What is the worst fire alarm fail you have ever seen?

It’s like it’s peeking out.

(Quietly) “umm, guys, there’s a fire”

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I’m not sure if this counts, but a Simplex TrueAlarm butted up against the wall in my school. I believe it messes with letting smoke into the detection chamber.

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hey atleast it serves two rooms now

If it is a temporary wall, maybe they just wanted the signal to sound on both sides of the wall.

Found this at the gym in school today. If you look closely, the cover is broken.

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Not even a pull station cover can survive a round of dodgeball. Time to get that changed out before it breaks off the other big piece.

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Saw this at a Harbor Freight. Random symbols were popping up on the annunciator.

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It must requires thousands of PSI to work

This seems to be a common issue tho

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In one of the mechanical rooms in my school, there is a bg12lx right next to the light switch. It has no cover on it.

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Anything wring with it?
Yea, you see it too…

Is that a vintage Edwards pull station without it’'s cover?

Is it the screw? That’s my guess.

Rod broken but not replaced

At a local Sam’s Club there is a gray est integrity with a blue strobe that is falling off, it is only dangling by the wires at this point.

That’s likely a refrigerator alarm not a fire alarm.

Probably this. Spotted in my school’s performing arts branch

This First Alert SMI-100 is probably the funniest

Painted Adaptahorn

7002T stuck in a wall

Camouflaged BRK smoke alarm of some sort

my former HS has a similar double fail to the painted over Adaptahorn situation, except it’s two early 70s Faraday-designed devices (both rebranded by Simplex BTW; a red 5400/4050 horn alongside a 4080/90 six inch vibrating class change bell in beige) you can actually find it in a fire drill video I filmed almost four years ago

This hurts to look at