Welcome to the made-up Fire Alarm Stories! This is where you can either 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.