EST Genesis horn/strobes set on continuous! Those things shred your ears bad enough when set on code-3 I can only imagine how much worse this must've been for you and the other patrons OUCH!
@Gb755c Actually, those were on Code-3. However, the horns were sounding out of sync by now. The alarm had been going off for a while when I made the video. Additionally, I was standing near the center of the mall, and so you had a lot of horns pointing at me. Plus this was a cell phone video, and so the quality was kinda poor to begin with.
I wonder why the fire alarm went off that day? Possibly someone pulled the fire alarm? Who knows. That could have been the situation at 30th St Station my last visit to Philadelphia in October.
Ever since DC performed gentrification all thugs of section 8 housing moved to MD and VA.
Thus killing the Pentagon City theme of hot uptown girls.... now its a ghetto place of thugs and computer hackers who meet there the first friday of every month at the eatery around 6pm-8pm CIA and FBI love to hang out there.
I think the reason the strobes werent seen in the video is it may be due to the type of camera used. I filmed a 30 second video with my cell phone of the fire alarm going off at the SEPTA concourse at Amtraks 30th Street station in Philadelphia and I did not see the strobes in my video but I did see them while I was there and the alarms were going off.
@MrWill1985 Actually, I believe most of the strobes are just plain out of view in this video. Most of the strobes at Pentagon City are on the walls, which are set back from the railings - sufficient to block the view of the strobes.
@schuminweb That was my situation with the fire alarms at the SEPTA concourse at 30th St Station. It wasnt long after my video of that I made a video of the fire alarms go off in the downstairs hallway where I work and the strobes appeared in that video but not the video of 30th St Stations SEPTA concourse.
Im off next week and intend to go to the DC Area June 6th and do plan to squeeze into Pentagon City Mall and I should be able to tell you which manufacturer makes the fire alarm system.
Hang on a sec... are you saying that the fire alarms were upgraded *again* since April? Pentagon City Mall originally had non-ADA-compliant Edwards horn/strobes. Those were big things, with strobe on bottom and horn on top. Then in 2003, they upgraded to Edwards Genesis horn/strobes. This video is of the Genesis horn/strobes (doing Code-3). Are you telling me that they pulled the Genesis signals out and replaced them again?
@dea41396returns Okay, I was over at Pentagon City Mall today. Same fire alarms as they've had since 2003, and I don't see any reason why they would replace these for at least another decade or so.
Do people not understand that an active fire alarm means that you should leave the building? I work in a major shopping mall in Massachusetts, and they do the same thing here: totally ignore the alarm.
Yeah, I may live in Arizona, but everytime I go out to the Washington DC area and the area surrounding it mainly Bethesda, Maryland and Arlington, Virginia, 90% of the alarms are Edwards and Cerberus Pyrotonicsc alarms and pulls if the alarms are one of those two brands like my Granpa's arpatment complex which has Simplex alarms which use to have Edwards pulls but know how Cerberus pulls
i live in bethesda and i don't think an alarm has ever gone off. ok i'm sure it has but i don't remember. i should actually look for those.
as to pentagon city, i think i'd rater be inside when the alarm goes off then when i was outside and a fighter jet flew over and there was a sonic boom. that scared the crap out of me.
You think fire alarms are a NEW interest of mine? Much to the contrary. Fire alarms have interested me since around first grade (1987), I'd say, and I have a Wheelock 7002T on my desk at work.
I've never seen fire alarm signals in any public areas of the system, and some of the older stations I've been to appear to not have any obvious fire alarm signals at all in the hallway leading to the restrooms, however, I have seen alarm junction boxes.
Stations built in the 1990s, from what I can tell, have Wheelock 34T horns in their back hallways. Morgan Boulevard has Edwards Genesis horns (same as in this clip).
Additionally, all station kiosks have Edwards 278B dual action pull stations.
EST Genesis horn/strobes set on continuous! Those things shred your ears bad enough when set on code-3 I can only imagine how much worse this must've been for you and the other patrons OUCH!
Gb755c 1 week ago
@Gb755c Actually, those were on Code-3. However, the horns were sounding out of sync by now. The alarm had been going off for a while when I made the video. Additionally, I was standing near the center of the mall, and so you had a lot of horns pointing at me. Plus this was a cell phone video, and so the quality was kinda poor to begin with.
schuminweb 1 week ago
I wonder why the fire alarm went off that day? Possibly someone pulled the fire alarm? Who knows. That could have been the situation at 30th St Station my last visit to Philadelphia in October.
MrWill1985 1 year ago
@MrWill1985 It was caused by minor smoke at Harry's Tap Room, a sit-down restaurant on the food court level.
schuminweb 1 year ago
@MrWill1985
Ever since DC performed gentrification all thugs of section 8 housing moved to MD and VA.
Thus killing the Pentagon City theme of hot uptown girls.... now its a ghetto place of thugs and computer hackers who meet there the first friday of every month at the eatery around 6pm-8pm CIA and FBI love to hang out there.
inachu 6 months ago
I think the reason the strobes werent seen in the video is it may be due to the type of camera used. I filmed a 30 second video with my cell phone of the fire alarm going off at the SEPTA concourse at Amtraks 30th Street station in Philadelphia and I did not see the strobes in my video but I did see them while I was there and the alarms were going off.
MrWill1985 1 year ago
@MrWill1985 Actually, I believe most of the strobes are just plain out of view in this video. Most of the strobes at Pentagon City are on the walls, which are set back from the railings - sufficient to block the view of the strobes.
schuminweb 1 year ago
@schuminweb That was my situation with the fire alarms at the SEPTA concourse at 30th St Station. It wasnt long after my video of that I made a video of the fire alarms go off in the downstairs hallway where I work and the strobes appeared in that video but not the video of 30th St Stations SEPTA concourse.
MrWill1985 1 year ago
Im off next week and intend to go to the DC Area June 6th and do plan to squeeze into Pentagon City Mall and I should be able to tell you which manufacturer makes the fire alarm system.
MrWill1985 1 year ago
@MrWill1985 As I understand it, the alarm panel at Pentagon City is in the security office down by the restrooms off the food court.
schuminweb 1 year ago
I filmed the elevators here too. The fire alarms were replaced w/ EST since this happened...
dea41396returns 2 years ago
Hang on a sec... are you saying that the fire alarms were upgraded *again* since April? Pentagon City Mall originally had non-ADA-compliant Edwards horn/strobes. Those were big things, with strobe on bottom and horn on top. Then in 2003, they upgraded to Edwards Genesis horn/strobes. This video is of the Genesis horn/strobes (doing Code-3). Are you telling me that they pulled the Genesis signals out and replaced them again?
schuminweb 2 years ago
from what is appeared, they were completely replaced w/ EST
dea41396returns 2 years ago
@dea41396returns Okay, I was over at Pentagon City Mall today. Same fire alarms as they've had since 2003, and I don't see any reason why they would replace these for at least another decade or so.
schuminweb 1 year ago
lol I remember this day i was there i think i was wearing a slipknot Tee
ZebbyRuu 2 years ago
Where is this mall?
jediskunk67 2 years ago
Arlington, Virginia. There's a direct entrance to the mall from the Pentagon City Metro station on the Blue and Yellow Lines on the Washington Metro.
schuminweb 2 years ago
I film elevators here. i have eaten at the tap romm to. LOL
elevatorman138 2 years ago
I've never been there - are they any good?
schuminweb 2 years ago
wow, the horns are way of sync
JTNortel 2 years ago
Do people not understand that an active fire alarm means that you should leave the building? I work in a major shopping mall in Massachusetts, and they do the same thing here: totally ignore the alarm.
KellyM3660 2 years ago
I work at Logan Airport... same thing there.
AutisticPsycho 2 years ago
The Washington DC area is very big on the Edwards and Cerberus Pyrotronics alarms.
eddieeddieeddie13 2 years ago
Yeah, I may live in Arizona, but everytime I go out to the Washington DC area and the area surrounding it mainly Bethesda, Maryland and Arlington, Virginia, 90% of the alarms are Edwards and Cerberus Pyrotonicsc alarms and pulls if the alarms are one of those two brands like my Granpa's arpatment complex which has Simplex alarms which use to have Edwards pulls but know how Cerberus pulls
zachray263 2 years ago
i live in bethesda and i don't think an alarm has ever gone off. ok i'm sure it has but i don't remember. i should actually look for those.
as to pentagon city, i think i'd rater be inside when the alarm goes off then when i was outside and a fighter jet flew over and there was a sonic boom. that scared the crap out of me.
xthemwordx 2 years ago
Yeah, it's pretty common not to evacuate in large public buildings, such as malls.
weatherdan882002 2 years ago
So you've learned all you can about Metro and are now moving on to fire alarms...
Also, I think your video needs to be honored as having the longest sustained most annoying sound EVER.
EnturbulatedCapitol 2 years ago
You think fire alarms are a NEW interest of mine? Much to the contrary. Fire alarms have interested me since around first grade (1987), I'd say, and I have a Wheelock 7002T on my desk at work.
schuminweb 2 years ago
So what kind of fire alarm is in use at Metro stations?
EnturbulatedCapitol 2 years ago
I've never seen fire alarm signals in any public areas of the system, and some of the older stations I've been to appear to not have any obvious fire alarm signals at all in the hallway leading to the restrooms, however, I have seen alarm junction boxes.
Stations built in the 1990s, from what I can tell, have Wheelock 34T horns in their back hallways. Morgan Boulevard has Edwards Genesis horns (same as in this clip).
Additionally, all station kiosks have Edwards 278B dual action pull stations.
schuminweb 2 years ago