The important thing with any fire alarm system in a building is to test it so often that if there ever is a REAL fire, everyone will be conditioned to ignore it and slowly burn to death.
The Aparment complex I live in uses vintage Edward Fire Alarm and on continuous which can be heard allover the place even if you're not very close to the building and can be heard in the basement. On night my Brother thought the Fire Alarm sound was my old Clock Radio which constantly made staticy sound all day.
@@stephensnell1379 Oh don’t worry I do have smoke detectors that are fully functional it’s those fire alarms you see in schools and other buildings that I am traumatized over.
+Adam Carter, yes they are my favorite alarms. My school has the frosted strobe version of these. They are called Wheelock MT 24 VFR. They are mostly meant for outdoor use, while the LSM is only meant for indoor because of its strobe design.
If I lived in an apartment where the fire alarm went off in the middle of the night for no reason I would be so upset I will be tired in school the next day if it were on a Sunday through a Thursday because I lost a lot of sleep all because of the alarm going off for no reason.
mine was simplex 2901 9838s on 4903 9102 light plates on march time it scared people and no pull stations in halls because false alarms scare people with those
The Apartment Building I lived in during late 80s-early 90s had Simplex either 9806 or Federal Signal in Continuous. Thankfully only in the Hallway and not in the Units.
Here where I live in Rochester, New York when an alarm is activated via a pull station, the dispatcher will indicate that the alarm is originating from a pull station when they put the call out on the radio. At one of the local children’s homes about a mile or so from me nine times out of ten it’s a false alarm.
My fire alarm went off at midnight tonight. Nobody was awake now cooking. The fire alarm was like one of the ones in your house but old. Our fore alarm sounded like a car accident, a bunch of silence. The fire alarms have been going off at 12pm-3pm. It was going off for 20 minutes until we called a number. It wasn’t connected to a fire system so the fire department didn’t come. I don’t understand the point of a fire alarm if fire trucks dont come. We have around 300 apartments and they all are lined up. Were not in the upstairs but you get it. We’re moving soon
+KyoRedBladeZR1 Under the 1994 or 1996 act apartments, more than 4 connected have to have a full alarm system unless they have a 15 ft separation " everyone of the 400 apartments" so they could of had 100 different buildings with 4 apartments but that is uneconomical .
Andrew not necessarily, people who are hearing impaired and or blind might not be able to hear it see the regular Smoke detectors thus the fire alarm system with the horn and strobe light might save a life. Their usually in ADA appartments.
If I had to live in an apartment complex to where the fire alarm went off constantly at 4 in the morning, I'd grab a sledgehammer and smash the alarm to bits!!!!!!!!!
I would NOT move into an apartment building that is running on a Wheelock system. Simplex Truealerts and 4903's aren't TOO BAD, but I prefer to be in a building with EST Genesis or Integrity models as those sound the most pleasant when it comes to fire alarms. If the building has Spectralert and there not speaker strobe I'm moving the F out!
I wouldn't mind Wheelock 7002T. They are not as loud as a Wheelock MT and they are one of the most tolerable horn strobes on continuous. The NS and Exceders are not that bad. I have been able to evacuate my elementary school in 1st grade with the NS horn strobes without covering my ears. It's a little tickle and does not hurt all. The notifier 3030 whoop tone is my favorite and it's neither too jarring nor too gentle.
@@davidperry4013 Yeah I feel ya. At first I thought 4903s sounded like the end of the world but when I heard them in person for the first time they weren't so bad
Yeah the condo buildings in my community. Since it so old and when they installed a new fire lite system a couple of years ago. And they just put system sensor horn strobes in the units. They are no horn strobes in the hallways at all not even smoke detectors in the hallways. Just two pull stations by each entrance. So the only time if he goes off if it gets sit off by a pull. Or someone smoke detectors in they units. I know it has happened if people burned they food.
Well this is very dangerous because if this keeps happening one day they will start ignoring it and think is just a prank but one day the building will catch on fire and everyone will die because of this type of pranks prankers are doing
If it’s a janky esl panel, that would make sense. But just simply checking where the zone is and where it is, they can try to figure it out there. There are honestly more ways to solve this
Fix that problem right now i am not happy about all of that racket and if I live there I will not get any sleep because that thing is super duper loud. Unless this wake up call is going to save your life it shouldn’t be worth waking up to this
i would hate living in an apartment that had Wheelock MT's in the actual apartments why couldn't they have settled in a mini horn or just a silent strobe
I would hate living in that apartment complex where having fire alarm screaming at u at an odd hour ugh I would throw the covers over my head and it would scare my cousin too if we lived there
I put duct tape over all the speakers. Can still hear it (I'm not deaf!) But it's less piercing of a sound. I also put duct tape over the flash and it helps a bit with that too (flash is too intense for me).
James Erikson I understand how annoying it is. I think next time you should check with the fire marshal because there are codes and standards in place to ensure the alarms can function properly should a real fire ever break out.
@@MrTylerNicole1 easy to say when you aren’t being woken up every night out of your sleep. It’s happening in my building now in 2023. Alarms go off 2-4x/month at all hours. This week alone on Monday at 3am and this morning again at 3:50am for TWO hours. The system needs to be fixed. Until then, I support people covering up the alarms. If a real fire breaks out, God forbid, that building is going to be held liable because of all the false alarms that made the residents desensitized to the sound.
Well if they going to update the system then they should put low frequency sounders and strobes in the units and then have horn strobes in the hallways.
They should put in security cameras around pull stations. Once they see that little dome in the ceiling near a fire alarm pull station they’ll think twice before pulling it.
And for smoke alarms they they should get the Keddle CO combo smoke and carbon alarms or 1st alert and for fire alarms get the simplex true alert or Edwards inspecter alerts
I'm sorry apartment manager if it's pranksters than updating the system won't fix the problem.
yes it would if u put stopper 2 woth horns and cameras then that should work
The important thing with any fire alarm system in a building is to test it so often that if there ever is a REAL fire, everyone will be conditioned to ignore it and slowly burn to death.
someone's pulling the fire alarm so they should install cameras in the apartment and the can catch the suspect
The Aparment complex I live in uses vintage Edward Fire Alarm and on continuous which can be heard allover the place even if you're not very close to the building and can be heard in the basement. On night my Brother thought the Fire Alarm sound was my old Clock Radio which constantly made staticy sound all day.
This is one reason why I don’t want to live in a apartment because of Fire Alarms since I have trauma over them happening in school.
Fact-Fire alarms are essential to staying safe if in life if a fire ever occurs you will be aware of it
@@stephensnell1379 Well they don’t have to be so loud as for example at two schools I went to they weren’t that loud but they got the point across.
@@Mario87456 even in YOUR own home for example you must have a fully functional Smoke detector to keep you safe
@@stephensnell1379 Oh don’t worry I do have smoke detectors that are fully functional it’s those fire alarms you see in schools and other buildings that I am traumatized over.
Garden style 2 story apartments have hardwired smoke alarms. You can shut it up by pressing the hush button.
+Adam Carter, yes they are my favorite alarms. My school has the frosted strobe version of these. They are called Wheelock MT 24 VFR. They are mostly meant for outdoor use, while the LSM is only meant for indoor because of its strobe design.
Alexander Goushy G&G Landscaping Yeah.
Who Adam Carter?
If I lived in an apartment where the fire alarm went off in the middle of the night for no reason I would be so upset I will be tired in school the next day if it were on a Sunday through a Thursday because I lost a lot of sleep all because of the alarm going off for no reason.
they had alarms like that in my grade school and it's given me a fear of em for life
Cat Cat same
The MT 6 are old I think I did see some in Canada at a Best Buy
mine was simplex 2901 9838s on 4903 9102 light plates on march time it scared people and no pull stations in halls because false alarms scare people with those
Definitely sounds like pranksters. Very irritating that it happens at all hours lol I'd go mad.
Easy use an STI stopper with the alarm, also install cameras near pull stations and exits
Better solution than a regular Stopper would be the Break Glass Stopper.
Or put a security camera by every pull station so they will know who pulled the fire alarm.
use STI stoppers
exactly
That's just what I was going to say
Break Glass Stoppers would be best.
I don't mind that noise I hear it all day every day I test fire alarms
unless its an older E.S.L (judging by the devices it probobly is) you can tell where the alarm is coming from.
That's an MTS wheelock and I have those at my school
I miss when fire alarms used to look like that
The Apartment Building I lived in during late 80s-early 90s had Simplex either 9806 or Federal Signal in Continuous. Thankfully only in the Hallway and not in the Units.
They can't just stick minihorns or remote strobes in the rooms? Geez.
Why minihorns? MINIHORNS ARE NOT LOUD ENOUGH!!
REMOTE STROBES CANT WAKE UP PEOPLE
they might have elipsy.
And then link the fire detectors
thats what iwas thinking
I would’ve gotten my screwdriver out, and taken it down, and cut the wires to it. Problem solved
Would anyone find out? Would they open the cover and check the speaker when they do unit inspection?
@@Peg-rl3gm if it comes up as a system trouble, they're bound to find out.
By the way, we have fire drills in our dorm at about 5 AM like two or three times a year.
If it is a prank then they should not have any pull stations out side the building at all
but they need to it save lives so does smoke alarms
JoshSomerton *Pull stations* outdoors, not indoors are the actual horns themselves.
I agree
Ya both smoke alarm and fire alarms have a functioning and could be both attached to the panel
my apartment does not have any, but it still goes off.
I could fall asleep to that sound and sleep like a baby. Because I think that sounds just sounds like magic.
hahahaha yeah
Same
dident find any errors, but the alarms could use a wipe-down.
Here where I live in Rochester, New York when an alarm is activated via a pull station, the dispatcher will indicate that the alarm is originating from a pull station when they put the call out on the radio. At one of the local children’s homes about a mile or so from me nine times out of ten it’s a false alarm.
My fire alarm went off at midnight tonight. Nobody was awake now cooking. The fire alarm was like one of the ones in your house but old. Our fore alarm sounded like a car accident, a bunch of silence. The fire alarms have been going off at 12pm-3pm. It was going off for 20 minutes until we called a number. It wasn’t connected to a fire system so the fire department didn’t come. I don’t understand the point of a fire alarm if fire trucks dont come. We have around 300 apartments and they all are lined up. Were not in the upstairs but you get it. We’re moving soon
Who the hell puts a fire alarm in the apartments?! That's overkill. A normal smoke detector would work just fine, but that's too much.
+KyoRedBladeZR1 Under the 1994 or 1996 act apartments, more than 4 connected have to have a full alarm system unless they have a 15 ft separation " everyone of the 400 apartments" so they could of had 100 different buildings with 4 apartments but that is uneconomical .
The thing is most resedents people should notice fire horns and smoke alarms or fire bells I think their both equally loud.
Andrew not necessarily, people who are hearing impaired and or blind might not be able to hear it see the regular Smoke detectors thus the fire alarm system with the horn and strobe light might save a life. Their usually in ADA appartments.
Diamond Christian21 true that!!
In my new apartment I have a spectacular alert advance oh death to the ears
If I had to live in an apartment complex to where the fire alarm went off constantly at 4 in the morning, I'd grab a sledgehammer and smash the alarm to bits!!!!!!!!!
jediskunk67 same
It’s against fire code even not having a working smoke alarm is against fire code
Do that, you will go to jail
It’s agsinsed fire code they need to be there to save your life
I'm sorry, but a simple smoke detector will do.
I would NOT move into an apartment building that is running on a Wheelock system. Simplex Truealerts and 4903's aren't TOO BAD, but I prefer to be in a building with EST Genesis or Integrity models as those sound the most pleasant when it comes to fire alarms. If the building has Spectralert and there not speaker strobe I'm moving the F out!
what about a mechanical horn on 120 bpm march time
I wouldn't mind Wheelock 7002T. They are not as loud as a Wheelock MT and they are one of the most tolerable horn strobes on continuous. The NS and Exceders are not that bad. I have been able to evacuate my elementary school in 1st grade with the NS horn strobes without covering my ears. It's a little tickle and does not hurt all. The notifier 3030 whoop tone is my favorite and it's neither too jarring nor too gentle.
@@davidperry4013 Yeah I feel ya. At first I thought 4903s sounded like the end of the world but when I heard them in person for the first time they weren't so bad
Yeah I'm gonna keep record of my apartment too because my apartment is starting to do this too 😒
So whatever became of this fiasco? Did they fix the alarm?
i was not expecting to see they put an actually HORN STROBE device in the room. a minihorn or just a strobe would be enough
Alexanders Alarms Strobes don’t wake people up if they aren’t in the same room as the sleeper lol
Yeah the condo buildings in my community. Since it so old and when they installed a new fire lite system a couple of years ago. And they just put system sensor horn strobes in the units. They are no horn strobes in the hallways at all not even smoke detectors in the hallways. Just two pull stations by each entrance. So the only time if he goes off if it gets sit off by a pull. Or someone smoke detectors in they units. I know it has happened if people burned they food.
Everyone needs some sleep this is not a toy never pull the fire alarm unless is a real emergency
We need fire alarm control. ABOLISH THE NFPA!!!
@@TheJakeman789 Why abolish nfpa?
The fire alarm is only a toy to play with when you buy one to use in your house
@@ooka7705 agreed
Well this is very dangerous because if this keeps happening one day they will start ignoring it and think is just a prank but one day the building will catch on fire and everyone will die because of this type of pranks prankers are doing
Wheelock MT 24-LSM
Dang you beat my to it
my school has horn strobes just like these with dual action t bar pulls.
It’s Edwards wheel lock MT promisus?
Wheel lock MT promises
Correct
If it’s a janky esl panel, that would make sense. But just simply checking where the zone is and where it is, they can try to figure it out there. There are honestly more ways to solve this
Fix that problem right now i am not happy about all of that racket and if I live there I will not get any sleep because that thing is super duper loud. Unless this wake up call is going to save your life it shouldn’t be worth waking up to this
No
i would hate living in an apartment that had Wheelock MT's in the actual apartments why couldn't they have settled in a mini horn or just a silent strobe
I would hate living in that apartment complex where having fire alarm screaming at u at an odd hour ugh I would throw the covers over my head and it would scare my cousin too if we lived there
Kenzie Backlin would u want to move ?
Matthew Gregory idk I still live in California
Those alarms are Wheelock MT-24LSM multi tone horn strobes
If they're multitone
At least set it to a more pleasant sound
Alarms used were Wheelock MT (Multitone) and pull stations are Honeywell T bars.
Did they ever find the problem?
My worst nightmare would be waking up to that alarm sound
Harrison Slaughter yep I wouldn't have any sleep
Harrison Slaughter same here
I’ve worken up to a bell and my former gfs apartment
The alarms in the apartment building I'm in usually sounds like an electric razor in earrape mode.
I put duct tape over all the speakers. Can still hear it (I'm not deaf!) But it's less piercing of a sound. I also put duct tape over the flash and it helps a bit with that too (flash is too intense for me).
James Erikson I understand how annoying it is. I think next time you should check with the fire marshal because there are codes and standards in place to ensure the alarms can function properly should a real fire ever break out.
thats illigal to do fucking idiot
@@MrTylerNicole1 easy to say when you aren’t being woken up every night out of your sleep. It’s happening in my building now in 2023. Alarms go off 2-4x/month at all hours. This week alone on Monday at 3am and this morning again at 3:50am for TWO hours. The system needs to be fixed. Until then, I support people covering up the alarms. If a real fire breaks out, God forbid, that building is going to be held liable because of all the false alarms that made the residents desensitized to the sound.
Well if they going to update the system then they should put low frequency sounders and strobes in the units and then have horn strobes in the hallways.
They should put in security cameras around pull stations. Once they see that little dome in the ceiling near a fire alarm pull station they’ll think twice before pulling it.
0:20 I thought that was a low frequency sounder fire alarm
same
And that alarm he pointed out was a Wheelock MT. On the most annoying tone which is code 3 tone.
its on code 3
They show EST Integrities fire alarms.
They play Wheelock alarm sounds.
Just Plain Weird Goat it must be a simplex system I think they are the only ones with T bars or maybe system senser
no, that is a wheelock alarm.
Just Plain Weird Goat That’s a Wheelock MT
They kinda look the same
We have those fire alarms at school and they sounds just like that
they would know what the problem was if it was PULLED. because they would have to reset the pull station. Makes 0 senese.
Why do you put a Wheelock AS in a fucking apartment, You are insane if you’re thinking of doing that.
Thats an mt but it sounds like an as
I think someone decided to pull a false alarm and interfere with the peaceful slumber of his/her neighbors.
Who Puts a Wheelock MT on Continuous in a Apartment Room
I know I would never do that I would put at least a genesis chime strobe in there so it wouldn’t be so bad
It is a wheelock MT
The pannel in the apartment may have trouble
Luna Reviews time to do an upgrade If that’s the case
Each apartment building in I’m told should have their own panel I don’t get why Albuquerque have a panel for all the apartments buildings ?
I woken up to a Siemens UMMT fire alarm 2 TIMES!!!!!
Those are Wheelock MT'S
Change the Coding Option. They should really use LF Sounders.
samtherailroadguy5000 I would prefer the chime strobes because it wouldn’t be so jarring
Or L series speaker strobes with the notifier 3030 whoop tone. It's the perfect sweet spot between gentle and jarring.
It is a strobe not a light.
A strobe IS a light. Hence / Strobe light/.
No Strobes flash faster compared to lights. I know better than you. I am a fire alarm enthusiast.
@@AadiPendse Nobody likes a smartarse.
@@GetRekt-bw6pu That Is Not Nice
@@AadiPendse What is'nt?
We have that kind of fire alarm at my school
those are wheelock Mts
I was sleeping with my nanny when a man pulls the fire alarm off and I woke up shaking and my nanny checks what happen
Teheran need STI Stopper 2 cover on the outside and all inside pulls if it happens consistently with horns
A better solution than a regular Stopper would be the Break Glass Stopper.
why on earth would you have the wheelock on continuous
I am paranoid of Wheelocks
They're pretty loud
at least they ain't Specteralert Advance
Emergency Alert System I love genesis actually lol
And for smoke alarms they they should get the Keddle CO combo smoke and carbon alarms or 1st alert and for fire alarms get the simplex true alert or Edwards inspecter alerts
Miguel the musician Torres at least they ain't true-alerts, worse that spectralerts
They would not have any sleep
Spectre alert Advanced is out of the loudest alarms
They are wheelock MTs
Luna Reviews MT promise or 6
Could be bugs too
Wheelock MT-24LSM horn strobes on Continuous
I woudldnt want to wake up to a fire alarm and mine is worse is Spector alert advance
Those things sound terrible
And they're in pretty much every building now
Are you not allowed to rip it off the wall?
You should be
Replacing it with a strobe only
@@1bejarrr but what about the blind people
Wheelock MT-24LSM on Continuous Horn, and ESL T-Bar, Exactly the same as my old summer school...
2:02 Wouldn't like to wake up to a fire alarm at that time on my birthday... yes, my birthday is the 9th of august
At my house a smoke alarm saves my life
Happy birthday even though it passed 💕😊
That happened to me when I was living in an apartment and I it always went off
Yea
At least it’s not an EST Genesis
they are both the same amount of decibel.s
@@AadiPendse my school has genesis and there loud as hell
a simplex mechanical horn is alot louder some are
Oh wheelock mts
The brand new Katyusha BM 13 of the Wheelock MT models or better yet the system sensor Spectralert advance and P2R models
I also see a fire ex xfs and the horns are MT promise?
Major oof
It’s called some kind of a wheelock
It’s called the wheelock MT.
I also see a fire ex over the door beside a wheel lock MT promises
Fire ex GTX
Does he mean a wheelock mt horn strobe 😀😀😂😂 fire alarm
darn kids.
Wheelock mt 24 lsm
sniffsniff16 Fire alarms and more! and why is it on continuous why not code 3?
Looked to me like a simplex pull station
If it's a real fire it should be on continues I guess if it's a practice drill then on code 3 how are they going to find those pranks ?
Funtimes 123 not sure but it probably has to do with it being a residential complex. That'd be a question for the building manager
They are SLM's, you can tell by the thin fire lettering an 1hz flash rate.