Fire Alarm Pull Stations | Requirements and Fun Facts
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- Ever wanted to know more about that red fire pull box on the wall? Watch to learn more about the placement requirements of fire alarm pull stations as well as other neat facts that may be surprising.
One topic I did not address which I know there will be questions about is if pull stations squirt ink on the hand of someone that activates it. I have yet to come across one pull station with this made-up feature. There is a gel-like dye that can optionally be applied to the handle of the pull station. This can stain your hand and is used to help prove the case of someone pulling the fire alarm when there is no fire. This gel-like dye is EXTREMELY uncommon and is almost never used. To prevent false alarms I instead strongly recommend a mechanical cover with an alarm (like talked about in the video). The gel-like dye does not really prevent false alarms where a mechanical alarm guard does.
Another topic I could have expanded on is why there is a height requirement for fire alarm pull stations. NFPA 72 requires to pull stations to be mounted between 42 inches and 48 inches off the ground as that height allows the average person to pull it in the standing position. This height is also low enough for someone in a wheelchair to also have the ability to pull the alarm if needed. Some books say between 42 inches and 54 inches is acceptable. This is one of those things that can be different depending on the situation. I've come across a lot of newly installed pull stations that are mounted greater than 48 inches.
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In New Zealand, our "Manual Call Points" (as we call them) are REQUIRED to be dual action! Traditionally this has been a sheet of glass in front of a switch that needs to be broken. More recently, designed using plastic elements that fall-away or drop down have been gradually replacing glass. Also, European-Style MCPs have started appearing on the NZ packet, which are acceptable so long as they are either equipped with a plastic flap covering the operating switch, or are covered using a stopper (or both). Stoppers (usually STIs) can be used with any MCP in NZ, but they aren't too common as they are VERY expensive over here.
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This is one of the videos of yours I haven't seen yet. But it's nice to see a video that's codes-based and educational in addition to being entertaining, and it makes for a quick reference if needed instead of having to track down and comb through the code books themselves to find this information.
1 Near doors. Near exits, On all floors.
Cool video by the way! really informative for people looking into alarms.
And i actually prefer those metal covers myself.
I work in a memory care unit at a nursing home and several of our pull stations have covers. Didn't know there was an alarm once the cover was opened. Great info!!
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One of my favorite videos
Grant so proud of this video and gave me more knowledge that I never knew Great Job. Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year, John
I thought this was someone else... didn’t Grant quit?
I learned a lot of things from this video. Great video and Merry Christmas.
Very useful video, thanks! If you plan on making one, I would certainly enjoy a second video about notification appliances!
4:49 great point. Back in HS someone accidently bumped the fire alarm stopper in the library during study hall. The librarian made the whole room evacuate due to thinking its a fire drill and then wondered why no one was outside (on a spectrealert system) . The principal noticed us outside and fixed the stopper for us.
Somebody should teach them that it is not the alarm...people not comprehending alarm signals is dangerous in a real emergency situation.
@@alexandersalarms5380 after the incident the principal explained her mistake. At least now knows that pullstation covers sometimes have an alarm that's independent from the fire alarm system. Your absolutely right in a emergency you need to be quick and deliberate and if there was a real fire, people need to know the difference from the stopper vs the actual fire alarm that sounds throughout the entire building
I don't like the stopper alarms
@among us lyin2me no one got in trouble for this incident. And I infer someone accidently nudged the cover which tripped the stopper cover alarm for the pull station. (looking back there was a chair adjacent to this stopper covered pull station)
After this incident, the librarian apologized to us and the principal (he could care less) and we all went back to our buisness of studying till the lunch bell rang
More videos like this! Super nerdy and fun to watch thanks!
Awesome Collection of Pull Stations!
I remember when I was huge into fire alarms, and tornado sirens, but now its just mostly sirens, and I forgot way too much about fire alarms, but S.E.R safety is still a thing so maybe and I can bring some of my fire alarm logic back!
Very interesting. I never thought of that on pull stations.
Great informational video! Now that I think about it where I work there is a pull station next to each door in and out of the building as well as next to stairwells! No sprinklers in the building! Pull stations were in the same spots in my college dorm too, however they put ink on each of them so if an alarm is pulled they'll be looking at everyone's hands on the way back in!
The pull stations at my high school don't have ink, but the handles look dusty--this is special powder for picking up fingerprints
There’s a pull station in the wood shop at the school I go to without a protection case around it, in an area where wood chips commonly fly everywhere.
This is very helpful. I learned some things I never even knew about pull stations!
Totally agree about Stopper covers fooling the general public. Glad you mentioned it.
Good job Grant! Very detailed.
One time we were getting covers on the pull stations at my schools gym. The dude was drilling into the wall and pulled the alarm
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Thanks for the vid! I am working on a deafening Burglar alarm system. Should I still use some of these requirements?
My middle school has one of those large exits at the front. They have 3 Bg12lxs one at each side and one in the middle.
This was a great video. Merry Christmas
This is one of the most informative videos you’ve ever uploaded, Grant. Thanks for your effort. Oh, and how about starting a Patreon page?
I can’t imagine how many false fire alarms there would be caused by really bad students in my school if there is no stopper covers over the pull stations in the building. Stopper covers help pull stations in many ways reduces or prevents false alarms and protects them from damage. This is why every single pull station installed in areas of buildings that there can be a lot of tampering with them in the United States has to have the stoppers over them.
The thing about the stopper later on in this video my school has a pull station that is very high likely to be tampered with in the side entrance at the front of the building and there’s no stopper and I have a feeling that someone’s going to bump into the alarm and set it off so they need to add that stopper cover with alarm over that pull station to help protect it.
I’m not going to joke with those devices.
Awesome!! Very helpful video!
I live in the east of iowa which actually has a lot of people. The school district I go to has built two new schools. Pull stations are no longer required in schools however sprinklers for every square foot and smoke detectors for every 10 feet squared are required. These smoke detector and sprinkler requirements are never modified with the addition of pull stations so it doesn’t make sense to have them anymore. They don’t really help with safety and they only offer the ability to cause a problem within the building. There is one in the main office next to an annunciator and remote microphone that’s purpose is for drills. It saddens me that these schools don’t have pull stations for fires throughout but they have an intruder button everywhere. I’m only a freshman but even in my younger days, a school intruder wasn’t much of a threat.
I have witnessed Pull Stations are becoming less common. My School removed them except for the gym, main office, and Library. The newer gym of the school doesn’t even have a single pull station there. Another example is my dad’s school which when they replaced the system in 2012 they decided to remove pull station spots. The only pull station there is in the main office. At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if pull stations would start to become unusual to see in a building from 20 years from now.
The stopper cover is great for fire alarm pull stations in schools especially the elementary ones because elementary school kids don’t know better not to false pull a fire alarm
ive noticed that pulls are not always located at exits because at a lot of the buildings ive been to also have a pull station at stairwells or even normal stairs
can you do a video on taking apart a fire alarm and seeing the insides? if you do, i want to see whats inside the spectralert advance
Merry Christmas!
Fun fact in australia where I live it is by law your fire alarm system is an voise evacuation system
Hi, Love your videos! You should do the same thing, but requirements about notification appliances. like why there are white and red and stuff like that.
Am I the only one that was dying to see you pull the 270?
I remember one time in 2012 I saw a light on fire so I have to pull the fire alarms to get the Fire man to come
This is what the pull station in my school in las Vegas looked like 1:23
Cool! Next could you maybe do another informative video on alarm units / strobes?
That's what I'm planning on! Thank you!
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Can you make a video how the cover alarm works please?
Nice video!
Have a great Christmas and a happy new year
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BG-10 is discontinued because a 2x4 can set it off.
The Siga is my favorite
Actually the bg-10 has been discontinued for alot of different reasons 2 that are the most reported issues was the button sticking and not activating and the second being the hex lock breaking and literally opening up out of nowhere
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And that as well
@@FireTech7 the second reason cost some people hundreds of thousands of dollars when it randomly dumped all of the halon/halex because the hex screw holder part broke off.
do department stores actually need fire alarmts? ross stores rarely have fire alarms or if they do they are outdated
I’ve always wanted to pull it but I don’t know how to do it without getting caught
S. E. R. Safety can you make another video with the kidde eg1av pls?
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Wait I have the Edwards at my school under a sti stopper cover
Can you press charges for pulling a false fire alarm?
That would be scary
Until some way of making the tamper alarm distinct from the fire alarm to an average user comes along, I don't really think alarmed tamper guards are a good idea. One method could just be to make a break rod in it that makes a deliberately loud sound, but not an alarm that could be confused for a full alarm condition.
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4th! Nice video bro!
I know Japan and Taiwan requires a red light next to a call point that remains on, and flashes whilst in alarm.
I love fire alarms
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What would happen if i used 80s simplex mechanical horns and light plates on a modern system on march time
it would work
As long as it’s the right voltage, then you’re ok
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I think i would know how to defeat all of the Anti- false alarm measures...
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Where can i find adapters?
I need to charge my fire alarm
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5:22 Did anyone start thinking about a certain person?
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Wasn’t it that one guy that had a server that also made fire alarm videos? I can put my head around it, isn’t it FireAlarmSevers, right?
@@FireAlarmTech7. His channel is newageserveralarm but at least you were familiar with who I was talking about.
@@FireAlert Can you name the person who built and supposedly still has that panel fully intact please?
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Shouldn't pull stations be higher so that kids can't reach it and won't pull the fire alarm.
Not all adults are tall. Also, what if a child needs to pull the fire alarm because of a real emergency? The pull station height requirement also allows someone in a wheelchair to easily pull it if needed.
Sort of flawed logic, but I see where you are coming from.
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Bruh the mounting requirements don’t seem to phase the installers. They have no chill. Sometimes they’ll place it about 2 and a half feet off the floor, and another time it was placed ALMOST SIX FEET ON THE WALL.
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