Alarms on TV/Movies

They did lol. They don’t really need to rig up an entire system because the system isn’t the focus of the video, the focus is to not pull the fire alarm when there isn’t an emergency.

I think this counts. Captured it in an advertisement for a show called “Fraiser.” I am not watching this show but found an MS-4.

I know its not, but this kinda looks like AI

Good eye! It looks like there’s some kind of vintage annunciator (or maybe even full-blown panel!) below it too.

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I believe it’s an 891D. Emillio Melendez a.k.a. Classic AlarmTech would know about this.

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https://youtu.be/zcYohWKCAA8?si=LAtnuteNfbXv7p0e When Rafe sets off a sprinkler, with SpectrAlerts going off (strobes are visible at 0:54)

I mentioned that one some years back, but yeah: Middle School: The Worst Years Of My Life has one of the better & more realistic appearances by a fire alarm system in media.

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A little late but in an Episode of Monk, there is a Siemens MS-51.


It May not be an MS-51. But it looks a lot like one.

Sorry if it’s a bit blurry.

in Abbot Elementary Season 2 Episode 15 You can see a wheelock device going off in the classrooms there wheelock mt’s. on slow whoop.

I recently watch an episode of Justified, where the main character needs to clear out a bar so he pulls the pull station. And they got it right, some movies and shows want us to think that will release the sprinklers, so I was happy to see the correct sync’d strobes and temporal code-3 audibles. (which lasted for about 5 seconds. But I’ll let that slide.)

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Really? Well how about that: not every day a production gets the average fire alarm system right like that! (even if like you said it supposedly eventually stopped sounding on its own which is of course what actual systems do not do)

Should system test be counted? (Joking) :smirk:

Ok, cool. In the Dhar Mann Series, where Mike Pulls The fire alarm, the sound is an EST Edwards Integrity.