Fire Drills, Severe Weather Drills, Lockdowns for the 2016-2017 School year

firefreak57 · December 20, 2016, 1:03am

wiley209:

Simplex 4051:

Part of the reason I’m glad I am never caught in fire alarms anymore because I don’t have to go outside in FREEZING New England weather.

Ouch, I had to today! The student center in my college had a small fire; someone burnt food in a microwave. So when I was in the library the alarms went off, and we all had to get our things and evacuate. It’s a good thing unlike public school fire alarm evacuations, here they insist we get all our stuff, so at least we were wearing our coats. I also got some video footage on my Smartphone of a few of the older alarms in action…

Yes, the first one in the video had the strobe not working, so I reported it to the campus police and to the fire department. I bet once I go back for the spring semester, it will have been replaced. Outside, I could also hear the SpectrAlert Advance horn/strobes in the renovated wings sounding on Code 3, while the old alarms were on Continuous.

Cool! I like those old alarms!