UAlbany Fire Alarm - 2/12/07 (Campus Center Extension)

Well, what were the odds? It happened again (sort of). I was eating lunch in the food court, and then the fire alarm goes off! I scramble to get out my camera and after I turn it on, I grab my lunch and get out (forgetting my book bag was under the table - oops).

Well, after we get outside, they tell us it was NOT a drill, and they don't know what set it off, so we had to wait for the fire department to arrive and inspect the place. After finding out there's no fire, they silence the alarm. The system, like all the rest on the campus, is programmed for "audible silence", so the strobes were still flashing after the alarm stopped. However, wanting to get back to their lunch (not to mention the warm building) people start to make their way back in. But, the UPD officer on the scene forces them back out. Well, as it turns out, for some reason, they couldn't get the system to reset (it was acting funny from the start - the "Alarm Silenced" LED was on, even though it was never silenced), so they decide to let everyone back in anyway.

They fiddled with it for the next 20-25 minutes, and they even set if off again briefly (they didn't make us evacuate, though). After finally figuring out a smoke detector was the problem (it went bad), they were finally able to get the system to reset.

Category:

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Tags:

• UAlbany
• Fire
• Alarm
• Simplex
• 4100
• Annunciator
• Bell
• Strobe
• Flash
• Continuous
• Ringing
• Building
• Evacuation

[cindy1000000]

It was not a drill? Was there a fire?

[weatherdan882002]

Read the description...

[RaveSnoreThrong]

you sound so excited, Fire! Fire!!

[weatherdan882002]

@RaveSnoreThrong There WAS a real fire this past Friday!

[cindy1000000]

@weatherdan882002 How bad was it? :O

[weatherdan882002]

@cindy1000000 It was a small grease fire. No damage.

[SpecializedChild462]

and that's what i call bell hell

[WonderN123]

@int3ll3r0n oh, i didn't know that. neat. and also, it was in my middle school.

[int3ll3r0n]

@WonderN123 Nope, that red light is just the addressable module being "pinged" by the alarm panel.

[Caddl123]

here in our biggest shopping center we have two "Belltowers" with 2 bells on every side=makes 8 Bells-thes two are at the parking ground around the building. and in the center is one "little bell tower woth on on each side..

Its horrible if ou hear that at an alarm..

1km around you can hear the bells...

And at my home-vilage in a big factory these "belltowers" are too.There are 3 o them.you hear them louder that the fire siren ;)

I dont know others like these here in the county..

[WonderN123]

at my school, the alarm went off after lunch one day because a lot of steam rose in the kitchen...lol the fire alarms in my school are super sensitive...the pull stations flash a red light on them if you get close to them

[TheAwesomealex221]

Hah. My school is older so we have that kind of bell thing

[Noooo245]

OH NOES GET TO THE ROFLCOPTERS!!!

[DeadRaymanWalking]

The elementary school I attended from 2nd to 4th grade used to have those bells...as did the middle school I attended.

[hyperbaricchicken101]

Ow my ears!

[cindy1000000]

@weatherdan882002 Oh,ok.Thats good then.