The True Cost of a Malicious False Fire Alarm

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11 жыл бұрын

Malicious false fire alarms not only cost money but they can also put your safety at risk. This special report aired on May 15, 2013.

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@Alex-Defatte 10 ай бұрын

I've pulled hundred of pranks in my day but never have I ever pulled an emergency fire alarm. I am proud of that.

@ntxsirenvators8983 6 жыл бұрын

1 it’s a felony 2 wasting fire fighters time. 3 gives people stress attacks 4 prosecutions

@dragonrider4253 Жыл бұрын

I don't know how I did it, but I convinced the school admin to let me pull one for a drill. Apparently it's an older panel without a drill feature. Have to call the fire department because it calls automatically. It's seriously fun to do something that you NEVER do, but without the consequences (apart from having to go outside, in Florida, in the summer.)

@alexandersalarms5380 6 жыл бұрын

we have also had the class clown pull the fire alarm on the second floor of my school at the end of the day one time

@foxmccloud7055 2 жыл бұрын

Ms. Danvers- "For your information, while the fire department was wasting their time responding to this false alarm. A house burned down across town."

@foxmccloud7055 2 жыл бұрын

Ms. Danvers- "Whoever pulled that fire alarm, you're going to BURN IN HELL!!!!"

@jeffk7734 2 жыл бұрын

I knew someone back in elementary school who pulled the alarm right before the end of the day. The next day our principal made him get on the PA and explain what he did and why you shouldn’t do it. This was in the fall of 1985 and my then principal was the type of person who would yell and humiliate you right in public no matter what the situation was. Lunch time was a typical time where something would get him going.

@alexahernandez356 Жыл бұрын

I really don’t do I this is really important

@blueauraretriever 5 жыл бұрын

In NJ you pull the fire alarm you go to the slammer

@Goliathgoosee 11 ай бұрын

“No matter your age you will get punished the same” 2 y/o thinking it will bring life size toy fire trucks:

@tornadochasingsiege Жыл бұрын

They need to show kindergarteners and preschoolers this video.

@DJ-Legend 3 жыл бұрын

In MA it can lead to an on-the-spot arrest with penalties of up to a $1000 fine and up to 2 years behind bars.

@ZakWolf 8 жыл бұрын

Nice shot of the Stopper cover at 3:12! They've been installing them at the high school I used to go to (and my brother now works at)

@andrewalsid1500 6 жыл бұрын

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@davidperry4013 3 жыл бұрын

In the UK it is treated as a civil manner but, you can still get in pretty serious heat by the headmaster (headmaster is the proper term for school principal over there) and they might make you pay that 290£ plus VAT fine.

@dank980 4 жыл бұрын

I like how he just pulls out a big-10

@ElectronicsHikingandJesusTalk 5 жыл бұрын

This is a very serious topic. Thank you for covering this topic! I also made a video on it myself.

@ethansalazar8283 5 жыл бұрын

According to my local fire department they said they went to went to my school 62 times so far this year. A false alarms happens at least once a week. It’s so annoying and no one evacuates ever unless they announce a drill.

@jeffk7734 Жыл бұрын

You’re kidding. Have they found out what has been causing all these false alarms?

@ethansalazar8283 Жыл бұрын

@@jeffk7734 At my old school it was a variety of things from students pulling the alarm to sensor malfunctions. At my new school they seem to have a newer fire alarm system with no pull stations and rare malfunctions.

@jeffk7734 Жыл бұрын

@@ethansalazar8283 that can happen too. I guess that I am old fashion about fire alarms with no pull stations, because what if there was another type of emergency such as a medical emergency or something like that and the closest thing to you would be a pull station? I also don’t believe in these pull stations where if it goes off at say a school, and then a teacher or whoever would need to signal the real thing to get help. A couple of months after I left a school I went to they had so many problems with the system internally that they had to cut the summer program a little short.

@ethansalazar8283 Жыл бұрын

@@jeffk7734 yeah there’s very few pull stations scattered across campus. I’m assuming you’d have to tel a staff member to set off the alarms if the smoke detector doesn’t set off the system already.

@f16fightingfalcon15 3 жыл бұрын

i feel that maybe putting braille on your pull station isn't the greatest idea

@Bashcutter 5 жыл бұрын

My left ear enjoyed this

@lovelylukey18 5 жыл бұрын

I nearly ripped my headphones out and threw them

@boydalexander4652 3 жыл бұрын

The stopper will prevent this from happening because the stopper has a loud alarm to draw immediate attention to the pull station and the person will get caught.

@boydalexander4652 3 жыл бұрын

This is why I will never do anything like this.

@dianer8896 7 жыл бұрын

Micheal Johnson has whats called "alarm fatique."

@sterfry5136 6 жыл бұрын

My right ear enjoyed this

@andrewalsid1500 6 жыл бұрын

Sternalplace2 alt I'm sorry

@dank980 4 жыл бұрын

So did my left ear

@ChatGPT172 2 жыл бұрын

first day of school and someone was mad and then they turned on the fire alarm

@oliversfirealarms8407 4 жыл бұрын

He was holding a BG 10. Lol

@AuroraCrmr 6 жыл бұрын

How in the blazing mind did he get a Johnson controls BG10L

@safealert21soundz41 3 жыл бұрын

I get all of my fire alarms in my collection off of enay

@djangogaffney4030 2 жыл бұрын

It’s actually just a bg10

@TravisRitenourautismvlogs 4 жыл бұрын

harrisonburg is a town in western virginia i would know since i have been there many times before because my relatives are from around that area

@dantestoner6020 Жыл бұрын

It is also an insult to fire alarm collectors like me or others in the fire alarm community

@vintagesimplexfirealarmsof6440 3 жыл бұрын

This happened alot in middle school not much in high school and its a waste of time pulling false alarms

@pizzaparlor2376 5 жыл бұрын

Wow at 3:11 my question is answered

@65E 4 жыл бұрын

The news reporter took BG10 off the wall he Totally did not get that from Amazon

@DavidAStroud 7 жыл бұрын

How did he get a bg10?

@FireAlarmTech7. 7 жыл бұрын

Maybe he bought it on eBay.

@Videokid703 6 жыл бұрын

chief alex 04 amazon is better than scambay/ebay

@Videokid703 6 жыл бұрын

RSS Alarms Scambay

@sethhorst6158 4 жыл бұрын

A BG10 is a very common pullstation, not as common as a T-bar but is still common.

@Gothiczartan 10 жыл бұрын

Hey that is a good idea to find out who pulls down a fire alarm emergency or not!

@nun_ay 11 ай бұрын

why is it only in my left ear

@RootTheLucario 2 жыл бұрын

Pulled the fire alarm when i was 4 or 5 found out the cost the hard way

@bmwman1029 6 жыл бұрын

A way to prevent cooking alarms is to not put a smoke detector in your kitchen but rather in a room across from it high up. And yes just because these cause false alarms does not mean you shouldn’t get one. And I have a friend who has a smoke detector wired up to her alarm system. Her attic caught on fire and the fire department truly is fast because they put the fire out before it could cause damage!

@Videokid703 6 жыл бұрын

BMWman1029 then what if your stove catches fire sometimes smoke isn't fast enough to set off the fire alarms

@davidperry4013 3 жыл бұрын

Or use heat detectors instead of smoke detectors in the kitchen.

@pineappleroad 2 жыл бұрын

I remember that before i moved house 3 years ago, whenever i used the oven it set the smoke detector off There were two detectors, one in the kitchen, and one just outside the kitchen, no other rooms had detectors (but where i live there is only a requirement for 1 detector per floor, and the house only had 1 floor) I started closing the kitchen door and opening the back door (which opened into the kitchen) whenever i used the oven, and that solved the issue

@Alexthebro265 8 жыл бұрын

someone backpack at my school got caught on it and it pulled.

@sunsetrailfan2004 7 жыл бұрын

The mine Boss that happened at my school before

@HalonPoisoning 7 жыл бұрын

Cooldude 265 Did he/she get in trouble even though it was an accident.

@anthonycopter1068 7 жыл бұрын

Cooldude 265 That's not good

@sethhorst6158 4 жыл бұрын

I remember one time while I was in elementary school, the fire alarm system had a malfunction causing to go off while I was at lunch.

@davidperry4013 3 жыл бұрын

If you accidentally pull the fire, you still need to apologize to the fire fighters.

@anthonycopter1068 7 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't worry about giving too much of a consequence to a kindergartner

@anthonycopter1068 7 жыл бұрын

Unless he did it on purpose and he knew what he was doing

@ravioliformuoli1743 5 жыл бұрын

my besties kindergarten bro did it im not sure what happened to him

@jeffk7734 Жыл бұрын

When they are younger and pull it I would think that most of the time they would be scared with the sudden alarm. In an earlier post I mentioned that there was a 5th grader at the time who for whatever reason decided to pull it. A couple of weeks later, the younger brother of one of the first graders was just curious and pulled it. I don’t know if that principal lost it on him, but I don’t think so since he didn’t just stand out there and humiliate that child who was maybe three or four, because like I said if you piss off this principal no matter what or where you would be getting yelled at no matter where you were in the school and no matter who was standing around.