Pulling the fire alarm for a fire drill at Potomac Hall

[sheiklink64]

some day i wana be chose to pull one for a fire drill.....

[PlausableApple4]

@sheiklink64 I think you can just ask and if they say yes you're good to go.

[schuminweb]

@PlausableApple4 Agreed. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Ask.

[thecooldude615]

great video

[elvisdarkred]

in my school we have the same fire alarm

[BobtheBuildertoyou]

While watching this, I put headphones with loud noise protection. 

[djkid9]

enat an AS its an NS the as has no strobe but the ns does!

[schuminweb]

@djkid9 Incorrect. The AS has a strobe. The AH is the horn-only equivalent of the AS. Then the horn-only equivalent of the NS is the NH. In both cases, you can tell that it's designed as a strobe appliance, as you can tell exactly where the strobe would normally be if it weren't a horn-only appliance.

[djkid9]

@schuminweb NH thats the one!

[pyro4869]

@schuminweb i heard there were fire alarms with ink in them and when you pull them they spray you is that true?

[schuminweb]

@pyro4869 Not entirely true. Yes, pull stations can be treated to leave evidence on the hand of a puller. They are not, however, automatically loaded like you're thinking. There is no provision for something like that in a pull station. The way they do it is they apply a small amount of dye from a syringe onto the handle, so that when a person touches the station, they've been marked.

[pyro4869]

@schuminweb my friend said there were that is the only reason i was asking ....thanks anyways.......Time To Pull Some Fire Alarms

[schuminweb]

@pyro4869 Behave yourself, now... :-)

[seniorjohnl]

@schuminweb I found that to be the case at highschool. It was actually in powder form and would stain your skin blue.

[bubblez920]

FAVIRATE..NO YOUR WRONG THOSE FUCKERS RUINED MY LIFE K THROUGH 9TH GRADE AND IM IN TENTH but they warn us before there activated

[whelenvortexr4]

I like the sound of the annunciator panel thing when the alarms are sounding

[KetchupAndMustard55]

Hello Mr Schumin, I was wondering if Potomac hall replaced the ASs or do they still have them, just curious

Mike

[schuminweb]

@KetchupAndMustard55 I would guess that Potomac Hall will have its original fire alarm system for a long time still to come. No reason to replace things yet.

[16kynewell]

When I was in Pre-K someone pulled the alarm... LOL

[MrTomato26]

I have that fire alarm at my school =D

[dieselducy]

woah this is an older video..

[erwanfirealarm1998]

Vous êtes à l'aéroport?

ARE YOU THE AIRPORT?

[schuminweb]

@erwanfirealarm1998 No - college dorm building.

[erwanfirealarm1998]

@schuminweb J'ai vu cet homme est un policier

[CaptainKN]

thats the SAME kind of fire alarm used at my school! But the pull stations r different

[schuminweb]

@CaptainKN Understandable - Cerberus Pyrotronics/Siemens never made its own notification appliances, and Wheelock specializes in notification appliances for fire and general signaling, and doesn't make panels. Seeing Wheelock notification appliances doesn't give any indication about who made the system, since Wheelock doesn't make any other part of the system. Looking at the pull stations is a better indicator of who made the system, though not always a sure-fire way to tell.

[CrazyAlarmDude]

@schuminweb Siemens UMMT?

[mmucougar]

Oh good, that guy's a police office, he's off the hook

[smirdeire]

Fun



[MultiRump]

oooooooohhhhhhhh they're gonna get in sooooooooo muuuuuuccccchhhhh trrrrrrrouuuuubbbbbbbbllllllll­llllleeeeeeeeeee!

[SmileyLieutenantDan]

That's a nifty fire alarm.... The one at my school is a metal circle, with a metal ball that hits it....

[Tabby266]

@SmileyLieutenantDan AKA a bell.

[TssCman123]

There was a little delay, lol.

[schuminweb]

@TssCman123 I believe that little delay is normal. This system is an intelligent system, and so presumably that delay is the time it takes for the system to attempt to auto-reset the device as a check against accidental activation. Generally, with intelligent systems, when a device activates, it first tries to auto-reset it as a guard against false positives. If it gets activated again, that's when the system actually goes into alarm and the strobes start flashing.

[TssCman123]

@schuminweb Oh, so like alarm verification? Cool.

[SecretService80]

@schuminweb "When a device activates, it first tries to auto-reset it as a guard against false positives. If it gets activated again, that's when the system actually goes into alarm and the strobes start flashing."

So, if it only gets pulled once, it will reset until it's pulled twice!?

[schuminweb]

@SecretService80 No. The system will first try to clear the pull station's input into the system. If it continues to get the signal from the pull station (i.e. because the handle is still down), it's going into alarm. The handle will not pop back up unless a human physically comes over and puts the handle back up. One pull will absolutely send the system into alarm, but the system still does its thing to guard against malfunctions and the like before deciding that the alarm is legitimate.

[SecretService80]

@schuminweb Oh, I see. Thanks.

[23shnarf]

Ew just hearing this reminds me of fire drill :(

[TERRELL465]

did the system ever go off for any real fires while you were there?

[schuminweb]

@TERRELL465 Yes and no. Yes, there was a real fire in someone's room once, but the alarm was pulled and the building evacuated (due to smoke) after the fire was completely extinguished.

[TERRELL465]

@schuminweb im sure those smoke detectors caused some false alarms as well.

[schuminweb]

@TERRELL465 During my time at Potomac Hall, the only malfunction was when an elevator pit detector malfunctioned and sent the system into alarm. All the other alarms were traceable to an external cause (i.e. pull station, steam in smoke head, extinguisher dust in smoke head, etc.).

[travelplus1]

Why did you hold the handle down for a couple of seconds? What if you did not hold it down and let it go right away?

[weatherdan882002]

@travelplus1 it still would have locked into place, he was just holding it until the alarm went off.

[mounsteres]

I wish i could do this.

[hyperbaricchicken101]

@mounsteres Agreed!

[schuminweb]

@Firealarmking52 Yes. The officer was watching off-camera while we did our thing.