My story
It was about 2:35 in the afternoon, everyone was chillin because school was going to be out in about 25 minutes, and then we heard the Wheelock 7002t-24s in the hallways start to roar, we went out and one of the people from the front office came out yelling into their radio “This is not a drill, evacuate the building” and there it was, smoke rising from the pre school. Turned out the kitchen was on fire in the pre school because the teachers went out with the kids for a project forgetting they left the burners on, and the fire department came and they extinguished the kitchen within a minute. Scary af tbh
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Also I thought that the system wasn’t working because we hadn’t had a drill in forever, but that was 4 years ago so it’s prob working now
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This story happened about 13 or 14 years ago when I was in 3rd grade. A rooftop A/C unit caught fire somehow, now I’m not sure if it was triggered by the duct detectors or if someone manually activated the alarms (Wheelock 7002T-24’s). So we start evacuating, as we’re doing so they announce over the loudspeaker that it is a code red, and that it’s not a drill, back then code red in our district was fire. We walked to the other elementary school across the street since it was raining that day, and sat in the gym for a while. I don’t know if the fire department responded or not, but we were led back after a few hours. The 2nd floor where my classroom was smelled like burnt electrical for a few days afterwards. I’ve got more stories involving fires in our school district but this is the only one I’ve experienced, I’ll share them if people want them.
thats surely something
When I was in second grade, we had a real fire. We were doing math and the principal was actually visiting with my teacher in the classroom doorway when the alarm went off. Apparently, there was an electrical fire in a library IT closet that triggered the smoke detector in there. Luckily, it never spread past that room and we were let back in later that day.
my story happened about 12 years ago when I was in first grade. we were working on addition when the alarms went off (the system was an old Pyrotronics system that has since been replaced) we thought that it was yet another false alarm. as we walked down the hall we could smell smoke and the halls were kinda hazey. when we got outside we could see a lot of smoke coming from the kitchen. after the fd came and left the cafeteria was unusable and we got to go home early, after that we did school at a diffrent location untill the cafeteria was repaired.
I wasn’t in this, but I did respond as the on-call tech:
Had a building in an assisted living community go up in flames, down to the foundation. Reasoning was one of the residents was cooking, and forgot that they left the burner on. Since the day was late May, and seasonably warm so everyone had the windows open, there was no stopping the flames once they started. Fire alarm was activated, and thankfully everyone got out, had a response from 6 different fire departments on scene. The county we are in requires a response from the fire alarm vendor, regardless of reason, so I had to go and “reset” the alarm.
Yeah, this was 2 years ago. My school cafeteria sprinkler went off after an over caught a big fire. Everyone and the school was okay, no one injured and off, the fire dept showed up. We have L series white speaker strobes and the what used to be portables (now gone) were the same things but with advance speaker strobes outdoors. That’s all.
I don’t know if this really counts but in 8th grade, we were doing a science experiment. It created a ton of smoke and it set off the alarms. It’s amazing how sensitive the Simplex 2098-9636 still is, even though that model is almost 40 years old.
Is that really a false? I’m not sure honestly, the detector was doing its job.