Drove past there today, it’s very sad to see the condition the building is in now. Even as it rots away, you can still see the the beauty it has. The front exterior is extremely gorgeous, all the terra cotta medallions and nice masonry work really catch my eye. There are very few schools left that were designed by architect M.M Konarski. At one time there were 18 school buildings he designed that had those terra cotta medallions and beautiful masonry work on their facades. Now there’s only 4 left and 3/4 are completely abandoned, the only one still in use is North High. When they sold these schools, I wish they would’ve made sure these buildings were sold to qualified buyers that had the capital and a solid plan for them. Most of these buildings were unfortunately purchased for tax-write offs. Every building they sold is just sitting and rotting. It’s depressing to watch these historical school buildings fall into disrepair as they had a lot of potential to be adaptively reused and were still solid. Hotchkiss was in decent shape when it was up for auction but now it’s sadly too far gone, whenever they demo it, I just hope all those medallions can be salvaged.

I love watching old electromechanical and mechanical tech work! Simplicity at its finest!

There’s something about these old alarms that make me wish I went to an older school. I really love your videos

Always love watching your videos! So cool to see that Ohio still has many of these panels in operation. I live in Ontario, Canada, and we hardly have any rare systems, let alone any codes ones. All the schools in my area got upgraded in 2003-2005 with new systems, only a select few remain, and I'm trying my hardest to preserve them.

Excellent! Adding the walk-through and brief history of the building in addition to the demonstration provides a context to better understand the systems that are there and their evolution through the years. Seems like 4-4-4 was the temporal code of the mid-20th century - very common with the non-coded systems that didn't do straight march time.

Another awesome demonstration from an old school! There's actually an old school in my area that's been abandoned for years (owned by a real estate firm after the district shut the schools down in the 90's - one of them was built in the 1920's, and the other adjacent to it was built in the 50's) that I might ask the local government if I can salvage the alarms from because they're going to be demolishing both schools to make way for a housing development.

These bells sound beautiful!

I've noticed that on these old systems, you rarely see replacement parts. I think it is because they were so good quality. BTW, thanks for the video!

Awesome piece of American Fire Safety devices.

How about not tearing down the building giving a full detail for retail and reopening as either a school or something else I hate it when old world buildings are destroyed

Nice vintage boilers

I love the old bells they used to have them at my school but got replaced by wheelocks and mini miz horns

That’s a pretty neat school building. Also that fire alarm relay system is interesting according to those terrifying EST or System sensor systems they have at my schools that I am terrified of the noise. Bell sounds I much prefer over horns.

It's a damn shame that your not able to make this kind of content regularly. These school systems don't care about their old schools enough. Where I'm from, all the old school were turned into community complexes. One particular school now houses a brewery, axe throwing place, among other things.

The bells are switched on & off by mercury in a glass tube, awesome!

that trouble bell is loud as hell

that was cool how you showed how the fire pull stations worked by breaking the glass too

They don't technically use explosives to demolish these schools as they mostly use the excavators, and sledgehammers to tear them down. So typically if the old boilers are going down with the building they will likely have to be removed by crane after the school is demolished, and the rubble cleared.

I hate Vandals!!!! They destroy everything!!!! Last few times I passed this school from Interstate 76, I noticed the windows were busted. That sucks the fire alarm system is gone, my mom tried to get me the Bell in the boiler room when I was 14, which that's how old I was when this video was uploaded. The good news is, I have 2 10" Autocall Single Stroke bells already, there's even a video of it on my channel

Those old coal boilers really creep me out. The entire boiler room really does that...

I just realized the brand for those boilers is Heggie-Simplex. Kind of a coincidence.

I hope the fire alarm system will be saved. It's such a shame that they are going to demolish this old building.

11:12 you can see they used a mercury switch for the bell encoding wheel! very cool!

In-depth video of a beautiful, old building. It's sad they plan to tear it down.

What a waste for a sturdy building. I'm glad you're saving the system as always. I'd like to see a video pulling the trip bells and in the process of removing the system

I hope you can get the old alarms from it. Including the control box.

This is only for entertainment, not for negetivity, this is my skit on the Vandals: Derek the Vandal: Hey Buster, let's go break into Hotchkiss Elementary!!! Buster: Great idea, Derek!! (They get into the building) Buster: Wow!!!! Look at this place!!! Derek: I know right?, hey, what's this red box with the hammer do? (He swings it up & the glass breaks) Trouble Bell: BRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!! Buster: Oh wow!! An old Fire Alarm System!!! 10" Autocall Single Stroke Bells: DING DING DING DING!!! Buster: Let's go steal the fire alarm system!!!! Derek: Yeah! Let's do it!!!! (They steal the panel & the bells) Derek: you're coming with me Single Stroke Bell!! 10" Autocall Single Stroke Bell in the boiler room: Don't steal me!!!!! I didn't do anything!!! I'm Frozen Fan 765's favorite alarm in this building because of my beautiful sound!!! Buster: That's because the acoustics affects the sound of you Derek: Let's go!!!! 10" Autocall Bell in the boiler room: NOOOOOOOO!!!!! Me ( Frozen Fan 765): Wow!!!! I can't believe those stupid vandals got into the building, I really wanted to bell in the boiler room My Girlfriend: That sucks, I really liked the 10" Autocall bell in the boiler room too

The first location of the Caroline Brevard grammar school in downtown Tallahassee Florida had a fire alarm system similar to this.

Honestly they should make one of these schools into a museum for Fire Alarm Notation.

Okay just wanted to know and that's cool you're taking them to a fire alarm Museum

My district is sadly in the process of replacing its old Autocall bell systems and some old Simplex systems with new FireLite/System Sensor L Series speaker strobes.

This is so cool! I love your channel alot

Which Fire Alarms are still in the Building? Not trying to be rude at all & as well as the one in the video of Firestone Park Elementary's System. I'm just curious because if the one in the boiler room is still there, I'll be happy to preserve her from being scrapped or I'll try to take what ever is in the building

11:08 Break the glass and the alarm will go off!

You can find some of the old horns and bells on eBay :)

my school has these alarms there super suprising

very interesting...

Did you save that system before it was demolished?

I was in this school omg

Keep up the good work on KZfaq mate am a big fan of u do a rally good job on here mate hove a good day mate from Greg Bouchard

I went to an abandoned school in my city and now it's getting demolished. Should've checked out the fire alarm system there

Nice vid! I've always wondered what those light bulbs next to the trouble bells were for. Interesting how this system will stop after 4 rounds of code whereas IBM systems (at least from what I'm told) will keep going as long as the circuits are active. Did you end up replacing the glass in the pull, or did you just abandon the system as-is?

I wonder if somebody could create a temporal 3 code wheel to make the system "up-to-audible-code".

I'm curious of a couple things with this system, one is what in the panel senses four rounds and makes it time out and stop on its own without resetting the pull box? I know there's no electronics here due to its age and second, what happens after it has timed out and the pull box hasn't been reset yet? Does it cause a trouble signal? Can the button be pushed back in for a few seconds and released to set it off again? I'm sure it's simple engineering lol that's what's nice about these old systems, is their simplicity...

Why couldn't you set it off with the pull rod?

Which would be more painful to the ears, a 6/8/10 inch bell (vibrating OR single stroke) or a single/dual projector vibrating horn?

If the school wanted to, is it possible to take the timer thing out so that the bells keep ringing instead of just going 4 rounds?

If the alarm stops after one minute in a fire would you have to keep pulling the fire alarm?

I notice that the 10" Autocall bell at 12:19 sounds very different than the ones at 7:37 & 8:30. I love the way the one in the Boiler room sounds, why does it sound different than the ones in the Hallway?

Do u know any other schools that have single stroke bells in them that u could demonstrate? I like single stroke bells. My high school had them but it was a standard electric time company system. The bells were coded so that each area of the school had its own code

Looks like something from "A Nightmare On Elm Street".

Nice video!

Was that the same pull station from the videos: old fire alarm system and case elementary fire alarm?

Does anyone know about when boilers were largely replaced with forced air?

The bells are shrill. But the horns are louder.

Do you have a favorite Fire Alarm in this building? My favorite is the 10" Autocall bell in the Boiler Room

Oh, those are autocall pull stations and different systems oh. Are there vintage in there

Where are all the 10" Autocall Bells located in this Building? I know they're in the Hallway & the Boiler room

Where do you get a triangular key like that?

Akron Ohio... demolishing more old buildings like always

Why didn’t you pull the rod I wanted to hear the Manuel trip bell

Is this a coded auto call?

Keep up there good work on here mate keep up there good work on KZfaq am good here mate keep up there good work on KZfaq mate

Could u save those auto call pull and but a couple on eBay? Because I would love one of those in my system

I've found one of those pull stations on EBAY AND IT'S IN GOOD CONDITION AND IT'S GOT WHITE PAINT ON THE LETTERING SO I ADDED THE PULL STATION TO MY WATCH LIST , BUT I DO HAVE QUICK QUESTION ABOUT IT THE LISTING SAID THAT IT WAS TRIPED AND THERE'S NO GLASS WITH IT SO IF I GET THE PULL STATION IS THERE A WAY TO OBTAIN THE GLASS FOR THE PULL STATION IN CASE I GET A PANEL?

Can you use a battery with the Autocall to provide backup in case of power going out like the modern panels?

Was this school demolished?

Could you please rescue the fire alarm system and the exit sign and emergency lights

Have you gotten the alarms from here?

Demolished?

Do you guys ever get 10” single stroke code 3?? If you do try to make a video on them!!

Were the fire alarms tested between the school's closure and his video recording then after this recording?

How do you not get in trouble for doing this? It's kinda cool but weird!

why is there a bell in 10:35? Is it the same bells as the ones near the rods?

I recently came across one of these. Do you happen to know the termainal layouts?

What is the glass ball of lightning below the code wheel?

Are those single stroke bells or auto call

Could the fire alarm activated from the panel

When the phone rings

I know this is of subject, but what are the boilers for? Heating?

Did you save the bells

That another *big* elementary school

was the school taken down already

is there any way i could get one of the single stroke bells possibly i looked all over the internet and i couldn't find any time of single stroke bell

The codewheel doesn't seem to be turning very smoothly

Do you ever get to keep the panels?

You should do your old high school

Since it's 1800 school

Why did they close the school

Do they have raidter heaters

how bad is the school's current condition?

Is it still standing?!

Wtf how does this place have power still

Was this the only school that had the hinge knocker or hammer to activate the alarm

Has this place been demolished yet?

that motor sounds like a car xD

Is this school still closed as of this writing?

Okay thank you are you going are you going to give the devices away

omg it has light bulbs