Today we had what can only be described as a major failure with our drill. It wasn’t anything that the staff or students did wrong. After the principal made the announcement to tell us we were starting the drill, he pressed the alarm button. Unfortunately, the Siemens dealers messed up the programming for it at some point in the last year when they were making system adjustments, and they changed the lockdown button to trigger the fire message. The strobes did not activate, though. This caused a lot of confusion. I really hope they fix this soon. If the fire alarm goes off again, people aren’t going to know what to do.
What are the A/Vs? Too bad the dealers wired it up wronf
I don’t think it’s wired wrong, as it worked properly last year. I think the Siemens dealer messed up something in the programming of the system when they were changing detector sensitivities a few months ago. I don’t know anything about Siemens programming, but I’m thinking that they accidentally changed the file for the voice message that is activated when that addressable point for the lockdown push station goes into alarm. I really hope they fix it soon. I’d honestly say that, in an emergency situation, no alarm is better than the wrong alarm.
Here is the system:
Were still out of school, been for 2 weeks!!
From the snow??? We didn’t get any, but the most we’ve ever been out from a big snow storm was 4 days. We usually get a lot of snow, but I guess it went to you guys this year.
I used to live in the midwest where we wouldn’t bat an eye to snow. Since moving further south where snow is far less common, I’ve come to learn that it can really shut things down. Where I live now, most municipalities besides larger cities do not have snow plows, but the state or some counties do. Salt is also a rarity around here.
For this reason, when snow and ice storms come through, the time it takes to clear the roadways is much longer. In many cases I’ve seen the overwhelming majority of snow and ice melt from exposure to the sun before a plow ever comes by, but then there’s the complication of shady spots which don’t melt, or temperatures drop cold enough overnight to re-freeze by the morning, making conditions dangerous again by morning.
This is a long winded way of me saying: Yes the issue is likely snow. This year we’ve seen states that see very little snow get a couple good sized storms back to back, resulting in extensive closures. Kind of crazy!
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Well, were back, been out for 2 weeks, my county school district is still closed. roads look clear, still patchy. my driveway is ALL ice.
It all turned into black ice, i broke my arm because of it.
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