Humorous fire alarm stories

Fire Alarm General Discussion
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What I mean by this is, we’ll, what kind of fire alarm stories have you had when something completely unexpected or just down right funny happens. Let me share a few…

This year in school, my fellow classmates and I were in the halls during passing period. We were very close to the time where we go to class when, the fire alarm went off. We all froze and dropped our binders. When we got outside, all of us RAN to the track. We then went to our spots when me and a few of my friends started singing and doing the dance moves of YMCA. My teachers were mad because it was supposed to be quiet. I have not mentioned this to my parents because I would be in some hot water because we have to be silent.

Another one is also this year. We were playing American patrol in band when the alarm went off. We were scared by the loud blaring of the spectralert advances. I decided to see if my trumpet could beat the loudness of the. Alarm. Mr. Ecker (my music teacher) got SUPER MAD and he yelled “stop it right now”. We then evacuated and I realized my friend brought his CLARINET out and was playing it on the track. Mr. Ecker was furious. So the alarm stopped around then. When we prepared to go inside, the alarm went off again and we stayed outside for LONGER. I looked over and my biggest fear happened. THE DRUMMERS WERE FIGHTING with the drum sticks. Around then the alarms stopped and we went inside and the strobes flashed until lunch next period (23 minutes).

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A couple years ago I was out with a co worker performing an annual sprinkler system test at a Verizon facility in Boston. Normally we silence the alarms so we can to keep things on a quiet note, but because this was a complex system tied in with either dry chem or some other extinguishing agent, we had no choice but to just let the alarms sound and use the silence feature on the panel when they went off. The guy I worked with was this big “tough guy” who liked to mock others for any weakness he could find in them. So when the Spectra Advances were going off, the silence button didn’t want to work for me and this other guy is screaming through the walkie talkie for me to silence it because the sound was causing him to freak out. I laughed and just for all the crap he put me through on a daily basis I let the horns go a bit longer than necessary.