Alarms on TV/Movies

On alot of newer nick shows, like true jackson, neds declassified, etc, there are certain scenes that horn strobes can be seen. Im not sure what they are though.

ā€œNed’s DeClassifiedā€ has some Wheelock MTs and red 6-inch Adaptabels scattered around the school, with 270-SPO pulls. In the ā€œEmergency Drillsā€ episode when they have a fire drill, the only alarm going off is a stereotypical old-style ā€œfire bellā€ located right in their classroom!

Back on page 26, Fire Alarm Fan posted about a special called ā€œFirefightersā€ that was on TLC, which featured a bunch of alarms. I found the YouTube vid for the part that has the alarms. Jump to 12:48.

Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTusHj_COqs&list=FLaJ5ESpfm5KBzv8FQBugMjg&index=7

Hey thanks for keeping an eye out!

No problem! I saw your post when I was searching recently, and with the mix of alarms and especially the buzzing smoke alarms, I just had to see it. We had Probe 202’s in my first house, where I lived from when I was 1 to when I was 7, and I haven’t heard them in person since then. Those things terrified me. Anyway, I figured I’d post the link.

In last night’s Simpsons episode, Principal Skinner needed a way to buy time for Bart to study before a standardized test he needs to save the school. Bart suggests he do one of his classic past-time pranks - pull the fire alarm! ā€œI’d do it, but everyone’s looking at me!ā€ So Skinner thinks about it, and then we get the angel/devil conscience bit. Angel Skinner says ā€œDon’t do it Seymour. Don’t break your own rules!ā€ The Devil conscience is his mother Agnes, whom says ā€œYou wimp!ā€ and pulls the alarm (once again, resembling a Simplex T-bar pull station), setting off the school bell sound AND the sprinkler system! It looks like their fire alarm and sprinkler systems need more repairs, but this IS an underfuded school we’re talking about! :mrgreen:

Funny thing about that, in The Simpsons: Hit & Run video game, when you pull the fire alarm in the school (which VERY CLOSELY resembles an actual Simplex T-bar), it will only latch for 6 seconds, and when it goes back up, the bell stops ringing! You can even pull it again, and the same thing will happen.

In ā€œUntold Stories of the ERā€ there’s often this 4100 cabinet with some sort of an annunciator.

The label on it says ā€œPPA ANNUNCIATORā€.

I did a little research on Google, and found a picture that Google had cached from Dan M’s College Fire Alarms page of an identical unit somewhere at UAlbany.

Also 10" bells can be seen throughout.

Maybe that annunciator has something to so with a nurse call system?

A viewer posted on one of my YouTube videos that there’s a smoke alarm in Encino Man (1992). So I looked it up on YouTube, and it’s a Probe 202, with a ā€œ180 BPM Marchtimeā€ (3 pulses/second) electromechanical horn sound.

In the YT vid, the alarm occurs at 24:03

On tonight’s ABC World News they had a report on the foiled shooting attempt at UCF, and showed police footage with SpectrAlert Classics in Temporal 3.

It also shows some form of BG-12. From what I can make out, I’m assuming it’s and NBG-12 with the Notifier Fire Systems label.

Breaking my own rule of bringing back topics lol…

Emergency! Special called The Steel Inferno…
19 story high rise with a fire. Some sort of graphic annunciator and a BG-6 pull station:

While watching the Boston Marathon explosion newscast, I’m pretty sure I heard code-3 AS’s in the background.

I’ve heard Siemens 900 Hz Code-3
EVAC on the scanner feeds. Prayers go out to all.

In Toy Story 3, while the toys are in the Caterpillar Room, right next to a door you can see an Edwards 270-SPO.

Bob’s Burgers: At Wagstaff School, there is a 4050-001T in the cafeteria.

I used to LOVE Bob’s Burgers. lol, Swagstaff.

Tv show castle bg10 in the background

Never heard of Castle, what network/channel?

On Good Luck Charlie, there is BG-10’s at the school, and EST dual action pulls (I don’t know the model number) basically everywhere.

If you have charter it’s channel 4