An update to this–that alarm sounds a lot like a Simplex mechanical horn, and goes off for a second time in the movie when the oxygen tanks malfunction and explode.
There’s a “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” episode from 1999 (episode 1745), where Mr. Rogers visits the Shaffner Elementary School. It is an actual elementary school located in Churchill, PA, and appears to have been built in the 1950s. As he enters, his friend Marilyn Barnett (the principal and a former physical education teacher) greets him, and Mr. Rogers notices two old-looking bells on the wall (a small 6-inch one and a larger 10-inch one, both are Standard Electric Time bells), and Ms. Barnett explains they are their fire alarm bells (only the 10-inch bell is the fire alarm, the 6-inch is obviously a regular school bell), and that they will be having a fire drill that day. At one point we can see a round Standard pull station in the cafeteria/gymnasium/auditorium room where the physical education class is. During the class, the 10-inch bells start clanging for the fire drill (60bpm single-stroke clangs, it sounds like they actually recorded the system going off) and Mr. Rogers evacuates with the class while Ms. Barnett says she will catch up. Once outside, you hear the 10-inch bells eventually stop as Ms. Barnett comes out with a walkie-talkie, saying into it that they can ring the all-clear bell, and then 6-inch vibrating bells can be heard ringing for ten seconds as the all-clear signal.
I can provide screencaps if anyone is interested (like I said, there’s a good shot of Ms. Barnett showing Mr. Rogers the bells on the wall.) Seeing as this episode was taped in 1999, I’m almost positive the school has since had that ancient fire alarm system replaced some point after that.
In a MADtv skit, a physiatrist pulls the fire alarm to escape from a “difficult” patient. You can hear bells in the background after he pulls it.
(Skip to around 2:55)
Man, you beat me to it! I was just about to post it! :lol:
Really? Wow… 
From “college humor”. Edwards 270-SPO is pulled at 2:19, setting off a bell and the building’s sprinklers. Of course, pulling a fire alarm in real life would not set off the building’s sprinkler system.
Unless it is clearly marked as an agent release.
Hotel Hell
The Juniper Hill Inn has a unique system; it consists of BG-6 pull stations, various heat and smoke detectors, and what appear to be either 7002 or 7002T horn/strobes.
Hotel Hell
The now-defunct Cambridge Hotel in New York state has AS horn/strobes, an annunciator in the main lobby, what appeared to be either one or two types of detectors, and possibly an NBG-1 pull station in the main lobby.
I mentioned way back on the old YaBB boards there was a smoke in a Dukes of Hazzard episode. Well I recorded several and found it! It’s called “The Fortune Tellers”, Season 6, Episode 22. In it, Boss Hogg throws a lit lighter into a drawer of his desk then closes it. It later starts to emit smoke, and finally Rosco notices and Boss opens the drawer, and smoke pours out. This triggers a SmokeScan 4002 smoke alarm, in the 5/6 pattern. Then it triggers the sprinkler (notice it’s not sprinklers, yes just the one sprinkler goes off).
Hotel Hell
The Keating Hotel features SpectrAlert classic horn/strobes (red in the lobby, misc. spots–white in the hallways leading to guest rooms), white SpectrAlert classic horns (guest rooms), BG-12LX pull stations, and a Fire-Lite/Notifier LCD-80 annunciator in the lobby.
Hotel Hell
The kitchen at the River Rock Inn has an old “panic button” on one of the walls. I am not sure if the panic button is used as a decorative item (it had a picture-like frame around it) or if it actually serves a purpose in some sort of alarm system. There were no other alarm devices I noted.
The Roosevelt Inn has some sort of pull station at various shots during the show. At first, I thought it was a SIGA-270, only to realize that it is a much older model, which I could not tell what it was since the pull appeared only during brief shots. I did not notice any other alarm devices.
In http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa-Xfm_rXmo this Chevy Certified commercial you’ll see an Integrity w/ outdoor backbox at the very beginning, then later on a burglar alarm bell box on the front of a building.
Here’s that Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood episode I mentioned with the school fire drill featuring an ancient Standard system with single-stroke bells on March Time. Sounds like they actually recorded the system going off for the show!
I was searching through the episode list for John Ratzenberger’s Made in America looking for the one on Remo drums when I came upon
S4E5 which features Honeywell Life Safety systems, so I downloaded it on iTunes. It has:
*SpectrAlert Classic Horn/Strobes and Strobes, (with SFX and a simulated strobe flash,) and both a white and red Advance horn strobe.
*BG-12s - a Honeywell-labeled unit, NBG12-LX’s in their packages, FCI-relabled models, a close up of an LX model going into alarm,
and blank models (i.e. models without any branding).
*Panels - Fire-Lite MS9200DLS (or 9600DLS), SK IntelliKnight 5820XL.
It primarily features Gamewell’s MasterBox, showing its history, parts and operation, then shows a wall with their IdentiFlex 602, 610, 650 panels
hooked up to a large group of SpectrAlerts and SD355 smokes.
John pulls a Honeywell BG-12, triggering the Spectras hooked up to a -602. The company’s president (as of 2007) silences the panel,
leaving the strobes flashing.
John then comments on how the strobes could be used as “training for young movie stars, training for the paparazzi, what it feels like
as you’re walking in to the movie opening”. The SFX people then add the SFX of a camera flashbulb pop right in time with the strobe’s flash (they’re all synchronized.)
After the break, John helps assemble some PCBs then shows panel’s cans going into the paint booth, then a 9x00DLS being put in to its box.
I just watched the pilot for Chicago Fire - NBC.com Chicago Fire which airs on NBC. It’s a pretty good show, and so far no actual alarms sounding, but there were alarms to be seen.
Their firehouse has Wheelock AS horn/strobes and I did see a blurred (in the background) T-Bar (probably an RSG-style). And for the fan “fans” a Lakewood P223 can be seen.
Also in the hospital at the end, there’s an EST 3 panel in the BG.
Week 2:
There are TrueAlerts in the firehouse, so the pull is probably an actual Simplex, and the AS is their 4903-9246 http://www.ebay.com/itm/SIMPLEX-4903-9246-ALARM-STROBE-NEVER-INSTALLED-/140249577172?pt=BI_Security_Fire_Protection&hash=item20a786b6d4
Also at the hospital there was an EST 202-series strobe, SIGA-PS smokes and 2 red squares above the 202. I’m assuming the squares were audible NAs.
Yesterday I was watching the Minnesota Gophers game and in the 4th Quarter the alarms at TCF Bank Stadium went off. They were Speaker/Strobes in Slow Whoop and the strobes were synchronized.
On the most recent episode of “The Looney Tunes Show,” Yosemite Sam’s smoke alarm kept beeping every second, and he kept trying to hit it with a baseball bat (he was ticked off that they took away his guns), and he whined that he hadn’t slept in three days because of it! Bugs then sardonically says that it just needs the battery replaced, and takes it out, and then Sam makes a big stink about telling Bugs not to replace the battery. And of course, not surprisingly, Yosemite Sam’s house catches fire and you know he’s in big trouble with no working smoke alarm!
The 12/19 episode of Chicago Fire finally had some alarmage: a Kidde PI9000, with 2 white LEDs behind each button, with the 5/6 sound dubbed in.
Later on there’s a Chevron pull in some type of jail or mental institution.