What are your Fire Alarm stories 2.0?

I was looking through the archives of this site, and found an older topic called “What are your fire alarm stories?” It looked like this topic was very popular at one time, so I decided to recreate this for users who couldn’t post on it since it was too old. So I’ll start off with a couple of my own…

  1. We were all in school in passing period. We were all about to go to class when the SPECTRALERT ADVANCES went off. My school was built in 1963, so the hallways echoed like crazy, and the advances were on high volume. Everyone SCREAMED and ran out.

Was that the time they were on continuous? :stuck_out_tongue:

Yep that is the time

Alright. I have a few stories.

Winnipeg Beach School, Third Grade

It was in November, and the school was preparing for Parent-Teacher Conferences. The janitor was sweeping dust in the main entrance. Apparently, he hadn’t swept in a while, and there was enough dust to set off the smoke detector!

In case you don’t already know, I suffered from severe fire drill anxiety from grade 2 right through grade 6. To prevent me from having a panic attack, the principal would tell me whenever we were having a fire drill, and would let me go outside where the alarms weren’t so loud. Well, this time, I didn’t know, so I instantly assumed it was the real deal.

I ran outside as fast as I could, and hid under the play structure. The alarms went off for five minutes, after which classes began filing back in. I got heck from my first grade teacher, but I didn’t listen to her, mainly because she was a heartless old hag. :evil:

Shooting Star Casino, Summer 2010

My dad, sister and I were in the pool, and my grandma was in the casino. I had just dove into the pool. Just as I touched the bottom, I could hear a faint buzzing noise. When I resurfaced, I was shocked to see that the -9838s were going off!

My first instinct was to panic. My dad attempted to reassure me that it was “just a panic alarm”, while a security guard ran through the pool room. About one minute later, the alarms were shut off, and the alarms did three rounds of audible silence before the panel was reset.

Winnipeg Beach School, Seventh Grade

Thats all for now. I may post more later.

What exactly do you mean by three rounds of audible silence?

I believe he meant 3 minutes. :stuck_out_tongue:

or maybe three flashes of the strobe :?

Really slow flash? XD

3 flashes=snailplex 4903-Tooslowstrobe.