Potomac Hall Fire Drill, November 8, 2001
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- A fire drill at Potomac Hall, a dormitory at James Madison University, on November 8, 2001. This is the full drill, from start to finish.
The pull station is a Cerberus Pyrotronics MS-501, and the notification appliances are Wheelock AS.
Moral of the story: Never conduct a fire drill during "Friends".
But what if a real fire happened when "Friends" was on?
jemerson722 lol
I remember this. Embarrassingly, I remember being too young the very first time I watched this a long time ago.
Awesome you posted this. I had the original file from your site on my computer for years.
Glad you liked it! This was originally recorded on VHS, and since this was one of the clips that I had wanted to upgrade for a while, I converted it when I got a new VCR/DVD recorder.
Ben Schumin
The code 3 sounds rather fast. One of my elementary schools had a rather odd setup: an EST Quickstart Panel, 270-SPO Pull Stations, EST Smoke/Heat Detectors, and really weird alarms: Wheelock MT Horns on Wheelock RSSP Strobe Plates! It seems like they put those in any building that had light/strobe plates on an older system. For example, one school has a Simplex 4010, with 2099-9754 Pulls, and the same Wheelock Alarm setup. It used to have Simplex 2901-9838 Horns, a couple 4050s, and a mix of 2903-9101 Strobe Plates and 4050-80 Light Plates. Which is kind of odd, because the Middle School next to it had a Simplex 4002 with 2901-9720 Bells! They were since replaced with a 4100ES system, 4099 Pulls, and Truealert ES Horn/strobes, the second building in the city to get those alarms, and the first school. Sorry for the long comment.
Wow. This was exactly one day after I was born, and at the same collage my mom and dad went to.
You young AF!
I was 4 months 6 days
@@landonlefevre5167 You young AF!
I was 3 months 27 days old
This is my birthday.
2001-2008 was hard for life to exist
this was on my 1st birthday 😂
u young af!
This was before I was alive
Your 7...
Where I go to school at now the middle school has Gentex Commander 3's and the pull stations are Firelite BG-12. In the high school we have Firelite BG-12 pull stations with either Firelite or Wheelock voice evacuation.
*Pulls fire alarm* 30 seconds later... *Fire alarm goes off*
i never knew the Wheelock AS was that old
Wheelock AS was originally from the nineties.
Hmmm.. reminds me of the Spectralert Classic
Ah. The aesthetic of tape videos. Btw I read your internet journal. Some cool stuff in there.
goood job with the drill
Great to see everyone cooperate, and maybe this video could be showed to young kids learning about safety procedures. A great example of what NOT to do would be in the Simpsons with the fire dril at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, where Homer ran to his cubicle and thought about what picture to take and Lenny waited for the coffee machine to be full and that guy ran in circles yelling "fire fire fire" and another one using an extinguisher as a weapon.
4:23 the fire alarm has an upset tummy lol
Damn, I had these alarms and pulls. I'm old.
Not really. These devices are still common.
Yeah, we have em at my school. Scare the crap out of me every time we have a fire drill cuz my school conducts surprise drills
TuanyKeyz Actually, The Wheelock AS came out in 1998. And it used in elementary schools and middle schools for people to get the message that theres a fire in the building
Gavin Ross same here
Awesome congrats
I do wonder if there are older fire alarm videos then this
this dude looks cool
0:06
I'm surprised i never knew that those are excised when i was a kid wow
funny how they are taking their time, I thought it would be a steady stream of people :D
Welcome to college. It's not like in K-12 education, where they evacuate quickly. There is no hurry.
@@SchuminWeb I see
so if Potomac was on fire for real, they'd be like; oh K, let's hang around and leave when we're ready :D
I am in college and luckily I've experienced no fire drills in any of my classes, but unlike THEM; I take fire alarms seriously and evacuate immediately. it must be deafening in Potomac with all the ASs going off. I am super sensitive to loud sounds so I have to wear earmuffs.
Wheelock AS
Britton Heaps I couldn't tell.
I heard a Wheelock MT in bell.
That was a door alarm
oh my gosh this was filmed days after I was born
2:14
From what it looks like did you pull the lever down some and then it stops and you have to pull it down again and hold it for the alarm to go off? It looks like you have to pull it out and then down in two steps?
Why did it not beep the first time you pulled it and the Strobe lights flashed once and you had to pull it down again and hold it?
Thanks
It did everything that it was supposed to the first time, and so the second one was unnecessary. We expected instant alarm, and not that it had to do its thing first before going into alarm.
That was 5 days before I was born in the same Month and year
were you an RA?
Yes.
2:14 did you say sh*t
Who are you with? and i wish i could here the Wheelock AS in person in my school I have systemsensors spectralert advances
We had weatherproof AS alarms outside at my school, and even out there it's pretty painful to hear.
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Quentin Richards yep
Houston Railfanning u wouldn’t like it they had these in my 5th grade class it traumatized me everytime
This was the wheelock AS
My birthday
The exit door alarms sound like Wheelock MT horns set to bell
Gary Beltz You are correct. That is exactly what it is.
so are they like a general notification? Does it notifiy you that the fire drill is over and you may escort back inside the building?
FireAlarmEnthusiastfromTexas no exit door alarms are used to notify people that the fire door exits have been opened. Normally the doors are locked and you have to push and hold on the panic bar for 15 seconds then the lock releases which triggers just the door alarm but the locks are electronic and need constant power. They are tied into the fire alarm system when the alarm goes off power is dropped to the locks which causes the doors to immediately be unlocked and of course setting off the alarm
Gary Beltz Actually, these were used to indicate that the door had been propped open for too long. If the door remained open for longer than a designated time (I don't remember what the threshold was, maybe 30 seconds), then the alarm would sound, and continue to sound until the door was closed.
This system must've been very new at the time
The system was about three years old at the time, and had gotten a new graphic annunciator the summer before. The original annunciator was from Conseps, and the new one was from Hudson-Payne Electronics. During the same update, they also fixed the date on the panel (it had been off by about half a century), and they also fixed the building name on the panel (the building had not yet been named when the panel was originally programmed).
***** so that's an older Wheelock AS. Is that system still up to this day?
Landon Lefevre JMU Facilities Management listed "upgrade fire alarm system" for Potomac Hall on this summer's list, but I don't know if this is just a new panel, or if they're replacing everything.
@@SchuminWeb I just googled pictures of Potomac Hall and saw EST Genesis 😪
2001 3 year old
In my college dorms, we only have fire drills twice a year
Did this actually happen in 2001
Yep.
Nice glasses! Lol
Try to get the best out there in your life
I do believe on that very same day, a Bulgarian train derailed in Russia.
2:15 alarm activation
11:39 alarm silence
Was that a Spectralert Advance?
No - this was made before the SpectrAlert Advance was introduced.
Why would colleges have fire drills
The college buildings are MUCH different than high school buildings
me to
They can catch fire too.
One week later happy smiles will turn to sad faces and tears 9/11 would happen next week after this video
You've got your timelines flipped, I believe. This happened a shade under two months after 9/11.
@@SchuminWeb oh sorry I work for metro and so far its great
@@SchuminWeb I also miss the 1000 series );
4 days before the aftermath of 9/11
This was about two months after 9/11.
@@SchuminWeb i was talking about the incident that happened on November 12th, 2001 which people viewed it as the aftermath of 9/11.
This was posted 1 month after the month of twin towers-
Yep! This was made just shy of two months after 9/11.
2:12