Welcome to the made-up Fire Alarm Stories! This is where you can make up stories about fire alarms, incidents, and Events! I will be updating and creating more stories in the future!
STORY 1:
On October 3, 1987, I was on my break time in the morning going to the bathroom, for some reason everything was silent, the classrooms, the halls, everything even the office, I didn’t know if I was hallucinating or this was actually real, it was feeling like the apocalypse at this point.I then gone into the bathroom and forgot that I left my gameboy in the classroom, there wasn’t much to do and the only thing that could make me not as much bored was just looking at the 2904 Strobe that was in the bathroom, not to mention that they installed a 9833 horn in there. That was until all the sudden, I heard the horn buzz and the strobe flash, we never really had that much fire drills and also there wasn’t a fire drill announced and planned, I figured the school would finally end if there was an actual fire and that we would finally be able to not have no more homework for the school year I heard the lights buzz very loudly overpowering the fire alarm and then all the power going out, I quickly sprinted out the bathroom and trying to find my class or exit, for some reason the maintenance forgot to change the exit sign batteries so I had to find the exit myself without any light, and when I exited the bathroom, there was no sunlight from the windows or doors, just complete darkness, I quickly search for the classroom I was in and found it, I ran inside and there was no one in the classroom there was a couple of my friends and teachers there before I went and now they’ve all disappeared, I locked myself in the classroom and hid in the locker, I also remember seeing something that was in the halls, I will try to show what it looks like in the pictures before, I am also pretty sure that the lights flickered, will post more,
PART II:
COMING SOON
I got one.
I was working overtime today. I decided to run to the store next door and buy a frozen pizza. I popped it in the toaster oven and left the breakroom. I was just nearing my cubicle when the 2901 9517s all over the office started buzzing in 90bpm. It turned out i forgot to remove the cellophane wrapping on the pizza.
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XD actually pretty cool story can I get a part 2?
2nd part!!!
I went over to the window in the breakroom to open it. I saw 2 fire trucks pull up to the office. They must have gotten in and silenced the panel because the horns stopped buzzing. The building’s landlord came and looked at the panel to figure out where the alarm was activated. He reset the panel and walked up the stairs to the suite our business was renting. As soon as he walked in, the alarms reactivated. We silenced them and then used a folder to fan the smoke away from the wiffle ball detector. The system kept on tripping through the night. The next day, a guy walked in with a few SD355 and P2R boxes. I asked him, what is going on? He said they are replacing the 2001 panel with a state of the art Fire lite panel. He started replacing the old devices with the new ones. A few hours later, someone hit on the intercom and said that the fire alarms will be tested. To be continued…
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Yay Part 3! 
Tysm!!!
Part 3: I was at a hospital with a parent, They had to see their colorectal doctor. I had a sibling that was rogue. They weren’t able to watch them. The sibling pulled the fire alarm. A bunch of Wheelock E70s went off in a old notifier slow whoop and a message. The system kept going off until the inspector showed up to silence and reset it. The interesting thing is everyone evacuated the hospital. The parent said it was really loud when they went off but I’m thinking the wattage was at 2 watts.
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Story 1; Sports stadium madness: I was at a Sports stadium. I saw some System Sensor SP2R24110 1st Generation SpectrAlert Classic Speaker/Strobes (Screw style) flashing in sync while the speakers were silenced. The strobes were very bright as they were Fixed 110CD. During the middle of the game, the fire alarm system was reset.
Story 2; Mixed Noisy Fire Alarm System at a High School: I tested a Fire Alarm system at an old High School. They had mixed Simplex, Edwards EST, System Sensor and Wheelock Fire Alarms. A majority of Fire Alarms were Simplex 4903-9219, 4903-9215 & 4903-9217 Horn/Strobes manufactured in 1996–97 mounted on backboxes. They were incredibly loud and the strobes flashed out of sync. They also had Simplex 4903 Vertical Mounted Electromechanical Horn/Strobes, Simplex 4903-925X, Simplex 4 Wire TrueAlert, SmartSync QuickAlert Horn/Strobes from 2000 & 4903 Electronic Horn/Strobes from 2000 in a large newer section. Non Simplex alarms included; System Sensor SpectrAlert Classics/Advances, L-Series, Wheelock NS AS Exceeder & Edwards Genesis & Integrity. Of course you can’t forget the remote strobes, the Simplex 4904s which they had every Red vertical strobe & horizontal Free Run Strobe model. The 4903s sounded in continuous.
Story 3; The most consistent Fire Alarm System?: I was at a Doctor’s Office when I heard some Simplex 4903-9401, 4903-9403 & 4903-9405 Horn/Strobes going off. The alarms were all manufactured in 1996. All alarms had their jumper wires cut meaning they’d operate in 4 Wire Operation. The most interesting part is that they sounded in pulse (60BPM March Time)
Story 4; Keeping a grocery store fire alarm system in place for 30 years: There was a grocery store with Simplex 4903-9219 & 4903-9217 Horn/Strobes from 1994 (a few of the 4903-9217s are actually from January 1995 as they have the ‘EPW’ date code on the back) and they were original. All the horns sounded terrible. As a matter of fact one of the 9217s had a broken horn, but the strobe was still flashing. The person removing the Fire Alarms restored/cleaned that 4903-9217 and put in a brand spankin new NIB Faraday 6230 Series Horn in it. It works great! The one 4903-9219 that is in the worst shape which has a crap ton of paint on the sides, back & model number sticker and even some on the strobe lens. It is also the worst sounding horn of them all. The strobe reflector on that is so dirty that it has a lot of black spots & yellowing. That horn sounds like it is about to die and it is not that loud and the strobe is very dim since it is only 15CD. In 2025, they ended up upgrading/replacing all the awful sounding unsynchronized strobe 4903s with System Sensor LED L-Series.
Story #4; Okay, so you’re just going to let the 4903-9219s die, how dare you: Okay, so there was this one system in a school that had Simplex 4903-9219 Electromechanical Horn/Strobes from 1994. They originally used a simplex panel to control every single fire alarm but however that panel died & decided to install a fire lite panel which outputs FWR, the one reason why I hate Fire-Lite panels. Unfortunately none of the 4903-9219s survived & they had to replace the panel & all the fire alarm devices. The horns sounded really bad from the start but on FWR they sounded even worse.
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Go in that room with the eyes, it’s just a prank bro
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Next batch of stories
1st Story; The Coded Strobes on Speaker Strobes which the Fire Marshal Disliked: Once upon a time there were Simplex 4903-9148, 4903-9149 & 4903-9150 Speaker/Strobes followed by 4904-9174 Strobes in a Dormitory. What got the FM Concerned was that the Strobes were flashing in Code 3 rather than in a SmartSync Not Coded strobes. The people who worked for the company agreed to this plan and decided to improvise sync modules reconfiguring the settings on all strobes to be set to SmartSync. Since this is a Voice Evacuation system in the Boston Area they also changed the tone to a Code 3 Tone from the slow whoop they originally had it set to. Even if a strobe was a little too bright for an area the people who worked on the system agreed not to put tape over the strobe since that is not appropriate
2nd Story; The accidental Fire Alarm replacement; There was once upon a time where there was a Simplex 4903-9148 Speaker/Strobe in a Dining Hall where the strobe didn’t flash but the speaker was sounding. They ordered a Simplex 4903-9149 as a replacement part however that was kind of good because the brighter strobe was even better since it is a large dining room.
I woke up at 6 am and ate some coffee, Cinnamon Rolls, and some Minecraft cereal.
I went to my job, to a big mall that needs a new fire alarm system
I started by removing the Wheelock 34T’s and replaceing them with Led L-Series.
Then, I removed the FCi 7200 FACP and replaced it with a Notifier NFS2-640.
The FCi MS-2s were replaced with NBG-12LX’S
The smokes were FCi ones, and I replaced them with notifier.
Now, I brought all of the old stuff home, and now I have 100 FCi ms-2s up in my attic.
WHY L-SERIES THEM!!! tell me you saved them!!!
oh nvm, good job!!! TAFATP approved!,
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Was the new system a voice evac system?
No, just normal horn strobes
Ok next time, I went to a nursing home that had a Notifier AFP-340, NBG10LX’s, Notifier smokes, Gentex SHGs.
Now, I came here because their was a water leak, apparently some old lady broke her toilet on purpose, and it leaked, and it leaked directly on a smoke. As soon as I pulled it down, pee/poop water leaked out of the smoke.
I replaced it with a newer one, but I had to install a monitor module.
That smoke went into the dumpster.
Next call was to a bowling alley, the system was a Fire-Lite SensiScan, with BG-10 pulls, Wheelock MT horn strobes, and Fire-Lite Smokes.
They had some kid rage and he threw a bowing ball at a BG-10, obliterating it.
So, I had to pry the smashed bg-10 out of the wall, and replace it with a bg-12.
Also, replaced panel batteries, and replaced a Wheelock MT that had a dead strobe with a System Sensor L-Series LED.
After that, went to a old church that had a 1970s Edwards system.
It had:
Edwards 270-SPOs
Edwards Apadahorn
Edwards Heat decetors
I started by removing everything, then I replaced the panel with a Fire-Lite ES-200X
I replaced the Horns with LED L-Series
The pulls were Bg-12.
The heats were replaced with Fire-Lite smokes.
Don’t worry, the old stuff worked fine, it was just old. I saved the old stuff and I’m gonna make a demo board with the panel.
Does your jurisdiction adopt NFPA 101? Hopefully the mall didn’t have a food court with 300 occupants.
Was the system unsynchronized?
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If I recall correctly, yes.
Next time to go to a Hotel.
The system was a Gentex commander 2 system, And GX-90 mini horns, with NBG-12LX’S and a Notifier NFS-3030 (OG one)
The smokes were notifier.
Three of the Gentex commander 2s were dead, so they were replaced with system Sensor LED L-Series.
Next, replaced a NBG-12LX with a newer one because the pull handle was cracked.
After that, I went to a school
The system there was a 1970s Autocall system.
The panel was Autocall, the pulls and smokes were Autocall, the N/As were Autocall horns, but there was two Non-ADA System Sensor MA/SS.
The system was not working, and the school didn’t have enough money for the entire replacement so I replaced the panel itself with a Fire-Lite ES200X.
I also Replaced two pulls with BG-12LXs.