better

[MrDyson01]

@tornadofreak1994 when did the trucks get there?

[agentz100]

@MrDyson01 look at the time in the vid, thats when

[manny3549]

excellent video... perfect to train anyone. I wish the camera would have been more towards the people...but honestly, this is a brilliant idea. The quality is excellent. I appreciate your work!

[paul9511]

Are there sprinklers in this library ?

[tornadofreak1994]

@paul9511 yes

[paul9511]

@tornadofreak1994 Ok, and on the fire alarm control panel at 1:17, did you see the cause of the activation of the alarm (pull station, smoke detector, sprinkler flow switch...) ? Also you now you could break the glass and press the "ALARM ACK" button, then the "ALARM SILENCE" button, to shut up the alarm.

[tornadofreak1994]

@paul9511 i think i did but its been a year so i dont exactly remember, and lol yeah i could have done that... but 1. i dont want to get in trouble for it and 2. i dont want to pay for new glass.

[paul9511]

@tornadofreak1994 Ok, thanks for your response, but I have another question: When you re-entered the library, after the FD was gone (if you did do that, of course), did you see water (from the sprinklers) or smelt smoke ? Thank's you !

[tornadofreak1994]

@paul9511 nope. there was no sign of water or smoke. prob a faulty detector

[yoshi9891]

@paul9511 XXD

[Gb755c]

@paul9511 Breaking the glass would've allowed him to push the Alarm Acknowledge button but yeah I agree with him paying for glass and/or jail time are not my cups of tea lol

[tornadofreak1994]

@Gb755c hahahahaha yeah

[Gb755c]

I wonder why it kept false alarming?

[wileyk209zback]

They do that exact same message at the middle school near my house, except it is spoken by a female voice.

[Gb755c]

@wileyk209zback What alarm sound does the middle school use? That slow whoop is one of many that can be chosen.

[wileyk209zback]

@Gb755c It does the Slow Whoop as well (4100U version). The panel is a Simplex 4100U voice-evacuation system with TrueAlert speaker/strobes.

[Gb755c]

@wileyk209zback One of the times it goes off you should try to get a recording of it for YouTube. would like to hear a female Simplex voice. don't hear them too often.

[wileyk209zback]

@Gb755c I already did; it's called "Simplex female voice-evac message"

[Gb755c]

@800kirby I would've have to say in about 3 minutes because My dad had that system where he worked and it does the slow whoop twice, then the voice evac message plays three times then goes into the whoop until the silence button is pushed and it was whooping before they exited and about a minute later the FD shows up.

[Gb755c]

Interesting speaker strobe never seen it before

[tornadofreak1994]

if anyone cares, its feb 20, 2011 11:59pm. i just heard over my scanner that this system has activated again lol. its false alarm tho

[msj191961]

Nice system! 4251-30s. Was there a fire?

[tornadofreak1994]

@msj191961 no... there was no fire

[TssCman123]

Who was that guy you were talking to? (don't say his name lol)

[tornadofreak1994]

@TssCman123 my father

[TssCman123]

@tornadofreak1994 Awesome. My father unfortunately could care less about fire alarms. lol

[paul9511]

the girl at 6:30 is verrrrrrrry beautiful

[TssCman123]

Wow, people were actually leaving! Like nobody leave when there is a fire alarm in buildings, but it depends on the building usually, lol.

For those of you who were wondering,,,this is not a computer, it is the Simplex Grinnell voice evacuation message, they do appear to be old, and it is included with the voice evacuation fire alarm control panel. If it was a computer, every other word be in a different tone than the previous.

Check out the reactions of the people eating in the background.

[tornadofreak1994]

@TssCman123 hehehe yeah i found it interesting that people left also

[armykiller96]

at eny fire response they will send etleast one ladder or more if its a big structure for this one only needed two

[phillies4100]

did some1 pull this alarm

[tornadofreak1994]

@phillies4100 well im not completely sure because i didnt stay through the entire emergency but i think so

[weatherdan882002]

was the alarm seen at 1:07 a speaker or a speaker/strobe?

[tornadofreak1994]

@weatherdan882002 its a speaker/strobe. the strobe was broken

[yoshi9891]

what was the emergency?

[tornadofreak1994]

@yoshi9891 false fire alarm

[yoshi9891]

@tornadofreak1994 ahh ok

[TERRELL465]

must be a huge liberay for a 4100

[tornadofreak1994]

@TERRELL465 it is

[tubemaster2703]

Doesn't sound like a computer to me. Sure it's a recording, but it doesn't sound like a computer.

[TERRELL465]

@tubemaster2703 the voice comes with the panel

[tubemaster2703]

@TERRELL465 I'm wondering if there's some guy somewhere who's job it is to record voices for panels such as this thing.

[TERRELL465]

@tubemaster2703 its a computer

[tubemaster2703]

@TERRELL465 I know, but what I'm trying to figure out is how it gets programmed into said computer.

[TERRELL465]

@tubemaster2703 not sure

[Gb755c]

@tubemaster2703 The simplex technicians can program them either at the factory or on site. A newest models of the voice panels can be programmed by connecting a USB cable to it and then to a computer that runs a special software program. 

[tubemaster2703]

@Gb755c So, if what you're telling me is right, there isn't someone somewhere who records the messages themselves and then they get programmed into the panels?

[tornadofreak1994]

@tubemaster2703 no, these messages have already been recorded. they have the option to record on location, but many choose not to.

[Gb755c]

@tubemaster2703 Yeah where my dad used to work they had an older panel with voice evac don't know the model but it played this same message and the same slow whoop and that panel was used in the late 80s or early 90s.  That could be when voice evacuation systems were in their infancy.

[Voyage400]

@tubemaster2703 This message was created I believe in the early 90's, and I don't think voice synths were even conceived back then, except for Apple Computers. This is definitely a real man's voice recording.

[tubemaster2703]

One question. Who actually does the voice for this thing? He seems quiet.

[tornadofreak1994]

@tubemaster2703 i think its a computerized voice. and yes the speaker strobes volume was quiet

[Gb755c]

@tubemaster2703 That is the standard Simplex male voice playing the standard 4100/4100u/4120 voice evacuation message. When the installers come in they set up the panel with the message that was ordered by the contractors. The voice is stored on a card that is in the panel along with the sound.

[wileyk209zback]

They have a couple of those break-glass pull stations seen at 0:36 at the elementary school I went to for kindergarten. It's an older Simplex 4208 system with a newer 4005 or 4010 panel tied into it.

[tornadofreak1994]

@wileyk209zback really? the building was just re done?

[wileyk209zback]

@tornadofreak1994 My school? No it wasn't; they had to replace a couple of the old pull stations cause they stopped working. They also have a few Edwards classic pulls, but the rest are old Simplex break-glass pulls. The signals are the old Simplex 4051+4050-80 horn/lights

[tornadofreak1994]

@wileyk209zback i ment the library

[wileyk209zback]

@tornadofreak1994 Simplex still makes the break-glass pulls.

[tornadofreak1994]

@wileyk209zback yes. i know.

[tornadofreak1994]

@weatherdan882002 there was 3 slow whoops then the message started

[weatherdan882002]

What was that buzzing noise at 0:15?

[tornadofreak1994]

@weatherdan882002 there were some horn strobes on the other side of the room

[Firealarm101]

what hapend

[tornadofreak1994]

@Firealarm101 someone was smokeing in the parking garage

[weatherdan882002]

@tornadofreak1994 very odd that there would be smoke detectors in a parking garage, unless someone thought it was real and pulled it...

[tornadofreak1994]

@weatherdan882002 yeah i know right. i thought it was weird also.

[tornadofreak1994]

@tornadofreak1994 also the parking garadge is under the building