Fire Alarm

A mini one-night documentary about the worst case scenario of defective fire alarms in my college dormatory.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Fire
• Alarm
• Firealarm
• Calarts
• Dorm
• College
• Shinakari

[ps60k]

2:51 - "I don't know if we [...???] start destroying the fire alarm. We don't even use those, do we?"

Dumbest remark ever made. Gee, how often do you have fires in your building? How do you justify defeating a fire alarm because you 'never use it'?

Instead of defeating the alarm, how about call campus police, or the fire dept? Defective fire alarms are dangerous!

What college is this? It amazes me that college students would do something this dumb.

[shinakari]

Speaking of dumb.... it was a joke, doofus! Clearly, somebody needs to get a life.... and a new funny bone.

[bowlingstar52]

how did the spoon get stuck on the ceiling? lol.:)

[shinakari]

By pure brute strength. :P

[christopher785]

why did the fire alarms keep going? was it mechanical problems or some person pulling it for fun?

[shinakari]

I'm 99% sure it was technical problems... but I wouldn't be surprised if someone pulled one during the time.

[jk09345568]

It's like having a very sick baby.

[jk09345568]

I would have called someone.

[ItsJustJasmine]

ours went off in my dorm last night... at like 2:30am and it was freezing out.. and i didnt even take a blanket or jacket because i was like half asleep.

Our alarm sounds like a nuclear war alarm or something and it has this robotic voice that says do not take the elevator and stuff like that.. it was so much fun *sarcasm*

[agentz100]

lol we dont use theese thingsLOL!

[MrWill1985]

To me this should be reported to college management so they can call the technicians to come service the alarms. I can tell this is an old system since its steel bells and most buildings now days have either chime strobes. Horn strobes or speaker strobes and not bells. I think that building needs an entirely new fire alarm system. Or at least a new controller. This happened many times at my high school and I believe the panel had some adjustments done to it as its different now then it was then.

[MrWill1985]

To me this should be reported to college management so they can call the technicians to come service the alarms. I can tell this is an old system since its steel bells and most buildings now days have either chime strobes. Horn strobes or speaker strobes and not bells.

[TssCman123]

@WheelockAlarms It was being rest, the system just kept going into alarm over and over.

[TssCman123]

You guys could have been expelled, fined, or have been in a lot of trouble for tampering fire safety equipment, that is so illegal. You guys used VERY GOOD team skills, and did not argue (unlike most humans). Standing in the cart is dangerous. Also, your building has TERRIBLE lighting. This could have been faulty sensors, a faulty control panel or annunciator, unpressurized sprinkler pipes, some weirdo pulling the fire alarm, or etc.

[TssCman123]

You guys could have just unscrewed and removed the bell from its mounting base. Pulling the alarm would have increased the alarm time, and fire and police officials would have arrived. Cutting the wires could start a fire, and disable some of the other bells in the building. Tying to silence the bell could have endangered you guys during a real fire. If it is still ringing, talk to building maintenance or whoever.