RETARDED FIREALARMS!!

Do you also live in a apartment where the firealarm is going on FOR THE WHOLE BLOCK like all the time when there actually is no fire at all??? We just had one in the morning and right now (GOD DAMN IT's 3.30am!!!). I mean how stupid are they to let it go with no reason??? If there will ever be a real fire nobody is going to aknowledge it anymore-.- I still don't know the reason for all those false alarms. So glad I'm moving out soon from this block...and it's still rining in a defening sound for over 10 minutes.

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Hmm, not a fire alarm, but the goons across the road have a Hamburgler alarm system thing that goes off at insane hours every other day. It's like stray cats, cars driving by and elephants eating peanuts in a zoo somewhere in another country set the bloody thing off. One day they'll actually get robbed and nobody is gonna give two shits.

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I no longer eat toast as my toaster is pretty retarded and would burn one side of the bread, yet leave the other side white as white. This burning sensation set the fire alarm off and it would continue to ring for about half an hour before it would stop. It's too hard on the ears.

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When I used to live in residence on campus, the fire alarm going off was a near-daily occurence. If I remember right, for the 2 semesters I was there (september to may), the alarm went off 100+ times.

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In my old apartment building, the alarm would go off once a month or so, and even though I lived on the 8th floor, I never evacuated, because once you left the building, the firemen wouldn't let you go back in. I just checked the hallway and looked outside for smoke, and went back to whatever I was doing.

My current apartment just has a smoke detector, so there aren't any building-wide false alarms. I have to unplug the detector when I cook fish, though, or it goes off.

I was speaking idiomatically.

In my dorm corridor, we have a fire bell once every two weeks - usually because someone fucks up the toaster. Although towards the end of the summer term it was going off regularly for no real reason, and only for maybe 20 seconds at a time. It was pretty irksome.

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Originally Posted by Locke

When I used to live in residence on campus, the fire alarm going off was a near-daily occurence. If I remember right, for the 2 semesters I was there (september to may), the alarm went off 100+ times.

I live in one of the nicest dorms on campus now, but I hear about poor souls who live in the crappy dorms all the time. The fire alarms in Met. are so tempermental that almost anything can set them off. The girls living there have had to evacuate at 3 a.m. because someone took a shower. They had to evacuate many times because someone would spray hairspray, perfume, or even deodorizer within their dormroom. There were cases of toasters, hairdryers, and I think even a vaccuum. I know in my dorm the alarm goes off whenever the gases in the basement are off-balance (have no clue how or why, but it just does).


During my freshman year, I was placed in one of the oldest dorms on campus. The fire alarm would go off at crazy times, such as 12:30 A.M. in December while everyone was dressed in their nightwear because someone decided to make cookies. Rumor has it that the people on the fourth floor would only have 2 minutes when the siren went off to leave the building (no elevators) or else their whole floor would collapse if there was a real fire.

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When I'm living in my dorm, lol, a 3:30am fire alarm wouldn't bother me as much because I'd still be awake .

However they seemed to like to have them @ 10:00am, and only on the days I was sleeping, like Tuesdays (no classes) or Saturdays.

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We had the fire alarm go off in our building the other day at work. It was a simple drill, but I definitely believe that nobody should ignore these things. Drills are necessary every once in a while to remind people of where the exits are, etc... I don't see why the OP is so pissy about this.

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Originally Posted by Mucknuggle

We had the fire alarm go off in our building the other day at work. It was a simple drill, but I definitely believe that nobody should ignore these things. Drills are necessary every once in a while to remind people of where the exits are, etc... I don't see why the OP is so pissy about this.

They are important, but when you have a building who has a tempermental fire alarm that goes off every other day if not everyday then it becomes annoying (especially during finals). The Met. dorm I mentioned earlier once had their fire alarm go off seven times in one day. I think it was in late November or early December. Dorms are normally suppose to have drills twice a semester.

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I hate Fire Drills. The ones where they make No sense at all. My school decided to have a Fire Drill in the rain. If it's raining there shouldn't be a fire. It was all too retarded.

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I was at school once and we had a firedrill. first time they had a drill with the new system they installed.

all we heard over the loudspeaker was "Warning! there has been a report of an emergency. please proceed camly to the nearest exit and leave the building."

no one thought it was for real...

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a couple of years ago people at our school kept settins fires in the bathrooms. it was really annoying because they seemed to allways do it on rainy days...

I was speaking idiomatically.

I'm sure that a fire alarm going off in a public building - when it shouldn't be going off - is illegal. You could probably get it fixed pretty quickly with a call to the right people. I'm not sure who it would be. Presumably whatever organization deals with the fire safety of buildings. And you live in Amuricca, your complaining about it will be a critical hit; super effective.

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I remember back at secondary school (high school) when the school went under refurbishment. New things were fitted and installed including fire alarms, however there was a problem with them as they would go off frequently for odd reasons. It took a while to sort this problem out and it was costing the school a lot of money for the fire brigade service. Pupils didn't mind it though, we spent a lot of time outside chatting.

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I lost count of how many times it went off in the dorms when I was in college.

But during one routine drag your ass out of bed at 2AM scenario, something was different. There was smoke all the way down the hall. Apparantly somebody tipped over a candle onto a recliner and WHOOSH. You could smell smoke for a week. The door across the hall was completely black.

Made me think twice about them.

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They upgraded all of the buildings in my high school during my junior year and built a few new ones. One day during senior year, there was an acutal fire in the jewelry making class two doors down from my class room, and the alarms went off in the new building, but not the building I was in. And they didn't stop going off until halfway through the next period. The noise was so annoying that most teachers taped tissue over the alarm so that we could get on with class.

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I live in an apartment, so we get more fire alarms than usual. It's really annoying when we do get it, because it's usually in the middle of the night or some other weird time like in the early morning. The only explanation for one of the times was that a spare mattress in storage or something caught on fire.

One time we had the fire alarm go off almost three consecutive times! The fire department almost didn't bother the last time, leaving our ears to be damaged instead of our property, by the apparent "fire". I tried to sleep through it, and the scary part was that I did for a brief while.

In high schools, fire alarms were welcome, although wrong. The morons pulled it once or twice after the initial time, making us get out of class multiple times in a day, on the rare occasions we got them. We complained when it was raining outside/freezing cold and we had to stand away or "we'd be engulfed by the [invisible] flames!"

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I hate fire alarms and smoke detectors.

There's not much you can do about a fire alarm in an apartment or school aside from get used to the annoying noise. I recall my high school's alarm would go off almost every day and by law the fire department was obligated to show up, and regardless of emergency or not the school had to pay em ;o

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Well, no apartment, but there was this one time, at band camp....

No, seriously. It was the beginning of Thanksgiving break and the fire alarm went off. Unfortunately, there were no RA's on call (the one that was supposed to be on call had gone to parts unknown) and the RA is the one that usually calls the fire department.

Finally, someone calls them in. One problem. No one knows where to turn the damn thing off. So, in goes my roommate's boyfriend along with one of the fire marshalls to try to figure the thing out. Meanwhile, my roommate is sick with what I assume was the flu. And it's cold out (about 8pm by that time).

Needless to say...not fun.

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My most memorable fire alarm experiences tend to revolve around the time I lived in the university dorms and the RAs practiced drills at some of the most unbelievable times:

1. 7:00 AM when some of us were still asleep.

2. Random moments in the afternoon, which I am usually away at the time and often walk up to a large group of students standing outside the dorms for no particular reason.

3. Late night. And I'm sure some of you have had experienced the indignity of having the fire drill occur while taking a shower. In my case 12:30 AM and in October which made it rather chilly. I was joined by four others who had the talent of bad timing.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Dullenplain

3. Late night. And I'm sure some of you have had experienced the indignity of having the fire drill occur while taking a shower. In my case 12:30 AM and in October which made it rather chilly. I was joined by four others who had the talent of bad timing.

Yes, I was one of those people who was once caught in the shower. Luckily, I was about finished so I rushed to get dressed and went outside. However, when we had the 12:30 AM one during December, I was unloading my last load of laundry from the dryer and I had finished taking a shower maybe 1/2 hour ago.

This was the incident that involved someone burning cookies. I went outside in my nightshirt and shorts and was embarrassed since we lived next door to a boy's dormitory and there had been some males visiting in the guest lounge. There was this one heavy-set girl who said, "I'm so lucky that I was too lazy to take off my pants before I went to bed. If I had, I would have ran out here wearing nothing but my shirt and a thong in front of all these boys." She was the one that told me about the top floor's 2 minute rule and I am a buddy of the roommate she was staying with at the time.

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Fire alarms in dorms = not funny. Mostly burnt popcorn or some smart ass trying to cook something to impress the whole floor or other (or for some people he/she is trying to hit on to grab baked goods from). And I hate those kids who suffocate us with a hall smelling of weed brownies for hours.

I can name a couple bad experiences with fire alarm retards. Once I was in the shower. My suitemate ran in and shouted, "Is someone showering?!" Of course I knew the alarm was ringing, but did I give a crap? Anyway, with much persuasion, I got out and proceeded to quickly dress when it turned off.

Another example, it was winter and I don't normally wear a lot indoors since I blast the heat. Fire alarm rang, I went out just grabbing my sweatshirt, and I'm out there with everyone else freezing their asses off because some lame-o brought in a smoke machine in the dorm. Who the crap? Seriously... someone should break that guy's knees.

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Originally Posted by Dee

Another example, it was winter and I don't normally wear a lot indoors....

Oh, yes. See, I'm not a fan of sneakers. Never have been. I prefer sandals. So, my first instinct is to grab my sandles and shove them on. Which is what I normally did when I didn't go barefoot if I was just staying inside the dorm.

Now, picture a young student, blearily being woken up by the fire alarm, in the middle of winter (with several inches of snow).

Needless to say, my feet were generally ice cubes by the time I got to go back in.

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The good ol trials and tribulations of living in college residence.

They use to pull the fire alarm nonsense at the worse possible times out of the 4 years I'm living in residence at my university. You'd never get these fire alarms when it was a nice day; its either late in the night or early in the morning with the worse weather imaginable. Anywhere from 2:00 am to 6:00 am in the morning If you lived on any of the upperfloors, you'd literally have to be outside within three minutes; the RA's would knock on your room doors as loud as they could.

I can remember being sent out in snowstorms, rain, and when it was just downright cold. It kind of sucked during my first year not knowing any better, and having to deal with harshness of the weather especially not being dressed for it.

Every other year I just came to expect it, even we had no idea when the fire alarms were going to be tested, but I made it a habit to try to have a pair of pajama pants and t-shirt when I went to bed to at least stay remotely warm when the fire alarm goes off in incredibly bad weather, but its always fun to watch the first years unexpect it, and see them in the blizzard or rainstorm not properly dressed for the occassion especially when wearing no shoes or sandals under a few feet of snow, lol.

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