I have received many comments about dry systems we do use them here, however they are installed in areas susceptible to freezing like unheated attics and outdoor applications. They are not installed for general indoor protection as they have a much higher cost more complexity for testing and maintenance and require much more supervision. This does not need a dry system a wet system is completely normal for this application. The soffit space is supposed to be insulated and is indicated as such on the as-builts just never was actually installed.

Wow, that's a really nice looking school! It must be pretty new with how clear that sprinkler water is

Sync on the alarms is 👌 Definitely worth all the work you guys put into fit it in earlier videos

All this equipment and nobody was alerted to respond, only curiousity saved this from becoming a swimming pool for the weekend.

The janitor deserves a raise after this!

I always used to see problems like this (reported as the wrong signal type to monitor, reporting the wrong zone or non-existent zones, etc.) and it was really bad with the addressable systems early on. Graphic annunciators should be a code requirement these days. My 1980 Michigan high school had a graphic annunciator (totally analog though with a shape of the building and colored incandescent lights at specific locations) and then there were sub-annunciators that were located in each zone (just a row of lights up near the ceiling) that drilled down the initiating device further, really advanced for 1978 when it was designed (also had an advanced smoke control system). It worked great for 20 years until they frankensteined it to a digital panel and botched it (graphic annunciator is a dead zombie now). At 2am over a holiday weekend, the fire dept got a signal for a pull station. Entered the school, checked the pull station and it was fine, then left. It was actually triggered by a water flow on the other side of the building due to a frozen pipe. Water ran for 2 days straight. They found nothing was programmed or working right and the next time we had a drill, they had to send us home because they couldn't shut off the horns. Then we had an arson fire (and attempted bombing) just before graduation in 2002. That building was never right afterwards so I hope yours is dried out and the problems are fixed.

2:12 That is a nice ass school tho Wtffff the entrance looks like a damn hotel😭😭

"A high school in western Canada has recently installed an indoor swimming pool..."

No doubt about it, that early January cold snap was brutal. -10 is definitely not what our island is used to; so many burst pipes across town and even one of the ferries. The School District is sure lucky to have your expertise and experience in this case which no doubt helped prevent a far worse outcome. Excellent work Nic.

Great response Nic, you did amazing! Don't ever stop what you're doing cause you're doing it amazingly.

I am glad you knew what to do agin I will say you preformed well in a high stress situation I don't think I could have done it !!!

Oh and btw, great video. You did an awesome job as cameraman, using text to explain what is going on, and overall did a 10/10 job for showing us what happened that day. I would hire you as my employee any day.

I got to say as a long time fan supporter and subscriber that nic has more than come along way in a really good way 😊😊😊

That sucks man. We had temps reach -23f / -30c and didn't go above 0f / -18c for 3 days and pipes were bursting all over town in mid January. Grateful we didn't have any problems here.

nic this would give me nightmares, I'm custodian/maintance and can tell you this would not be a fun fixing. rip and rebuild time.

My OCD got crazy just like yours with the labels up-side down :)

loving the videos they really are getting more and more pro by the day

Well done for getting to the problem fast

Well done Nic!

Wish I found this video earlier. At a previous job a car clipped a sprinkler pipe in a parking garage, setting off flow alarms and triggering a general fire alarm. People were evacuated and were subsequently confused as to why the level of response was needed. Fun times

Ah ya, we played this game at work twice this winter... Luckily where we had problems it caused minimal damage and there were floor drains present.

Great video, waiting for part 2 now teased on Instagram

yes thanks Nic I was waiting for this bro

This happened today at the other high school across town from mine during the school day. They had to stand outside for an hour, and then we're eventually allowed to go back in or leave, but if their class was in the area where the pipe burst or directly below it, they had to go to the school's performing arts center for the rest of the day.

Another great video

I had a main sprinkler line burst in my condo building a few years back setting off everything the same way in the video, 3 condo units were flooded and lots of the walls\floor and part of the hallway needed to be replaced. Lucky it was on ground floor. This happened during that -20 winter we had

i wish you and you'r school best recovery's

Need to get antifreeze in certain zones of the school or something. Nice work as well. Good job

Man y’all have a nice school. Wish the schools I went to as kid here in Houston looked nice like that. They looked like a run down prison.

Im south of the border in WA. The Fraser River outflow winds hammered us with -30°c temps. I was Wondering how you guys faired with frigid temps couple weeks back. Our local fire departments were responding to water flow alarms frequently

As much as it would have been a better move to drain the system right after shutting the control valve (and me internally screaming as you forgot), what you did is actually not uncommon - from other stories I've heard people only being able to shut the PIVs or just didn't even bother shutting the sprinkler system off over a weekend. Draining a system was banged into my head when I was doing ITM training with risers, and I bet that's not common. Lesson learned, next time it happens you know to drain the pipes. :)

That's a really nice water feature

In the words of Phil swift-“Now THATS a LOTTA DAMAGE”

Did one of the pipes blow up or something cause if you did why did it turn on the water module that sprays water everywhere

Rip ears. those alarms are probably 90 db or louder. Especially the spectra alert advances are quite loud

The sound of the fire alarm is my favorite fire alarm sound. I love it. I believe the sound of the fire alarm is the greatest alarm sound ever ❤️👍😎💯😀😍

You are very good with the blurring bet that takes a long tine

Congratulations you look like you performed excellent in a high stress situation I don't think I could have done that I am gladden I employed by a grocery store

As for the pressurization fans in the addition not shutting down with the toggle switch when you flipped it. I think you should tell someone that they should program that so it does so along with the make-up air doors if you already didn't.

Any updates on the repairs or the test where you pulled the alarm to see what the monitoring company did?

Getting to school in a timely manner is key

Can you film a tutorial on how to convert BG-12LX to BG-12L

Ha, funny thing, this exact same thing happened at my high school. Different one, but still a funny coincidence.

As a Volunteer firefighter ive responded to my fair share of water flow activations. I was just wondering that if the system detected a water flow then why didn't it send it over to the dispatch and only showed it as a trouble?

I see your point

Does the police department roll for alarm activations in your area?

reminds me of the time a student got his lanyard stuck on a sprinkler in my HS days. story goes that instead of waiting for the janitor to retrieve it (he spotted the situation and left to grab a ladder), student just tugged on it and away it went. entire floor was flooded in that section of school. i was in the last classroom before that section started.

It would be an understatement to say that anyone who has a mortal phobia of the fire alarm must not get a job in firefighting...

This is why fire sprinkler pipes should be insulated in addition to the normal insulation. The make-up air system bringing in cold air could freeze more pipes that are normally inside the insulated envelope of the building. If they were insulated there would be less chance of bursting.

I'm guessing trace heating would be incredibly expensive for sprinkler pipes... our static caravan has it, but only for about 30ft of piping to head into the van.

Nic are you going to have an over on the other sprinkler that went off that went off outside

Wow the school has a new pool!

Are the relief fans on? what is that fan noise when you get to the Atrium at 2:11?

Ya yes I’ve also have played the game of Broken sprinkler pipes but mine was due to a forklift driver hitting a head And 4/6 of the city’s fire trucks responding to my work

So the pipe has turn the pipes and electric off

Few questions: why didnt you guys silence the alarm when you got there? Why would the system report as a trouble to central monitoring vs an alarm? They should of had better insulation for the pipes knowing its an area prone to freezing

Wow, i hope they are fixing it..

Interestingly enough, my schools new building/gym a sprinkler head burst and set off the fire alarms in our new gym and the Sandwich Fire Department had to respond. So something very similar happened 😆

Same thing to my sister school where she a 4k aid there a sprinkler that burst because of the cold snap

This happened at my job back in February, there's a heater in the riser room meant to keep the pipes from freezing, but apparently it stopped working, and one of the valves burst because of it, imagine all of us running around trying to find what caused the alarm to go off cause none of us really knew what "Water flow (air)" meant on the panel XD

Rest in peace wallet for possible water damage

Did you finally get the alarms synced?

had anything else happend to this secondary school? and is there gonna be a video about that elementry or middle school?

Stupid question- being there wasnt actually a fire and there doesnt appear be any students/staff in the building, why do not silence the alarm? I dont get how anyone can concentrate or focus with that going off. Its loud on camera, I can only imagine how loud it is in person.

You should go into a career in fire science, as you're knowledgeable about fire alarm systems and related substructures. BTW: Is there a "lock out, tag out" system for that electrical panel so those outlets are not reactivated until the electrician can verify them safe? Just curious.

Very unfortunate that the pipes burst, thankfully wet systems aren’t too common here anymore, they’re all air pressurised dry systems with a special valve that releases water once the air in the system is depressurised which would be caused by a popped sprinkler head

Here in Calgary. CFD would’ve left as soon as they found no fires

Was that winter? If it was, then that's the reason why the pipes burst!

Why did the fire alarm send a trouble signal and not an alarm signal to the monitoring company? Is it Point ID to the monitoring company?

@NIC'S-SYSTEMS & ELECTRIC did the secondary school have this issue too?

How did that happen

Can bath with these water?

I'm surprised to see a school with an outfitted Industrial Arts area.

Nick are you gonna start sprinkler system in your house?

I noticed the fire alarms don't have the strobes, maybe they can fix that sometime so it will make it easier and more noticeable for when hosting a fire drill or when an actual fire begins.

My high school I do HVAC for when it first opened, for some reason the people who put the sprinklers in put a damn sprinkler in the freezer 🤦 let’s say the pipe burst inside the freezer, set the fire alarm off and made an awful mess. The fire alarm shut the whole HVAC system down so I had to reset everything including the chiller. Whoever thought it was a good idea to put a sprinkler in the freezer was probably the apprentice

Would That Part Of The School Have To Be Demolished Or That Part Is Gonna Be Repaired With New Ceiling Tiles And Some New Wall Repairs

Thats a lotta damage

Sheesh, a lot of water

At least you know the system works

Shame all this damage happened to such a new and nice looking school. Did this happen because it froze?

Oh my God those fire alarms with the things that go Bing Bing Bing against the metal those are so annoying there’s a wild goat I was in Westhaven tomorrow and it went off because of Carol Karen

Dont understand how a pipe would freeze and burst in a modern commercial building like this, especially where cold temperatures are not exactly rare

when was the last full test?

Wow

Question; if that kind of weather is common in Canada, why are schools not built better to protect against pipes bursting?

How'd you get the notification it went off?

Are there any reasons that they don’t use a dry system

No Knox box with a master key? You clip in with like 80 keys is craaaazy lol

Why didn't they receive the waterflow signal? That's a little crazy

Something that's frozen over made the sprkler head pop

Why don’t you have more subs 😅😂

This makes me wonder what goes on at my high school after hours and during the weekends lol!!

I’m kind of concerned what happened right there?!😮

I program logic controls and CO (telecom) alarms for a living. Drives me nuts to see a lack of technical intervention here. We have the tech! That system knows enough to know there's not actually an active fire... yet smoke extraction, general siren, and active flows!! Common! Now we have a situation where a "building protection" system is damaging a building. And to think with all those elements active the system called out only a TRBL?? That's a bad programming error 😩

how did the valve get activated

Why did it take the staff so long to call FD? If the alarms go off and it’s a sunday then obviously it’s something suspicious that needs to be investigated

All testing you guys have done you make sure the Montioring service gets a full alarm that's part of your test your lucky whole building good of gone up in fire or flood

Nic is the fire alarm panel in your house, technically a 640 because of the cabinet

POV:I was in the high school at the time and I was near the alarm panel Me: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAuWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA TEACHER HOLD MEEEEEE *wails in terror and fear* Also I’m short and light weight so the teacher would be able to hold me