Hearing the fire alarm doesn’t make me jump if I don’t know its coming and I am in a classroom. I understand now that its the anticipation that makes me a bit nervous. The anticipation of anything I guess. Not it actually happening.
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Hearing the fire alarm doesn’t make me jump if I don’t know its coming and I am in a classroom. I understand now that its the anticipation that makes me a bit nervous. The anticipation of anything I guess. Not it actually happening.
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All the kids at my school were so unfazed by the fire alarms a couple months ago, I didn’t see a single person covering their ears. And yes, they were on high volume. Even some of the more special needs students were fine.
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I’ve never been afraid in the first place…
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I will admit I am still afraid of
drills
I was homeschooled, so I never had fire drills. I very rarely hear the fire alarms go off. Also, I watch fire alarm videos by @SER_Safety. So, in conclusion, I never have been and never will be afraid of fire alarms.
In middle school I could esilly predict when it was going to activated. Because of how high volume the Spectralert Classics are and my very sensitive hearing I still had to plug up my ears.
I have autism so all the nois really overwelms me
Honestly, I was kind of afraid of it until middle school because my middle school has a quiet voice evac system. I was especially scared of it in 5th grade because I was in a classroom with a horn/strobe in it instead of just a strobe or no device.
For me I was no longer afraid of it around 5th grade
Even tho I’m obsessed with them I have Igniterroremophobia “phobia of fire alarms” since I was in PRE SCHOOL and I still have it but it only triggers when I am alone in the hallway of a building or alone inside a bathroom I’m used not used to going into
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When I started doing more and more research into it.
I am still afraid of them to this day and I am a junior in high school. I have an IEP, so I would get accommodations to help me during fire drills. From third grade to eighth grade, I would get taken outside before fire drills. Then in eighth grade, I requested to stay inside, but still be notified of them in advance so i could gradually expose myself and get over my fear. In ninth and tenth grade, they did not have enough fire drills to get me exposed to them. This year, we got a new principal and they started doing fire drills every month. During my IEP meeting this year, I requested not to be told about them at all because I felt like being told would make me anxious about them te whole day. I apologize for bumping this topic.
Yes. I remember in elementary school I was afraid of loud fire alarms. It was never a problem until i got moved to the portables in 5th grade, where they had TrueAlert horn/strobes on continuous in the classrooms. I was always trembling at the thought of them going off when I was notified, but it wasn’t a big deal when I didn’t know it was coming. I don’t think I ever got over my fear, but I haven’t been exposed to loud fire alarms for 5 years because my middle school and high school both had systems of speaker/strobes.
Ouch - those truealert horn/strobes are undoubtedly the SImplex 4906-9127s, which would make your ears weep even when configured/programmed correctly. On steady with those is borderline health hazard, and a sign that something wasn’t done correctly. (in US they need to be temporal code 3.)
Yeah, my daycare/preschool was even worse, as they had both TrueAlerts and Wheelock NS horn/strobes on continuous and high volume.
Actually, the only temporal horn I’ve ever heard was in a demonstration from my local fire department. I think it’s changed in recent years, but I’m pretty sure my area required (or at least allowed) continuous horns up until just under 10 years ago.
I believe it became code in NFPA-72 in the mid-late 90s, but then of course existing systems aren’t required to change until something like major building renovations or fire alarm system replacement. So I suppose it makes sense that it could still be continuous horns…
Still seems like a bad idea though! Risk of hearing damage starts at 85dB (after several hours anyway) and those Simplex horns can go over 100. And at 100 if memory serves it can be dangerous within 30 minutes.