Fire Alarm at Pentagon City Mall

The fire alarm went off at Pentagon City Mall in Arlington while I was down there on Sunday, April 26. The cause was due to smoke at Harry's Tap Room, one of the restaurants on the Metro level.

This video was taken from the Metro level, right about where Mr. Smoothie is located. Patrons generally did not evacuate the mall, and an applause erupted when the alarm was shut off.

The fire alarm signals at Pentagon City Mall are Edwards Genesis horns.

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[Gb755c]

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!

[schuminweb]

@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.

[MrWill1985]

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.

[schuminweb]

@MrWill1985 It was caused by minor smoke at Harry's Tap Room, a sit-down restaurant on the food court level.

[dea41396returns]

I filmed the elevators here too. The fire alarms were replaced w/ EST since this happened...

[schuminweb]

@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.

[inachu]

@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.

[MrWill1985]

@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.

[schuminweb]

@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.

[MrWill1985]

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.

[schuminweb]

@MrWill1985 As I understand it, the alarm panel at Pentagon City is in the security office down by the restrooms off the food court.