time to start sing hurry, hurry drive the fire truck
Today around 9:30 om MSNBC a Simplex Voice evac went off live at Politico. Its still going off as i type this!
I can’t remember exactly what Grey’s Anatomy episode it is (and ABC does not like Linux :evil: ) but there is one of the recent ones with the fire alarm getting pulled at Seattle Grace.
Young lady refuses to have surgery, and runs out of bed away from Meredith and her parents. She comes across a Edwards 270 SPO, then proceeds to pull it, triggering strobes and the hospital’s voice evacuation system “Evacuate Evacuate”
I also recall several episodes of ER where the fire alarm gets triggered, either due to someone pulling it or explosions or other disasters in the hospital.
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In Knight Rider, there is an episode with a fire alarm in it. Mike is trying to find a bad guy in a factory, so he pulls a fire alarm. He pulls a metal t-bar. Didn’t catch the brand, so many companies rebrand the metal t-bars. It sets off a bell in slow march time and a voice evac on the PA.
In Get Smart (2008) at 14:00 into the movie, slow whoop can be heard along with revolving red lights after CONTROL HQ was attacked.
Then at 27:48 when Max is in an airplane restroom, trying to fire darts to remove handcuffs (because he had rubbed a match against the sole of his shoe, making some passengers think he had a shoe bomb. An Air Marshall then attacked him and cuffed him.earlier)
one of the darts ricochets off of the toilet paper roll cover and knocks a Kidde smoke open. Then at 28:10 he fires another dart which careens off of a sink and hits an EJECT button in the unit, sending him plummeting out of the plane. Then Agent 99 goes into the restroom and sees the activated button, and we see that the smoke is a Kidde 0910. She then sees that Max’s parachute is still there, behind the mirror (obviously he couldn’t put it on with handcuffs on) so she puts hers on, removes the dart from the button, then pushes it herself.
Here’s a series of screen grabs:
National Treasure 2:
Realistic Error: American fire alarms are heard in the Buckingham Palace. A slow whoop and a horn in pulse.
Wow I must have missed that, that channels actually local. (RI)
Here’s two more:
The Alarmist: An Ademco keypad can be seen, and several unidentified alarm devices on display are visible, as well as a security system sounding at night (a crazy mix of a bell, a siren and a voice)
Panic Room: Multiple Radionics keypads can be seen, and the mom tries to program zones with one of them.
Indiana Jones: One of the best recordings of a Federal 1000T in Alert can be heard in the beginning, along with a few single-toned small sirens in Attack. For those who didnt see the movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnGuXXGgVq0&feature=related You can hear it at 0:34.
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Terminator 2
In the mental hospital, there are small bells on red boxes (the type of bell where the mechanism is below the bell itself). Then there are ceiling-mounted strobes (that can be seen flashing at 59:35 in the Extreme Edition), then at 01:01:22, one of the strobes can be seen from below. It’s a dual-gang strobe, with a White lens and FIRE printed on it The strobe plate is a brushed steel version. It’s also mounted on a rather large backbox.
Then at 01:47:37 Arnold fires an M79 grenade launcher at a locked door, triggering the Halon system, rotating blue lights, and a buzzer-style alarm in 30BPM March Time.
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A. In the Simpsons, Bart falls in love with Lovejoy’s daughter. On the outside she looks perfect, but on the inside she’s a troublemaker. She makes Bart hold hands, then jerks their hands up and pulls a tbar. There is a bell going off in the backround.
B. In the Office (season 3) while Jim is working at Stamford you can see Federal Signal’s newer alarms (IDK the model, but it’s in one of my youtube videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmn4NNxXdiM
It’s the alarm in the picture.)
Nick TV Fire Alarms:
In Ned’s Declassified, the school has MTs and Edwards “classic” pulls(?)
There is also that one house party episode where a smoke detector goes off. During the emergency preparedness episode, a bell goes off for a fire drill when the alarms are MTs!
In Zoey 101, somebody spilled a “germ” and they call some one…(I forgot what it’s called). Anyway, they tell them to evacuate the building, and by doing that they pull the fire alarm–an Edwards “classic.” In another episode, someones cell phone is causing the fire alarm to go off, and the outdoor fire alarm is just a rotating light.
In iCarly, Carly pulls the fire alarm to get detention.
In Fairly Odd Parents, a loose string from Timmy’s backpack winds around a tbar, pulling it.
In Jimmy Neutron, fire alarms and pulls can be seen in the school, (fire alarms are bells and I’m guessing the pulls are tbars.)
And that’s as much as I can remember, I will edit this post if I remember more.
Yes, the pulls are 270-SPOs. But I only saw one Wheelock MT, near the main entrance. And they had that large old-fashioned fire bell installed right in that classroom in the emergency drill episode. Another user reported that there were also some red Adaptabels around the school too. They could’ve at least added a 4-inch bell and Wheelock MT sound in the background. Maybe I could try that.
Many of these have already been discussed earlier in this topic.
BTW, I bet I can guess what the fire alarms were at Timmy’s school in “The Fairly Oddparents.” They were the same bells used for the class-change bells!
Yeah, most TV shows use bells for fire alarms.
I just saw Yes Man and it had some pull stations and at least one NA.
I don’t think I mentioned this yet…
I just recently got a DVD set of a 1980s animated series called “The Littles,” a Saturday morning cartoon by DiC Entertainment (the producers of “Inspector Gadget,” “Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats,” the early 1990s “Super Mario Bros.” cartoons, “Sabrina: The Animated Series,” and the American-produced “Sonic the Hedgehog” cartoons, among others) that originally premiered on ABC from 1983 to 1986. It is about a bunch of tiny people who have their own little civilization/society among the real-world people, and the only person who knows about their existence is a 12-year-old boy named Henry Bigg. It’s actually a pretty grown-up kind of cartoon series, it has dealt with subjects like people who are blind, the affects of drugs on people, alcoholism and a few others. There are three episodes I found featuring fire alarms in them:
“The Rats are Coming, The Rats are Coming!”
Near the end, the Littles have rounded up a bunch of rats in the gazebo in the center of town with a bunch of food crumbs (the rat swarms are due to a rainstorm), and so Grandpa Little has Dinky Little lasso a paper clip on a thread to catch onto the lever on a fire alarm city call box (it doesn’t resemble a Gamewell box or some other company’s, it is just a gray box with a red lever on the side), and all the Littles tug on the thread to pull the lever. Then it cuts to the fire station as a red light flashes and a bell sounds in continuous as the firefighters jump into their truck and drive to the gazebo (the fire chief says “I don’t see any fire… good lord, rats! Hundreds of them! Quick, get the nets!”) and they capture the rats.
“The Little Babysitters”
The Littles watch over human baby Oscar while Henry disobeys his parents and goes to play with his friends when he is supposed to watch the baby. The baby accidentally starts a fire, and it starts out small, so the Littles call the Little Fire Department to the rescue (the Little fire chief rings a small bell and it makes a noise like a fire alarm bell ringing in Continuous).
“Just a Little Drunk” (this is my favorite episode!)
Alcoholic movie star Kurt Corwin attempts to do a motorcycle jump over real molten lava (while no one else except Tom and Lucy Little are around), but he is drunk and it fails, and he is knocked out unconscious as a fire erupts in the sound stage due to the lava from the stunt. They rescue Kurt Corwin out of the studio right before a burning catwalk and stage lights collapses on him, and get out safely. Grandpa Little hears of what’s going on, and runs over to a fire alarm pull station. It looks like an upside-down T-bar pull with a glass pane over it. Grandpa smashes the glass with his walking stick, pushes in the lever and sets off the alarm, which is a bell in Continuous (unlike the last two which used a more cartoony-sounding bell, this one used a more realistic-sounding fire alarm bell). Then we fade to after the fire is put out, when the episode’s life lesson occurs (being drunk was the cause for the whole fire).
In The Game Plan, a TrueAlert Speaker/Strobe and a T-Bar can be be seen at the apartment building entrance.
The hotel in The Shining has unknown coded pulls and (probably) single stroke bells.
In Live Free or Die Hard, a slow whoop can be heard along with white strobes when the terrorists hack the FBI’s building system and trigger an anthrax alert.
Jewel of the Nile:
A Klaxon can be heard doing a code slower than Pulse at the scene when Joan, Jack and the Muslim good guy climb over the wall and run to the jet.