Just finished conducting a fire drill on a 4010. This is drill number 4 this year on this system, and then 13th campus-wide.
So there would have been 9 false alarms then?
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So there would have been 9 false alarms then?
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No, 9 other drills around the campus.
Then how are they not counted?
Different buildings i presume
Oh yeah then. That makes a lot more sense.
I don’t normally post on this topic for things other than fire drills, but of note is that my school has been in containment for two weeks now (a new record! yay! 
) with no end in sight following two especially gruesome fights the week before Christmas that resulted in hospitalization and arrests. Security has been on edge because of the threat of retaliation, and the administration decided that the best course of action was to just limit student’s ability to leave class. It’s pretty sucky because even though I did nothing I’m not allowed to leave class for any reason, even to use the restroom. Last I heard this could last a month or more, until the admins figure out what’s going on. Unsurprisingly this hasn’t been very popular with teachers or students, and really just makes the school day that much more stressful. For the record, if you’re caught out of class unaccompanied during a containment you get suspended.
(But don’t worry, should you need to use the bathroom or go anywhere during class, be prepared to wait 30 minutes or more for the next available security guard to escort you and babysit you while you do your business)
Jesus your school is rough…
I have to say that I have never had to deal with anything at all like that.
I’m curious, how does your administration decide when to do drills? I know my school loves to do them at the last minute and sometimes at very insensible times…
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I’m curious, how does your administration decide when to do drills? I know my school loves to do them at the last minute and sometimes at very insensible times…
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I think district policy where I live is that the principal meets with the head of security and someone from the fire department in August to set certain dates for drills. Usually the dates aren’t fully decided, so it’s more setting a week when the drills should take place. Usually it’s the same four weeks every year, the first and second week of school, a week in late October, and a week in mid-March. Sometime around the week of a drill, the principal looks at his schedule and decides what exact date and time would work best for him, the other admins, the fire department, etc., and then sends out a mass email to teachers that says something like “Fire Drill Thursday- 2:05 PM”. For all fire drills, there’s always a make-up date (usually the following day) scheduled should the drill be cancelled for any reason.
February 14, 2019 @ 8:03 AM EST
We had a boiler burst/leak that caused severe water damage to several classrooms and offices and this was the test that would have determined whether or not any fire alarm system components were damaged by water. While the boiler room flooded as a result of the leak, the FACP and NAC Extender are housed in the Mechanical Room, which is connected to the boiler room via a small passageway. Thankfully, the system was not affected and it functioned like it should.
Standard fire drill procedure. Bath Township Fire Dept. arrived at around 7:50 and the alarm was activated at 8:03. I was near the main entrance, so I got to hold the door open, so I can calculate the evacuation time. Everyone cleared our door within three minutes.
Surprisingly, it only took 2 minutes and 50 seconds for about 150 or more students who have to evacuate using the main entrance doors (due to other exits being blocked due to the construction of the new high school), which is a very fast evacuation time. It was only 25°F out and it feels like 10°, so it was very cold.
I also got to see the fire doors shut at the end of the corridor when everyone had left. Once the new school is built (the fire doors connect the 1995 addition-which is staying and will be added to the new high school-to the existing 1951 portion of the building), these doors will be removed and converted into an exit door to the outside on the first floor and a window will be added on the second floor where the doors used to be.
I did record audio of this drill, which I will upload whenever I have time.
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February 14, 2019 @ 8:03 AM EST
We had a boiler burst/leak that caused severe water damage to several classrooms and offices and this was the test that would have determined whether or not any fire alarm system components were damaged by water. While the boiler room flooded as a result of the leak, the FACP and NAC Extender are housed in the Mechanical Room, which is connected to the boiler room via a small passageway. Thankfully, the system was not affected and it functioned like it should.
Standard fire drill procedure. Bath Township Fire Dept. arrived at around 7:50 and the alarm was activated at 8:03. I was near the main entrance, so I got to hold the door open, so I can calculate the evacuation time. Everyone cleared our door within three minutes.
Surprisingly, it only took 2 minutes and 50 seconds for about 150 or more students who have to evacuate using the main entrance doors (due to other exits being blocked due to the construction of the new high school), which is a very fast evacuation time. It was only 25°F out and it feels like 10°, so it was very cold.
I also got to see the fire doors shut at the end of the corridor when everyone had left. Once the new school is built (the fire doors connect the 1995 addition-which is staying and will be added to the new high school-to the existing 1951 portion of the building), these doors will be removed and converted into an exit door to the outside on the first floor and a window will be added on the second floor where the doors used to be.
I did record audio of this drill, which I will upload whenever I have time.
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Since I can’t edit my own posts on this board, I’m just gonna quote myself here. Anyways, I forgot to mention that it seems like the custodial staff sets the alarm off for the fire dept. actually. All the firefighters were in the main entrance hall with our vice principal who is currently acting principal (our principal is currently out until next month because he had neck surgery or something). The panel is in the mechanical room, so they couldn’t have activated it unless they key activated a pull station in that hallway instead of using manual evac or something.
While riding towards my own school today, the middle school next to a stoplight intersection had their fire alarms going off. I did not hear any of the alarms because I was on the bus and additionally having my airpods (haha) on. The school visably has a -9101/-9838 and a -9105/-9846 beside windows, with some un-identifiable NAs in classrooms (possibly Wheelock ASes?). Unfortunately I missed the -9101 strobe, it was on the back of the school. I also noticed a few amber flashes, which are from ALERT-lettered TrueAlert strobes (i checked pictures of the school).
A fire truck was headed towards the school blaring all out so something must have happened, so this was definitely not some early-day fire drill.
You think that they will eventually replace everything with the Amber ALERT-lettered TrueAlerts?
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You think that they will eventually replace everything with the Amber ALERT-lettered TrueAlerts?
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No. For one, they are amber coloured (which would be off-code) and are also specifically strobes only. The middle school seems to have had them for a while.
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I’m still waiting for somebody to be in a dorm that has an actual HORN in it. LOL
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Lol I know I’m quoting this from a while back but I was going through the topic and reading this reminded me of a job I was recently working at.
We were doing a re-verification of a student residence building. This was built in 2016-17, with 2 17 story towers, that all share a 1st floor common area and parking garages. It’s a huge Simplex 4100ES system, and the amount of speakers is crazy. You have about 10 units each floor, and each unit has 3 or 4 bedrooms, which usually equals up to 4 to 5 speakers each unit (1 in each dorm room and 1 in the common area). It may not be a horn but it’s definitely loud, as half the students usually tape over their speakers. Plus the building has sprinkler heads in units too, so students keep hanging disco balls and such off of them :roll: . I felt bad for the one sprinkler guy because he had to go once for a service call. Apparently 4 girls thought they would try a seance right in their dorm room. They ended up setting off a sprinkler head because the table caught fire, and my co-worker was there from 11pm to 5am just resetting the sprinkler systems.
Well I’m sure that the students will learn when they end up breaking and activating a sprinkler.
we had a fire drill today, a lockdown drill yesterday and a tornado drill on monday
Looks like you are getting all of your drills done quickly.