Potomac Hall Fire Drill, November 8, 2001

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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.

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@SomeDudeWithAnExitSign 5 ай бұрын

I do wonder if there are older fire alarm videos then this

@jemerson722 10 жыл бұрын

Moral of the story: Never conduct a fire drill during "Friends".

@firealarmveteran15 6 жыл бұрын

But what if a real fire happened when "Friends" was on?

@EncryptingJava 4 жыл бұрын

jemerson722 lol

@polsi7491 5 жыл бұрын

i never knew the Wheelock AS was that old

@SchuminWeb 5 жыл бұрын

Wheelock AS was originally from the nineties.

@polsi7491 5 жыл бұрын

Hmmm.. reminds me of the Spectralert Classic

@chancesanderson7097 9 жыл бұрын

Wow. This was exactly one day after I was born, and at the same collage my mom and dad went to.

@RoundenBrown 5 жыл бұрын

You young AF!

@landonlefevre5167 5 жыл бұрын

I was 4 months 6 days

@RoundenBrown 5 жыл бұрын

@@landonlefevre5167 You young AF!

@elevatorsbylexi 4 жыл бұрын

I was 3 months 27 days old

@toptier4488 2 жыл бұрын

This is my birthday.

@NLind 10 жыл бұрын

Awesome you posted this. I had the original file from your site on my computer for years.

@SchuminWeb 10 жыл бұрын

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.

@passengerGary 7 жыл бұрын

Ben Schumin

@80230a 6 жыл бұрын

I heard a Wheelock MT in bell.

@captainchris2016 Жыл бұрын

That was a door alarm

@Twentythree33 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@firealarmveteran15 6 жыл бұрын

I remember this. Embarrassingly, I remember being too young the very first time I watched this a long time ago.

@tuanykeyz 9 жыл бұрын

Damn, I had these alarms and pulls. I'm old.

@landonlefevre5167 8 жыл бұрын

Not really. These devices are still common.

@gavinross1794 7 жыл бұрын

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

@ooka7705 6 жыл бұрын

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

@kenziebacklin11 6 жыл бұрын

Gavin Ross same here

@coletonbearden4274 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@SytenixRBX 5 жыл бұрын

2001-2008 was hard for life to exist

@joshtj6865 4 жыл бұрын

goood job with the drill

@amandaelliott2910 6 жыл бұрын

this was on my 1st birthday 😂

@RoundenBrown 5 жыл бұрын

u young af!

@SytenixRBX 4 жыл бұрын

This was before I was alive

@FireTech7 3 жыл бұрын

Your 7...

@toptier4488 2 жыл бұрын

My birthday

@marquishalsell 3 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised i never knew that those are excised when i was a kid wow

@casualgamer24 7 жыл бұрын

this dude looks cool

@bretwalker2295 3 жыл бұрын

0:06

@TheDeltadodge 10 жыл бұрын

Wheelock AS

@freddievanfleet1706 7 жыл бұрын

Britton Heaps I couldn't tell.

@francois2957 10 жыл бұрын

were you an RA?

@SchuminWeb 10 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@michaelgatien4277 5 жыл бұрын

funny how they are taking their time, I thought it would be a steady stream of people :D

@SchuminWeb 5 жыл бұрын

Welcome to college. It's not like in K-12 education, where they evacuate quickly. There is no hurry.

@michaelgatien4277 2 ай бұрын

@@SchuminWeb I see

@michaelgatien4277 2 ай бұрын

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.

@kinkisharyocoasters 10 жыл бұрын

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.

@angeloomata2124 9 жыл бұрын

Awesome congrats

@krafternotebook1189 4 жыл бұрын

2:14 did you say sh*t

@boydalexander4652 3 жыл бұрын

This was the wheelock AS

@zacharyk7225 6 жыл бұрын

Ah. The aesthetic of tape videos. Btw I read your internet journal. Some cool stuff in there.

@blakesfansandmore7251 6 жыл бұрын

2:14

@houstonrailfanning8613 9 жыл бұрын

Who are you with? and i wish i could here the Wheelock AS in person in my school I have systemsensors spectralert advances

@QuentinRichardsthe2012brony 7 жыл бұрын

We had weatherproof AS alarms outside at my school, and even out there it's pretty painful to hear.

@dwaynemclaughlin6851 6 жыл бұрын

@kenziebacklin11 6 жыл бұрын

Quentin Richards yep

@kenziebacklin11 6 жыл бұрын

Houston Railfanning u wouldn’t like it they had these in my 5th grade class it traumatized me everytime

@danielonn2002 5 жыл бұрын

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

@SchuminWeb 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@GaryBeltz 9 жыл бұрын

The exit door alarms sound like Wheelock MT horns set to bell

@SchuminWeb 9 жыл бұрын

Gary Beltz You are correct. That is exactly what it is.

@firealarmsfromsouthtexas125 8 жыл бұрын

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?

@GaryBeltz 8 жыл бұрын

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

@SchuminWeb 8 жыл бұрын

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.

@mr.m4275 3 жыл бұрын

That was 5 days before I was born in the same Month and year

@chloe_reacts_to 2 жыл бұрын

oh my gosh this was filmed days after I was born

@euromatrixkung 9 ай бұрын

*Pulls fire alarm* 30 seconds later... *Fire alarm goes off*

@ryancozier4882 6 жыл бұрын

Did this actually happen in 2001

@bakepatient15 4 жыл бұрын

Yep.

@ooka7705 6 жыл бұрын

4:23 the fire alarm has an upset tummy lol

@justinangelli216 4 жыл бұрын

Was that a Spectralert Advance?

@SchuminWeb 4 жыл бұрын

No - this was made before the SpectrAlert Advance was introduced.

@sherrodchilders30 9 жыл бұрын

Why would colleges have fire drills

@TheRobloxianOfTheWorld 8 жыл бұрын

The college buildings are MUCH different than high school buildings

@kevinromeroromero1105 8 жыл бұрын

me to

@freddievanfleet1706 7 жыл бұрын

They can catch fire too.

@CanadaMapleleaffanvacationinJu 4 жыл бұрын

2001 3 year old

@andreap5196 4 жыл бұрын

Try to get the best out there in your life

@exoticcar5482 10 жыл бұрын

This system must've been very new at the time

@SchuminWeb 10 жыл бұрын

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).

@landonlefevre5167 9 жыл бұрын

***** so that's an older Wheelock AS. Is that system still up to this day?

@SchuminWeb 9 жыл бұрын

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.

@whelenvortexr4 2 жыл бұрын

@@SchuminWeb I just googled pictures of Potomac Hall and saw EST Genesis 😪