A scene during Becker. A patient gets bumped and ends up pulling a T-bar which activates what I think is a 10" bell. Note how the pull doesn’t stay in the down position, and the fact that in the eariler shot, that wall isn’t there…
the pull in the becker video is a simplex t bar with out the button.
In the new harald and Kumar there is a tbar pull station in Kumars bedroom at the start.
in Baby Mamma the Hospital has a Simplex 4001 system
In an episode of Friday Night Lights, Matt’s grandma leaves a cloth on the stove and sets off a detector in 5/6.
WARNING: Some strong language.
What is 5/6? My computer isn’t playing that very well.
Forgot to post about this a couple of days ago. I was watching the news a couple of nights ago and they brought up the fact that people were calling the news room to report flashing lights from the Cornign Tower in Albany. The news had a camera that faces the tower and that recorded what people were reporting and you saw TONS of out-of-sync strobes flashing all over the building. And of course, the news explained they were simply testing the fire alarm system, which passed without any hastles.
The unique thing is, I saw the same thing on the news a couple of years ago and back then, the strobes were all synced, yet when they showed the shot this time, they were way out of sync, flashing randomly all over the place. IDK…
SportsCenter reported tonight that the alarm at the Detroit hotel where the Penguins are staying for the Stanley Cup Finals went off this morning (presumably pulled by a Red Wings fan).
on an episode of Fresh Prince of Bellaire, (the one where at the beginning Will gets fired from his job at his school) there’s a 270-SPO in the background.
also, on George Lopez, there’s either a GX90 or a PA400R on the wall in their living room(look for a small red rectangle, you’ll see it).
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the 270-SPO on FPoB(Fresh Prince of Bellaire), later in the episode listed above, Carlton knocks on a door which Will is behind, and you can plainly see the 270-SPO for the rest of the scene until it goes to commercial.
Yes, and the 270-SPO is mounted WAY up high. Must’ve been a pre-ADA installation in the show’s continuity!
I’m surprised nobody mentioned the Family Guy episode with the “Fat Guy Strangler” (when Lois’s long lost brother comes to visit and he’s a fat guy killer due to a trauma involving Jackie Gleason/Ralph Krandem, and Peter sends him on a wild rampage when says “POW, right in the kisser!” over and over), and Peter says "Wow, that set him off more than a Paul Shaffer fire alarm. Then we cut to a typical Family Guy-style parody cutaway, where an electrical outlet sparks and ignites a curtain, and the smoke from the fire trips a smoke detector (I think it looked like a First Alert smoke) that does Paul Shaffer’s “HAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!” over and over and over again. I think Seth MacFarlane did the Paul Shaffer imitation, since it sounded a little like Peter and Quagmire combined.
Now why hasn’t Simplex programmed this as an alarm tone into their voice-evac panels? 
Maybe EST and Siemens could do it too? Then on the Siemens version, we’d hear Lois say “May I have your attention please?” followed by Peter saying “A fire emergency has been reported in…” and he’ll even do the bad grammar! :lol:
Now THAT would be very hilarious if there was a version that was made like that. LOL
Actually it was mentioned on the Alarms on TV/Movies topic back on the YaBB board.
Also in Drumline, a T-Bar can be seen at 00:03:52 in a subway ticket office.
I was watching Live With Regis and Kelly this morning. One of the segments they have is Spring Fling Trivia A-Gro-Go (title changes w/ the time of year). Anyway, they spin a wheel to determine the trip the contestant plays for. Well, although it’s not properly labeled, a spot on the wheel is a “wild card” and the contestant gets to play for any trip he or she wants. Well, today they landed on that spot, and as soon as they do, I hear http://www.dan.calvinet.com/Notifier_Slow_Whoop2.wav this. Mind you, this is the studio in that ABC studio in NYS that caught fire last year, and the Live set was affected as the fire broke out in the studio behind it. So, I hear this tone, (and yes, it sounded exactly as heard in the clip), see flashing lights and think “is the fire alarm going off?”, but no, it was just a sound effect…
Don’t know if this was mentioned on the previous thread, but in “Atomic Train” during scenes with a school and an office being evacuated, you hear some kind of bell in March Time.
In GTA IV in several buildings (I know of 2, a bank in the mission “3 Leaf Clover” and an apartment in “A Long Way to Fall” have pulls, that are, no not T-Bars, but Gamewell M46 Century (Full-Moon) stations!
Yes I’ve been gone this last week, my sister and family from Ohio came to visit, and her son brought his PS3 and a copy of GTA4 to play. We went to the Mall Of America on Monday, Tuesday we were going to go to the http://www.nationaleaglecenter.org/ National Eagle Center in Wabasha, but at the junction leading to Wabasha, my sister’s car broke down! (2001 Hyundai Accent GL, Driveshaft sensor failure) So they had to have it towed to Rochester. They (the dealer in Rochester) lent them a loaner and we did some shopping there, then came home. Wed. we just hung around, and my sister and her husband went back up to Rochester to pick up the car. Thursday we made it to the Eagle Center. They have a Notifier NFW2-100 system (http://www.notifier.com/products/datasheets/DN_7101.pdf) with SpectrAlert Advance horn/strobes and strobes (set to 15cd throughout).
In The Office, I’ve spotted a number of Edwards 270-SPO’s and Mircom Select-A-Horn/Strobes at the Stamford branch. In the Scranton branch, there are bells as heard in the episode “Fire Drill”, though I didn’t see any bells. It was probably just a sound effect.
They made the exact same mistake in the “Ned’s DeClassified School Survival Guide” episode “Emergency Drills” (my brother used to watch this show), in the halls you could see Wheelock MT-24-LSMs or EST Integrities, and the pulls were Edwards 270-SPOs. But when the fire alarm actually goes off, suddenly it’s a bell. The strobes didn’t even flash!
Using bells for fire alarms is ALWAYS unrealistic. In my city I never see bells for fire alarms, just horns or horn/strobes and sometimes speaker/strobes, but never bells.
Of course, in my area, I beg to differ - several places use bells and bell/strobes, especially schools.
I see bells all of the time where I live, though a lot of them have been replaced over the years with newer horn/strobes to be ADA compliant.
In my area, there are NEVER bells inside- the bells I see are outdoor and only for waterflow switches, and the occasional outdoor fire alarm bell.
Here’s the Arthur - D.W. All Fired Up! ep:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uUoWZTUq4Dc Part1
This one features the home’s smokes in 5/6. Second one sounds like the Code One in my grandma’s old apartment.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sddyG_ekJGg&feature=related Part 2
This one has the actual drill. 4050/120VAC Vibratone-sounding horns in 30 BPM March Time.
I always thought the alarms in D.W.'s preschool sounded like low-pitched Wheelock 34Ts or Simplex 4051s to me. I think it would’ve been funnier if they had a voice-evacuation fire alarm system, or one of the newer screeching horns.