My middle school has a notifier system, and my high school is getting one too.
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My high school was built around 2005 and 2006
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My interest was sparked when I witnessed a fire drill being conducted at my elementary school in Grade 6. At the time, I was taking private piano lessons that were offered through the school; these lessons were held in a small room near the main office. During one of these lessons, I saw the head custodian and a secretary just outside the doorway to this room. I didnāt understand what they were doing at first, but I then realized that the custodian was opening up a 270-SPO and explaining to the secretary how to conduct the fire drill (as he needed to go in the schoolās other building to conduct a drill at the same time). When I realized what was happening, I became worried as I was rather afraid of the fire alarm (signals were EST 882s in continuous)āthe anticipation of a fire drill was overwhelming.
This experience led me to wonder how these pull stations operated; I knew the custodian had opened up a 270-SPO, but I couldnāt see what it looked like inside from my angle. I started noticing the different 270-SPO variants in my school and different types of pull stations in other buildings I frequented; among these other types of pull stations, the first ones I remember noticing were Simplex 4251-30s, Cerberus MSI-51BCs and Notifier MPS-950Bs. My interest quickly grew to include other components such as panels, annunciators and signals.
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For me the first seed was planted in 1st grade, seeing the iconic design of the Wheelock 7002T-24, and continued into intermediate school with the Simplex 2903 light plates. This didnāt spark my interest yet, just remembering the unique designs of them. Fast forward a few years, I set out to find the exact models that I saw going to school. Then I started watching New Age Server Alarm on YouTube, and the rest was history. Even better is that I now possess the exact alarms that planted that first seed.
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Actually thinking back I think I know what got me liking fire alarms, my elementary school conducted a fire drill one day and I remember I was so fascinated with how the alarms sounded and how they would flash and how they looked and after the fire drill I started noticing the smoke detectors and the pull stations around my elementary school. and then I started making alarms out of cardboard boxes and taping them to the wall all around my house ( at the time I was watching a lot of new age server alarms videos) .
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Fals alarm at my high school
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Grade 2 in elementary school. I distinctivly remember one fire drill, as our class was fairly close to the main entrance, we would exit there. I remember hearing the 10" single stroke bells and the couple vibrating ones going in march time,
& Then I saw the 6500 as we were leaving. I was so intrigued, I saw red lights and the NAC circuits were all flashing yellow to the march time code. After that, I became more and more interested in the hobby.
To this day, Iāve been trying to replicate my old elementary school system, and now my old high school, as that system was sadly replaced finally. I missed salvaging it by a month. But, I do have a full 6500 panel and cabinet, the single stroke bells, all I need is the march time card, a super rare card I cannot find for the life of me.
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S.E.R. Safety, a popular Youtube collector.
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The Fire Drills, SER Safety, Safety Security Alert (Who i recently moved away from Fire Alarms to be a Music producer and explore abandoned buildings, I think), New Serverās System Test Series, Especially the Famous System test 26. (I like his new Security stuff too!)
There are some others, like FireAlarm9200, and @firealarmveteran15, who i think was the one who Told me about TFP forums.
Hopefully I will be the inspiration for someone else to be a FA enthusiast!
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I am on the Autism spectrum, so after my first school Fire Drill, I was instantly hooked. I loved the look of the strobes flashing out of sync, and the old mechanical horns sounding. I only recently joined the online Fire Alarm community after @MrFireAlarm introduced me to it.
Since my hobby began, I have talked with countless alarm techs, firefighters, school safety officers. Helping me get more knowledge.
My hobby has also expanded into Firefighting, Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Security Systems.
I have been very lucky at my current middle school. I along with @MrFireAlarm assisted in running a fire drill a few months back. My school has also had 4 different emergency situations requiring a fire alarm activation, and Fire Department/School Safety response.
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You know, I should email Grant (S.E.R. Safety) about joining these forums.
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You should give it a shot, I wonder if he will join.
(It would make TFP very popular if he shouts it out but it may plague the site with people underageā¦ )
Hmm
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Yeahā¦ā¦ā¦ I donāt want a bunch of obsessed fire alarm kids viewing my collection post and asking me to sell them my alarms.
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Not only that, but they would also infiltrate the TFP forums and turn them into a YouTube comment section. I am sure if SER was interested, he would look into the forums on his own.
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What do you mean by ā turn the forums into a YT comment section ā
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Were saying that it will interrupt the flow and formality of TFP Forums. Itās hard to explain, but it practically ruins the formality of the Forums.
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Oh ok. I can see why thatās bad
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On SER videos comments, it is usually filed with little kids from what I have seen. SER safety is a great content creator and is the reason I am in this hobby. Its just the younger community members that come on which worry me.
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And I bet those little kids probably think that FAās have feelings
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Who knows, but letās not Digress onto That topic.
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