Talking Fire Alarm

Many people have never heard of a talking fire alarm, so I believe it's important to put this on the internet.
Disclaimer: No one involved in the making of this video, including the owner of the video, and anybody in the building pulled the alarm in recreating a false alarm.
I just took this chance to videotape.
It looks like I added an Old Movies effect here and there, but I didn't. It was the other several alarms around the auditorium's walls bouncing their lights against the curving walls.
This building is the Frostproof Performance Arts Center and was built with this fire alarm system in 2007.
There was no real fire and no one got hurt.

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[abrady97]

What is the model of the Voice Evac Panel?

[CaptainSuzySparrow]

I do not know...

[Tabby266]

@CaptainSuzySparrow Wheelock SAFEPATH VECP.

[CaptainSuzySparrow]

@Tabby266 Oh, okay. =)

[rachrock3097]

The one at my old school spoke, but it said:

"This is the fire alarm. Please make your way to the nearest exit as soon as possible." repeatedly.

Apparently it also squirts water, but I never experienced it doing that.

[Gb755c]

@abrady97 Wheelock Safepath voice evacuation system the speaker/strobes are Wheelock E70's

[Gb755c]

@djkid9 Actually you'd be surprised there are people here on IUP's campus that haven't heard of that. Someone was complaining about how loud the fire alarms were in her dorm and I said "Tell me about it I'd rather have the ones that talk." and her reaction was "They have talking fire alarms?"

[bbygurl4lyfe08]

Lol , What if It Got Tired Of Saying That Then Said , GET THE F-_-k OUT NOW . !

[djkid9]

ALMOST everyones herd of voice evac.

[gallagher123123]

I love talking fire alarms. They have one in the lower school building at perkins school for the blind.

[Greg7042]

They have one of these systems at the International Exposition (IX) Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The only difference: it uses 4 loudspeakers and a strobe light mechanism hung from the ceiling. The entire mechanism is roughly the size of a car hood and it's 40 times louder than this! Thank you for posting this! The alarm went off during a car show there and scared the effin daylights out of me and I had to find out who made this alarm!

[TheKormyster]

Cool alarm it looks like a movie theater

[thevisualboy37]

@Gb755c Actually, I have learned a lot more about fire alarms since posting that comment.

But yes, you're right. Now I wish we had marchtime. It's actually a cool-sounding alarm.

[Gb755c]

@thevisualboy37 sounds like your school has a system with the panel set to continuous horn meaning it's one ong AHHHHHHHHHHHH. Non-voice evac systems can be set to sound the horns in different ways the 3 most common are continuous which is what you have, code-3 which is what this is sans the voice and marchtime which would be a buzz in a set number of beats per minute