That's Alarming! Shipboard Alarms and How to Tell the Difference Between Them

In this episode we're talking about different alarms heard aboard ship.
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[@paulvarga9696]

Back when I was in the Navy an electrician accidently triggered the General Quarters alarm while we were at sea. We were fully manned at Battle stations in record time the captain was impressed.

[@mm-yt8sf]

do you know how the bridge knows when everything's completed? i'm imagining/guessing maybe a series of green lights for each important area? or maybe some lesser officer gets calls from different managers(?) as their groups finish getting ready and keeps an updated list? or maybe more humorously a row of bells like in the intro to downton abbey for various rooms in the house to summon a servant

[@kevincrosby1760]

@@mm-yt8sf Each location submits a readiness report via sound-powered phones to Damage Control Central where they are checked off on the DC board. When all have reported in as "ready", this information is provided via SP phone from DC Central to the bridge.

[@rohanpreis6883]

Yeah, the second I see that alarm I’m flipping it

[@TheHawk--oe8iq]

We were transferring ship's fuel to a fuel void when the fuel void caught fire, just as we entered the Med, via the Suez. 4 am, after late night flight ops, and I'm replacing the old wax. I saw a puff of white smoke come up thru my ladder well to the 02 level. As soon as I heard, "Gentlemen, man your hi-caps" from the 5MC, I started stowing my gear. Special firefighting team has four minutes to report to their repair locker. If they don't, General Quarters will sound. I anticipated by begin stowing my gear before the alarm sounded. The hanger deck was soaked with AFFF. AIMD was going to have a very bad day. Do I really need to tell you what ship? My username is the answer.

[@grimlock1471]

How long was that electrician doing pushups?

[@jinxvi844]

1:50 flight crash alarm 4:24 collision alarm 5:07 chemical alarm 8:41 general alarm

[@bobbycv64]

thank you for time links

[@TheBooban]

No good. He still talks too much.

[@Justjoshin596]

@@TheBoobanmight learn a thing or two

[@robscott8296]

Thanks

[@nonna_sof5889]

Question: What's the most alarming alarm to hear on a surface ship. Answer: The dive alarm.

[@Stylemaster911]

Moskva crew confirms.

[@robertschultz6922]

Ask the crew of the Moskva. They love the dive alarm

[@Jesse-qy6ur]

Skimmers don't change depth unless a submarine changes it for them.

[@SportyMabamba]

@@Stylemaster911 Special Naval Operation to De-Mystify the Sea Floor

[@brianwilson3458]

😅

[@josephburke7224]

I pulled a fire alarm once in a factory. There was orderly evacuation. Afterwards. As we were outside. The big bosses were looking to fire the guy who pulled the alarm. As they were facing me. I just pointed behind then. I said turn around. Half the building was on fire. They were still mad as they had not given the order. I cared more for my co workers.

[@lelkr]

"You can go back into the building if you want boss, I will join you in about 20 minutes after the fire is over"

[@pteppig]

That's why it's called a fire alarm. Pull it, they get alarmed and fire you.

[@stevecooper2873]

Typical control freaks. Delayed alarms account for many lives lost, and, of course property loss as well. There is also the potential issue of the local municipal FD responding. My Dad worked at a chemical plant [also on the fire brigade] where all efforts were made to fight the fire without the local FD. Apparently, after a certain number of calls to outside help, they would no longer have insurance coverage. Bosses had security actually lock the gates to prevent the municipal FD from responding inside on one occasion :-( .

[@ooommm4024]

it's alarming they were not fired for endangering factory staff by preventing people from pulling the fire alarm to report an actual fire.

[@dwwolf4636]

​@@stevecooper2873Lol do they want to be sued ?

[@Bill23799]

I am surprised there is not a placard under the 3 Alarms on the bridge that says.... WARNING THESE ARE ACTUAL ALARM SWITCHES Guests are requested to notify a Museum Curator in the event you observe an imminent collision, chemical attack or general emergency.

[@paulloveless9180]

Highly underrated comment lol

[@StreuPfeffer]

If you sound the alarm, we will drill this for the next 2h into everyone on the ship how to do it correctly! no one is spared from this! stopped my recruits form fumbling around with the radio alarms, simple thread of "call the nuclear alaram again and the rest of the 2h lecture will be in full cbrn gear in the sun" stopped them quite fast.

[@Bill23799]

@@StreuPfeffer Haha that would not be fun. When I was stationed in West Germany I bet a buddy I could keep my M-17A1 Protective mask on longer than he could. After about 12 hours I had face sweat pooling under my chin.

[@djcfrompt]

I believe this is in part of the bridge that is not open to visitors on the tour route, just an area you can look in to.

[@spvillano]

General advice: If you hear the dive alarm, you are on the wrong vessel.

[@christophertipton2318]

When I was a kid in the mid-1960s, the Navy sent three destroyers to visit Detroit. They tied up in a nest off downtown in the Detroit River and opened to visitors. My dad took me and a couple of my siblings to tour the ships. We were on the main deck when the collision alarm went off. My dad knew what it was from his time travelling on ships to and from the Pacific during WWII as a Marine. It was like kicking an ant hill with sailors running all over. Turned out, some kid pulled the alarm up on the bridge. We were the third ship in the nest and thus stuck out in the Detroit River more than the other two destroyers. Later, when we got up to the bridge, there was a sailor standing guard on the alarm switches. My dad found it rather amusing, once he learned the reason for the alarm, but was initially serious as a heart attack looking over the side of the ship for a boat or lake freighter heading our way. A loaded ore freighter would definitely put a serious hurting on a destroyer although the shipping channel wasn't terribly close to us. You never know if they lose steering control.

[@otm646]

Any idea which destroyers those were? I love to find photos of all three sitting in the Detroit river.

[@christophertipton2318]

@@otm646 No clue. It was a long time ago. I'd suspect they were late WWII era destroyers of the types that saw service off Vietnam.

[@henrycarlson7514]

I spent about 3 Months as a phone talker in DC central aboard U.S>S.. Ranger Cv 61 . My favorite drill was during the midwatch (between 0000+0400 ) the DC officer would have me shut off the steering control , and see how long it would take for someone to notice . When they did I would shift to the other set . Please understand that was 76.000 Tons moving with NOBODY driving . The average was as I recall 5-10 minutes

[@kirkmorrison6131]

I avoid unless there is a reason. I pulled a chemical leak alarm once. We were venting liquid Cl2 (Choline) I jumped into the suit away from the leak donned the SCB just as I got a whiff. Alarm didn't go off I hit the Alarm, pulled the other guy over helped him into the respirator and suit fix the leak from the valve.

[@djcfrompt]

​@henrycarlson7514 was there an indicator they should have seen, or was it just when they made a control input the ship wouldn't respond?

[@billmoran3812]

I don’t pull alarms unless it is for an authorized test, or actual emergency. However, while working at a US Naval Shipyard doing a power plant retrofit, we invited the shipyard commander to the plant control room. He accidentally leaned against the wall and triggered the emergency Natural Gas shutoff that shuts down all of the gas supply to the boilers and gas turbines. That was exciting!

[@whynotjustmyusername]

Reminds me of an occasion in my biology class, back in high school. Biology rooms were fitted as lab rooms, so they had emergency shutoff buttons for gas, water and electricity (except lighting) as well. Also, we had freshly introduced one of those smart boards. The teacher was doing his thing teaching. He leaned against a wall and suddenly the smart board switched off. It took a few seconds for him to realize what had happened.

[@Supersean0001]

I'm the Army guy on here . . . I was assigned to one of the "border cavalry' regiments along the old East German border (11th ACR), and our border camp, OP Alpha, was the biggest "dog-and-pony" show around. We'd pull a 30-day border rotation every now and then, and several times a week we'd have some VIP group come through on a tour. Now this was a working border post; we had 24 hr rotations for every duty station, plus running patrols along the border with the West German border police, at random times, locations, and distances, so whenever these VIP tourists came through, we'd have to work around them. And OF COURSE there was an alarm system there too; not unlike the movie depictions of General Quarters, when it would sound, we'd grab our gear and run for our assigned posts; foxholes, our vehicles, various fighting positions around the perimeter. And all those damned tour groups wanted to hit the alarm just to get us to do "our show" for them . . . and sometimes they'd get to. What a pain; come back in from a predawn or overnight patrol, just get back in and settled down, finally getting warmed back up after freezing your butt off, and some senator's wife wants to hit that damned alarm button just to see you and your buddies scramble . . .

[@ret7army]

my heart goes out to you bud, had a good friend who was with the 11th ACR heard a few of his stories ... memories

[@user-io9ie5cs8j]

Me too. My friend was 11th ACR

[@cleverusername9369]

Ryan's transition to "Battleship New Jersey receives operating support from the New Jersey Department of State" is getting impressively fast.

[@nottiification]

IKR, he used to be so awkward in front of the camera, but he's got some chops now. He didnt even have to cut when the kid started up in the background.

[@cleverusername9369]

@@nottiification I enjoy the dad jokes and his recurring gag of using curators as a unit of measurement

[@spvillano]

@@cleverusername9369 and his frustration with the plumbing, which he's likely right. If anything sinks her, it likely will be her own plumbing.

[@Deltarious]

Yes I *absolutely* get the urge to pull a lever, push a button, or trigger an alarm if I'm unfamiliar with it or have never done so before. I *also* have the discipline and training not to do so, so I would never do so just randomly, but that does not mean I don't *want* to do so or be in a position that I'm allowed to. It's deeply ingrained into me as part of my curiosity, and also I have to admit there's some sense of power dynamic involved in it too as in "I can push this one button and *all this* happens!". Even with very mundane alarms like fire alarms, I've seen them thousands of times. I know what nearly all models and versions of them sound like. I know how the system works, what will happen, and how to reset some of them. Many of them are even painful to hear at all. I still get the urge, creeping and subtly, to pull, push, or smash any fire alarm I ever see if I stand near it for long enough, every time.

[@dalesql2969]

The temptation is very real. I have resisted the temptation so far.

[@jayp7171]

I'm a retired Electrician, once while working on a bank remodel I was told that the alarm was taken out of service so I could work on it. My apprentice was tackled and handcuffed by the police when he stepped out for a smoke. It wasn't anywhere near as funny as I thought it would be.

[@kevincrosby1760]

Shipboard on the 1MC, "Ensign Jones, (officer) your presence is requested on the port quarterdeck" gets you Mr. Jones. "IC2 Crosby, (enlisted) lay to the port quarterdeck" would have gotten me to the port quarterdeck. "Captain Jones, Lay to the port quarterdeck" will get you a rather large group of sailors in flak vests and a nice assortment of pistols, shotguns, and automatic weapons all surrounding the port quarterdeck. Officers do not "lay" anywhere...their presence is requested. In short, words DO matter. The above word passed was an automatic security alert indicating that the QD watch was under duress. When accidentally passed by a flustered seaman it was hilarious, even if I did have to sit on the deck for about 30 minutes while the CDO individually contacted and dismissed each member of the security team.

[@kevinsantascott3688]

@@kevincrosby1760 must be something on an Aircraft Carrier. Our "Security team" would have to go to the armory on my ship. The words lay to and requested mean little. Follow either with "ON THE DOUBLE" will get me there much faster. Request me, I may take my time.

[@JohnRunyon]

Yes. Very same. And any time I find out someone is planning to test an alarm... "ooooooh can I do it?"

[@davideasterling2729]

On my FFG we would ring the ship's bell then announce the location of the fire. We tested all of the other alarm circuits prior to getting underway. I heard the general quarters alarm on a few occasions outside of testing. The most memorable was on 9/11, while we were still in port. All the training came back that day.

[@IcthioVelocipede]

Regarding the "people pulling alarms" thing: every large data center I've been in has had a big red Emergency Power Off button near the door. It's for the fire department to hit so they don't get shocked when they put water on a fire in there. And every single one of them I've seen has been locked in "maintenance bypass" mode, where the button is locked out and can only be reactivated by someone with the key. I always asked about this and got the same answer everywhere: inevitably some customer coming in to access their equipment felt compelled to hit the button and see what it would do. And after suffering a huge outage, a decision was made to lock out the button, since staff with the key are on site 24/7 anyway.

[@Heidelaffe]

That sounds strange. I have never seen something like that while the five years I worked as a techi for a data center operator. Also not in several european data centers. Many advanced data centers would also use systems to reduce the amount of oxygen in the air to reduce the risk of a fire massivly. They also are using sensible systems which detect particles in the air which are indicating a fire before it starts. I also need to point out that you would use CO2 extinguishers if possible to avoid massive damage. If the fire is to big to do so, you can just use water as voltages up to 1000V are not a problem.

[@IcthioVelocipede]

@@Heidelaffe It's a building code requirement in most of North America. They do have all the advanced stuff as well for dealing with fires properly, but I guess fire departments are still going to potentially put water on live equipment if something goes wrong enough, so they insist on having that big red button.

[@wyattroncin941]

​@@BIGBIRDSMEAL cooling liquid. . . like, say, water? mineral cooling a datacenter would make maintainance and upgrades nearly impossible, while introducing several points of failure.

[@pteppig]

@@BIGBIRDSMEAL sure, all servers are submerged in a mixture of nitrogen and Co2 for cooling. Submerging in oil would make maintenance messy and delaminate some components.

[@deildegast]

@@pteppig "submerged in a mixture of nitrogen and Co2" you mean, like, liquid 🤣

[@calvinhobbes7504]

As a Cold War old salt, I can tell you it didn't take long for a newbie sailor to tell the difference between the alarms. We drilled on them constantly! I can remember being new to an aircraft carrier and my first day in I-division I went down to the newly-opened mess decks for chow with the only friend I had made in indoctrination .... when I heard on the 1MC "Constellation ... Departing!" - now we were in a shipyard 2/3 through a Complex Overhaul, with hoses and lines and shipyard workers all over the place - not to mention IIRC, we were in drydock ..... and my first words were, "We're getting underway?" It got a good laugh at the table and a lot of actual salts patted my head pitifully as they walked by .... I must have been as red-faced as a lobster when someone with a heart actually explained things to me. :)

[@kevinmencer3782]

So, what was actually happening for them to sound that call?

[@AM-hf9kk]

@@kevinmencer3782 It was more than likely an honorary for the commanding officer.

[@garymartin6987]

@@kevinmencer3782 The skipper's arrival and departure are always announced. Same for any high level officer (COMSUBPAC, COMSURFPAC (or LANT for the other coast), squadron or group commander, etc.)

[@red2001ss]

During my time on USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71, when standing watch as POOW we used the Chem Alarm to activate all Circuits of the 1MC then ring the bell, (the one for announcing the CO or Flag officers aboard and the time keeping) we would ring it vigorously followed by 1, 2, or 3 single rings to indicate FWD, Midship, or aft. After that we would announce, usually proceeded by "This is a Drill!, This is a Drill!" unless it wasn't: "Fire, fire, fire! Fire in compartment (Space number as noted on bullseye) and direct witch repair locker for response team to use. Like I said we used the Chem alarm to start it off cause any of the 3, General, Chemical, and Collision will activate all 1MC circuits so the 1MC announcement can be heard everywhere. In some areas of the Carrier, the 1MC isn't patched through normally for standard use, and using the Chem alarm allowed that to be heard in those spaces as well. After the drill was over, or we just got done testing the 3 alarms, the POOW would have to call DC Central and have them reset the 1MC to normal.

[@Redshirt214]

Neat! That’s a clever way to make use of existing systems to make a fire alarm!

[@stonebear]

As for there being no dedicated fire alarm: One thing they learned in part from the Japanese navy during WWII and in part from the _Forrestal_ incident is that just as every Marine trains with a rifle first, every US Navy sailor - every one, including the clerks and the journalists and people who will hopefully never see combat - trains as a firefighter. During WWII a number of Japanese ships went down because the bomb that set the ship on fire also took out their dedicated damage control crew, and no one else knew what to do. Something similar happened on Forrestal; when the on-deck bomb cooked off, it killed two fire control crews and suddenly you were left with a dearth of people with the competency to fight a ship-threatening fire. So now every sailor _during boot camp_ is given a one-week crash course in firefighting, and continues their education in the field throughout their career.

[@wyattroncin941]

unfortunately in my experience DC senarios are considered to be the engineering crew's job, and the passengers are somewhat laxidasical about it. recently during workups we had ops hiding in the adjacent mess untill the fire attack team was all dressed. makes it hard to fight a flood when all the flood team leaders are dressed in bunker gear. good thing sea training didn't lean on dual senarios much.

[@BornRandy62]

I stood quarterdeck watches. The morning watch had a specific time to test the 1MC General Chemical and Collision alarms. They over ride each other by precedence. you start with the general and then hit the chemical then the collision to see if they cancel each other . Just remember to shut off the last one before you finish. otherwise you will have more noises than you planned for

[@kevincrosby1760]

On an older ship, one of those unplanned noises was probably somebody from the IC Shop asking if you would like to spend a fun-filled evening with him running every tube in the Alarm Oscillator, 1MC pre-amp, and 1MC power amp racks through the tube tester. The old oscillators didn't like multiple alarm switches thrown and would over-drive the tubes, causing burn outs and distortion. The pre-amp did not like distortion, and the main rack didn't like receiving an amplified distorted signal, distorting it even more before heading out to the 1MC speakers. The finals in the power amp were special matched tube sets...in 1988, toasting one would result in somebody ordering a $900 matched pair to go back in repair stock.

[@spvillano]

@@kevincrosby1760 my answer would've been, "Not really, but since I fucked it up, I'll help fix it up, when's good for you?". Laughably, I'm also qualified to work on such ancient systems from civilian side employment and current equipment as well. If memory serves, the BB's also used loctal tubes, right?

[@johnslaughter5475]

No, I don't pull alarms. Thankfully, I never heard any but the general alarm. Any time we were at sea, except when off the coast of Vietnam, we went to GQ at least once every day. While doing trials and other things preparatory to deploying it could easily be 3-4 times a day. We would always be allowed to go to chow. I also heard the general alarm twice when it was prefaced with, "This is not a drill." That'll get your attention.

[@geofffikar3417]

Did that alarm make your heart race?

[@kevinsantascott3688]

@@geofffikar3417 yes, especially if they say it is NOT a drill. A ship can go to General Quarters for many reasons. A main space fire being the biggie for me. As a first responder on the Flying Squad the alarm would sound after we set up a fight of any fire. it gets out of control then all fire fighting teams converge and set boundaries and can flood the space with foam . ANY fire at sea gets your heart pumping.

[@geofffikar3417]

@@kevinsantascott3688 Thanks. Jay Leno once said "Red sky at night, sailor's delight, unless the ship's on fire" I have always remembered that.

[@johnslaughter5475]

@@geofffikar3417 Absolutely. It starts giving you an appreciation of what those guys felt like during WWII as they waited deep in the ship not knowing what's going on.

[@JohnRodriguesPhotographer]

64 years old and have never been tempted.

[@5695q]

HIFR (Helicopter Infight Refueling), the helo hovers over the deck and drops the rescue hoist hook, the refuel crew hooks the hose to the rescue hoist and the helo pulls it up where the helo crewman hooks the hose to the helicopter. The helicopter hovers out to the side of the ship just in case the hose breaks and dumps fuel, there is a quick disconnect in the hose that will allow the helo to break away if there is a problem, the hose is managed by about a dozen sailors who pay it out or take it in during the evolution. Last thing you want to hear is the general alarm followed by fire,fire,fire and the space number with this is not a drill.

[@Jimorian]

Might be worth it to get some kind of sound repeating device that can record a sample of each of the alarm sounds, but only plays locally for those who have that urge to "see if it works".

[@ronaldrobertson2332]

Just rig it up to loudly sound "GIT YER DAMN HANDS OFF THAT SWITCH!" if some kid or joker pulls it.

[@JessicaKStark]

@@ronaldrobertson2332 Bypass switch for when you have tour groups onboard.

[@kevincrosby1760]

@@JessicaKStark just kill the power to the Alarm Oscillator rack, or pot the alarm audio input gain down to zero on the 1MC pre-amp. All of the alarm audio is generated from the same piece of gear and fed to the 1MC just like a microphone station.

[@mikemotter3685]

I had an electronics class in high school. We had a fire alarm that we could pull in the classroom that would just go off in the classroom. It didn't have sound just a strobe light. That was fun

[@user-io9ie5cs8j]

Just pound the tar out of the first offender, and hang his picture on the bridge. If there's a second time, then a second butt hurting, and a Lovely second picture. They'll learn.

[@stealth9639]

I asked for this video a few months back! Really grateful to see it today! I happen to be only 10 minutes from the ship passing through as we speak, but I won't be able to visit today, so this made me so happy to see my request, thank you! Hoping to schedule a curator's tour and visit later this year!

[@blockstacker5614]

It is important to set off any alarm once and a while to make sure it works when you really need it to. Of course you must plan tests such as this in advance and make sure that everyone who hears the alarm knows that it is in fact a test.

[@williamstewart9769]

That was usually done when in port. Before the test a page on the 1MC. "Now hear this. The following is a test of the (...) alarm. Disregard." After the test, "Test of the (...) alarm complete. Regard further alarms."

[@leftyo9589]

@@williamstewart9769 correct, was a regular PMS performed by the IC guys.

[@magnemoe1]

Fire alarm tests are common, it might be an drill or announced as an test who can be ignored.

[@kevincrosby1760]

@@leftyo9589 Think it was a Monthly, rotating through the two quarterdecks and the bridge for the 3 primary alarms, and the bridge/helo tower for Flight Crash. We tested as the card came up in rotation, in port or at sea. Only switch location not tested were the selector switch and push button located in the IC Shop on the Alarm Oscillator itself. The Alarm Oscillator was the unit which actually generated the audio when an alarm switch was thrown, and was directly connected to the pre-amp for the 1MC system in basically the same manner as the various 1MC microphone stations.

[@leftyo9589]

@@kevincrosby1760 yeah, im fairly certain it was a monthly or quarterly check. im a little rusty, its been almost 30 years!

[@leftyo9589]

i dont pull them, but on my first ship we had a phantom that liked to run around and pull them. was a pita, after the first few times captain made us go to GQ until he got bored. he also had me the lead IC go around and open all the switches up to ensure none had gotten wet and shorted. for me at least i got to wander around during these GQ's , have a smoke, and check out the switches while everybody else was in full dress sweating.

[@phillipbouchard4197]

Excellent video. Just when you thought there was no more to learn about New Jersey we get the scoop on Alarm systems. Thank you !

[@tonyperotti9212]

Wow, I would never pull an alarm! But I was in the Navy so my "natural" impulses are perhaps different from the average bear. Interesting story about the General Alarm on my ship (USS Alexander Hamilton, SSBN617G). On a submarine the General Alarm serves as a fire alarm in addition to its use for manning battle stations. The alarm circuits also override the voice announcing system on the 1MC. During the midwatch one night we had an hydraulic leak in the engine room. The damage control team effectively handled the casualty but the fear with such a occurrence is the possibility of fire due to the hydraulic fluid sprayed about the space. We went to periscope depth (PD) for emergency ventilation of the engine room when we heard the 1MC announcement "Fire in the..." at that point someone in the Control Room pulled the alarm so it cut off the rest of the announcement. Once activated there is no way to stop the general alarm until it finishes its cycle. There were a few tense moments as we waited to hear the location of the fire and, of course, we feared that it would be in the engine room. Turns out it was in the galley. The cooks were frying sausage or bacon and at PD the ship was rolling and spilled some of the grease where it wasn't supposed to be and it started smoking. In the end we all had a good laugh about it.

[@spvillano]

My luck, I'd be aboard and there'd be a fire reported in the main ballast tank at test depth.

[@UltraMagaFan]

Yes I have the urge to pull alarms. I’ve been wanting to pull the fire alarms in school since I was 8 years old and I still have that urge 10 years later. Fortunately I have the discipline not to. Ryan, if you can, please make a video of you pulling the alarms when the ship is closed to the public. That would be the coolest thing!

[@loficampingguy9664]

I second this, I'd love to watch Ryan pull random (to us) switches so we can hear what the do.

[@spvillano]

Nearly pulled a station once, but fortunately, the class C extinguisher did its job. I learned an important lesson that day. When the instructions say to stand so many feet back, stand that far back (cough, cough, gag). Got the fire out and was able to kill the power, damned amp shorted out just at the right time... Got the amp fixed and new power supply leads quickly enough, despite the mess that I cleaned up. Had compound halfway across a warehouse sized space. I was quite experienced at the time too, so boy, but my face was the most fetching shade of red...

[@aserta]

I don't touch anything in a museum, i was taught to respect other people's time AND i don't wanna pay potentially expensive things. I really don't get parents with kids letting them roam, and then you see a rare piece getting trashed because of it (speaking more about painting/art museums, but it does apply, i think).

[@Kevin-go2dw]

In the 70's I got a detention for missing an excursion to the science museum. 20 years latter, I was employed by the museum and got to be hands on operating some of the equipment. The equipment was mainly steam engines, some 100+ years old, so they were solidly built, and also needed plenty of lubrication so cleaning the oil off was a fair part of the job. The best part of the job was being able to go where the general public could not.

[@alanslater4206]

The collision alarm sounds like an old digital watch wajke up alarm lol

[@tubaljohn1]

Thanks for the great video shipmate. I was looking for a QG vid, but this was better.

[@robertf3479]

Flight deck repair locker or Team on a surface combatant was called "Crash and Smash" back in my day, about the same time New Jersey was being dusted off and reactivated for the final time. Sounding the Collision Alarm while moored to a pier WILL raise eyebrows (figuratively,) but one of my fellow 1st Class POs was the Inport OOD one watch when we had gale winds blowing through Hampton Roads. We were moored to the North (upwind) side of Pier 7 with the small boat basin (barges and tugs) upwind of us. A couple of good size barges started to pull loose and threatened to slam into our UNARMORED hull, with the probable result of piercing the hull at or below the waterline. He had his Petty Officer of the Watch sound Collision from the Quarterdeck (yes, all three alarms on the Quarterdeck) while he got on the landline phone to contact Port Operations to alert them to the barges. "Collision imminent, starboard side amidships ... Set Zebra main deck and below and evacuate." The Command Duty Officer literally flew out onto the Quarterdeck and immediately told my friend that he did the right thing as soon as he hung up with Port Ops. The duty tug crew had noticed the barges pulling loose even before Port Ops was called and intercepted them before we could get hit. Nice Letter of Commendation from the Destroyer Squadron Commodore for my friend's service record, I think it helped him when the next Chief Selection Board met.

[@kevincrosby1760]

A "Fire Alarm" is the rapid ringing of the bell over the 1MC, followed by 1-3 single strikes to indicate Forward, Amidships, or Aft. This would be followed with an announcement similar to "FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! Class Bravo fire in the Galley, compartment xxxxx, Away the Inport Emergency Team (Flying Squad underway), provide from Repair Locker 2". A drill would preface the announcement with the words "This is a drill" twice before the standard announcement. The same procedure is used for all alarms, with sounding the appropriate alarm tones replacing the bell signals. "General Quarters, General Quarters, all hands man your battle stations. Set condition Zebra throughout the ship. Make Zebra reports to the watch in DC Central. Reason for General Quarters - Class Bravo fire in the Boiler Room". FWIW, our doctrine was to call away GQ for just about any major issue in the Fire Room or Engine Room. Since these could easily escalate into a loss of electrical power, better to get the ship secured and everybody in repair lockers with manned sound-powered phones while you still had a 1MC to pass the word. An unexplained loss of firemain pressure was also a call to GQ if the cause could not be determined in a very short amount of time. In this scenario, rovers from each repair lockers would be on a constant roving fire/flooding patrol in order to (hopefully) catch a fire small enough for a hand-held extinguisher to be used. A total loss of firemain pressure was almost preferred, as it is probably a pump issue. Low/dropping firemain would man that you still had pumps online and the water was going someplace...generally on the "people side" of the hull. If you have a leak bad enough for pressure to drop with a total of 6000 GPM worth of pumps online, something is probably filling rapidly.

[@user2C47]

If there was a large unknown drain on the fire main, would it have been standard procedure to shut down the fire pumps to limit flooding?

[@kevincrosby1760]

@@user2C47 As a general rule, Sounding and Security would be dispatched to determine the cause. If nothing was found in a short amount of time, then the watch in DC Central would start adding people to the search, and possibly have the firemain segmented to isolate the problem area. (As a general rule, the firemain can be isolated into sections, each fed by a different pump). Once the general area was found, then sections could be further isolated within that segment. While this is going on, tanks and voids are being sounded, compartments checked, equipment which used firemain verified, etc. As far as shutting down fire pumps go, I would have considered that my last option, and the ship would have been at GQ before that point was reached. As above, first tep would be to determine what section of the firemain was affected, and isolate that area only.

[@camina0464]

@User 2C47 Typically the firemains have several segments that can be cutoff or bypassed entirely. The size of the ship determines how far the firemain system can be segmented

[@ChuckGaglione]

Or G.Q. is sounded when a scud missile blows up in the air close to your ship. I should know. U.S.S. Tarawa LHA 1, desert shield/storm.

[@Najolve]

I remember one night hearing the chemical (NBC alarm) while we were deployed off the horn of Africa while we were in the unpressurized hanger. Since it had been so long since we were trained, we didn't recognize the alarm and no one wanted to be "that guy" who called the bridge to ask them what's up. Luckily the aft lookout was there to let us know it was a false alarm.

[@spvillano]

For that, I blame the skipper. But, it goes alongside the vessel casualties that involved playing bumper cars with other vessels and a couple of subs with seamounts. Lax training can and will kill service members.

[@dbfbobt]

A pessimist might put a diving alarm on a BB.

[@Masada1911]

*moskva looking around awkwardly*

[@geofffikar3417]

@@Masada1911 Isn't she on the bottom?

[@kevinsantascott3688]

I was petty officer of the watch in DC Central while at sea. All alarms go through there. Not sure if any can be sounded from there but there are a lot of types of alarms there. DC Central is the back bone of the ship for Damage Control.

[@kevincrosby1760]

Switches are for sounding the primary alerts/alarms. Those switches go straight to the Alarm Oscillator in the IC Shop, which sends the appropriate audio signal directly to the pre-amp for the 1MC system. Basically the same type of connection as a 1MC microphone station. Sounds like you are referring more to the actual alarm panels for fire, flooding, firemain pressure, etc. that would have had you sending the S&S rover on a mission...or "the panel which is not discussed" over in the corner which had guys with guns running around all over the ship when it went off, and that required two guys and 2 keys to silence...

[@deeexxx8138]

My very first time on a Navy ship (USS HAYLER, DD 997 aka The Junkyard Dog) I was in CIC when GQ went off. We were at the pier in Pascagoula (during PSA, I think). The crew jumped into action, but the cause was an IC Man shorting some wires whilst working on the system. I've also been on CGs and DDGs when fire drills were held. The space having the faux fire is part of the announcement over the 1MC. "Fire, Fire, Fire, Lube Oil Fire, AMR Number 2" etc. OBTW, the MC in "1MC" stands for Master's Call, not Main Circuit as some other sites and media have mis-reported. There is actually more than one MC circuit, each for a designated purpose. The "master" in this case is of course, the commanding officer, "Master" being the traditional term for the commander of any ship. I was also involved in the reactivation of WISCONSIN in 1988-1989. I remember her counter measures wash-down system, but did not know until Ryan told us that only WISCONSIN among all the IOWAs had that system.

[@spvillano]

She was one of the test vessels for the wash down system. Part of the nuclear testing decon testing. Ships without wash down were nearly impossible to decon properly. While she was never part of Crossroads, she was a test platform for the system. Which was obviously considered unwieldy and too expensive to implement on the rest of the BB fleet. As memory serves, the old USS Pennsylvania had a wash down system installed just for that test and it proved reasonably effective, hence its introduction into new construction ships. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossroads#Legacy

[@robotslug]

Loved this video!

[@Srinathji_Das]

Fantastic video! 👍

[@jwilder47]

A technical question about the alarms: Ryan mentioned that they are tied into the 1MC circuit and that the General Alarm automatically goes for a full minute; does the alarm override any voice announcements, or could you make an announcement while the GQ alarm was going off?

[@michaelsommers2356]

I'm pretty sure you can talk while the alarm is going on. You don't want to wait a full minute before the announcement.

[@actaeon299]

The alarm and the voice would be in "parallel". Therefore, you could talk. BUT, the alarms are a bit loud, and no one would probably understand you. So, you would announce (in a loud voice, but don't yell, in a calm voice) "FIRE FIRE FIRE". Sound the alarm. Then "Fire fire fire. Fire in Machinery 2. Fire in the Port Motor Generator. Fire fire fire". Or something like that.

[@fidjeenjanrjsnsfh]

Idk if this accurate but, in Tora!3, the US destroyer captain announce GQ, there was a whistle first, then the announcement, followed by the alarm. Would the same sequence apply?

[@actaeon299]

@@fidjeenjanrjsnsfh If that was directed at me, I don't know. First, it's a surface ship, so things are different than my sub. We didn't use Bosun's whistles. Second, it was 1941 and a LOT of things have changed. For instance, we NEVER said "This is no drill" or "This is a drill". They wanted you to act the same way each time, not different.

[@fidjeenjanrjsnsfh]

@@actaeon299 just querying

[@828enigma6]

My favorite is the missile jettison alarm, but it isn't on a battleship. It's found on submarines. Had it as a ring tone on my cell phone at one time.

[@jeffvoitek4392]

Ryan, that beard is looking awesome today dude!!!! I love your info dude!

[@dmac7128]

The OOD / Petty Officer Of The Watch is the fire alarm. They alert the crew over the 1MC with a rapid ringing of the ship's bell followed by a statement of the emergency and orders to the repair lockers as appropriate. The alarms in this video are identical to the alarms found on every Navy warship today.

[@claytonzimmerman277]

Aboard the Destroyer USS Perkins (DD-877) in the early 60s, General Quarters was sounded; then FIRE was broadcast over the 1MC. That would give an accounting for all of the crew members.

[@ronalddunn291]

Great Job Man 👍🇺🇲

[@johnshepherd8687]

When I was at NAVAIR we failed a fire drill. VADM Bowes was so p-ed off that for the next two weeks we multiple fire drills per day and he would stand at one of the exits with a stop watch timing the building evacuation. I don't know if we ever met his goal or he just gave up.

[@skyhawksailor8736]

Just a little correction, the Navy has not had gasoline in any aircraft, helicopters or the flight deck ground support equipment since the late 1970 when the Navy replaced the C1 with the C2.

[@MAlanThomasII]

I wake every day to a general alarm recorded straight off of an old Canadian submarine's alarm stack; it's the only alarm that I've never gotten so used to that I sleep through it. I'm told that on some ships and submarines, an entire suite of alarms are both color-coded and shape-coded. Particularly on submarines, where there's zero chance of any natural light if the lights go out. (There's also sometimes special alarms in the engine rooms because it could reasonably be too loud to hear the alarm!) Anyway, I find the whole topic fascinating.

[@garymartin6987]

Not just the alarm levers that are color/shape coded on submarines. Switches and valve handles are so coded as well. You've never seen dark until the lights go out when the smoke from a fire fills the boat and blots out the emergency battle lanterns (at 400ft/30kt).

[@keeshahdarkfurr8328]

Those don’t seem to be the original alarms the ship was built with. Wouldn’t the original battle stations alarm have been a mechanical bell? ( clang clang clang) Also where is the whoooop whooop whooop alarm you hear in the movies when destroyers go into battle, or capital ships take damage ?

[@keeshahdarkfurr8328]

In the movie, in harms way. They call for the bulgar to play, call to arms over the intercom. Then they say man battle stations. Followed by the GQ bells/klaxon

[@michaelsommers2356]

Stuff in movies is not always true to life. The sounds in this video are those used in USN surface ships. Other navies may use different sounds.

[@tomasthomas8563]

On my 2 DDs in the 70s and 80s we also had the engineering casualty alarm. The ships were designed to have main engineering spaces unmanned. In the early 2000s the navy was toying with the thought of having the "well deck ballast alarm". I don't know if anything came of this.

[@Matthewsmacku]

Epic video

[@douglasbrown7250]

When I was aboard USS Sacramento in the mid 90s the alarms were essentially the same as here. The General alarm didn't sound for a minute, though- it turned off when you pulled the lever back. I know that because I stood POOW a few times, and once had to do the test of the alarms from the quarterdeck. For the test we sounded each for 5 seconds. As far as I know we only had 3 places where the alarm switches existed- the bridge, the port quarterdeck, and the starboard quarterdeck. But I may be wrong, as there may have been switches in DCC, CIC, or even in the IC shop. We also had a flight deck crash alarm, which was operated only from the Pri-Fly. In addition to being used for chemical attack warning, the chemical alarm was also used as a security alert alarm in port. In my time on the Sacramento the only time any of the alarms were used other than tests, drills, or planned GQ (such as going through the Straits of Hormuz) was on June 5, 1995. That's when the collision alarm was sounded for real just before the Sacramento and the Abraham Lincoln traded paint (and some topside equipment) in the Persian Gulf. That was followed shortly be a very real GQ alarm.

[@kevincrosby1760]

We had a Flight Crash actuator on the bridge as well, which was installed at the same time as the CCTV monitor covering the helo deck. You are correct that the alarms COULD be triggered from the IC Shop. The Alarm Oscillator which generated the alarm audio could be placed in the "Test" position, an alarm selected, then a button pushed to send the audio signal for the selected alarm to a local speaker. Failing to place it in "TEST" position and leaving it in "Normal" when testing the oscillator resulted in your failure to follow the proper procedure becoming known to everybody onboard as it hit the 1MC....

[@garthhorsnell924]

Love your work and I have learnt so much. Is there any chance of doing something on the lift rafts especially from the WW2 era

[@ObamaTookMyCat]

I dont know, me not being in the Navy and only hearing those alarms in movies, I think it would REALLY be beneficial to the immersion of the tour to be able to actually hear general quarters come through the 1MC speakers in one of the corridors of the ship.... It would really be a cool feature. Maybe implement a rule where if a tour guide was going to sound the 1MC general quarters alarm, go onto the 1MC and announce that it will be sounded for tour purposes and there is no emergency? Or only have it sound at set times during the day? Food for thought.

[@DanielsPolitics1]

I think there are veterans who would be deterred from visiting by that. Quite apart from the conditioned response, the worst things ever to happen in a lot of veterans’ lives happen shortly after they heard that noise

[@randyogburn2498]

While I can't say I wouldn't love to sound General Quarters on a battleship I have enough good manners not to. It's neat to know the systems still work after all these years. Perhaps there could be certain days out of the year where it could be planned in advance to sound the alarms. That way people it might upset would know not to visit that day.

[@silmarian]

Do you have recordings of the alarms she was built with, as opposed to the modern ones?

[@michaelsommers2356]

I don't think the sounds have changed. Why have any risk at all, when none is needed, of confusing people?

[@silmarian]

@@michaelsommers2356 Those sounds are very electronic-sounding. I found a video that has what the commenters called the "howler" which was used previously. kzbin.info/www/bejne/enSZo36tfKqgnK8

[@user2C47]

@@michaelsommers2356 Because this ship was built around the 1930s, before the 1MC (the system that generated these sounds) was invented.

[@michaelsommers2356]

@@user2C47 BB-62 was laid down in 1940. What is your source for the statement that the 1MC was invented before 1940?

[@BLT001]

00:10 And hold for laughs.....hold for laughs.... Love it!

[@norfolx]

USS Massachusets has had its alarm switches localized to a single room and ready for visitors to manhandle! I pulled all three, it did feel very satisfying.

[@phillyphakename1255]

"Do I have the urge to pull alarms" and "do I pull alarms" are two very different questions, and I have the correct answer to both: hell yeah, doesn't everybody? and hell no!

[@timothywalker4563]

I look for them but I won’t pull unless there’s a fire. I’m glad you played the sound for those alarms. Was there an “audio test” for sailors to memorize the sounds?

[@michaelsommers2356]

You only have to hear the alarms a time or two to know them. Besides, they are normally accompanied by an announcement.

[@psycocavr]

When I worked with the inspection board we had shipboard fires on three of the ships I was on. And yeah they had the general alarm but they immediately announced fire fire all flying cruise to wherever the fire was

[@TheWarthogInstitute]

Your fire alarm is a rapid ringing of the ship's bell over the 1MC followed by the announcement of the location of the fire and a warning to clear the passageways for the fire party.

[@Vnx]

The issue with guests messing with things reminds me of when I was at Drive a Tank. One of the supervisors was comparing some customers to "racoons" and saying they suffered from "SOS: Shiny Object Syndrome", wanting to push buttons inside the vehicles they really shouldn't.

[@datapoint6859]

The History Eraser Button scene in "Space Madness" where Stimpy is being hammered by the narrator to press the big red shiny is basically my brain every time I see a button. Generally speaking, I require adult supervision.

[@JohnRodriguesPhotographer]

Heard the general alarm near the White Cliffs of Dover. I was 7 on the USNS General Maurice Rose, out bound to New York. It seems the British Air sea rescue decided to have a drill at 10:00 at night and didn't bother to alert shipping in the area! As a result of the Titanic disaster when you see flares you go to the scene and attempt to render assistance. The crew were flying down the passageways pulling on their gear next thing you know the boats are going down on the davits. About then the British announced the training exercise.

[@klsc8510]

When I was in the USAF from 1973-79 and 83-84, I had access to the SAC Wing Command Posts. I knew where the button was to activate the base klaxon which would send the alert crews running to their aircraft (B-52s & KC0135s). I could have been shot if I had did it. Both controllers were armed with pistols. Once when doing the weekly PMI on the Alert Receive Panel, after per the PMI book notifying both controllers, I pushed the test button on the panel. The red light flashed and the klaxon (local to just the Command Post) sounded. In the Battle Staff room and officer in a flight suit (on alert) jumped up. The officer controller jumped up waving his arms yelling, "Just a test!" The alert crewman sat back down. The officer controller then apologized to me telling me I did nothing wrong. He had forgotten about the alert crewman!

[@jamesbateman1946]

To announce a fire, or any other casualty, the BMOW will ring the ship's bell into the 1MC microphone for five seconds, followed by one stroke for a forward space, two strokes for midships, and three strokes for aft. Then announce the type of casualty and then list the tack number for the effected space and the name of the effected space

[@williamfranklin6836]

I don't pull em unless they have something saying you can but boy when they got that sign, is a blast

[@actaeon299]

On SSN 611, the alarms were not only different colors, they had different shaped handles. General Alarm, Collision/Flooding Alarm, Power Plant Casualty Alarm (nuke) Dive/Surface Alarm

[@bulletsalad6914]

I would love to see one of the Iowa class battleship irl. The New Jersey is the closest I may have to make a weekend trip out of it!

[@captainscarlett1]

As a 12 year-old, I visited a US warship opened to the public in Fremantle, Western Australia. Expecting it to be disabled I flicked an alarm switch. Collision alarm. All hell broke loose as I slunk away. As with everything on a ship I expect the Captain was held responsible for negligence. Lol. I probably ruined his career.

[@billylozito1789]

the general alarm is the best sounding one!

[@freemanlevack6556]

I love how the chemical alarm at 5:07 sounds just like a censor bleep, for a second I thought Ryan was cussing his head off XD

[@sparkplug1018]

I'm like you, avoid it like it's hot, unless it needs to be pulled. That said, you mentioned they all still work, does the firing alarm for the guns still work?

[@1337flite]

ALARMING VIDEO!!!! I see what you did there!

[@oaw117]

You mentioned going back to pickup the spilled oil during the air crash alarm segment. How would that be done? I just figured spilled oil was lost.

[@ZGryphon]

When I was in the first grade, my class had one of those visit-from-the-fire-chief assemblies, during which we were solemnly assured by a man with an amazing mustache that if we pulled a fire alarm when there wasn't a fire, we would go to jail for 20 years. I suspected that wasn't true at the time and have _known_ it wasn't true for at least 40 years, but I still don't pull fire alarms, so I guess it worked. :)

[@Cleared_To_Land]

There's nothing like the love of hearing these alarms being tested first thing in the morning over the 1MC when you've just spent the whole night doing night flying!!! 😴😫

[@davidschick6951]

9:04 As part of passing the word that there is a fire on board, could the 1MC be opened, the quarterdeck bell be struck several times, and the verbal notification about the fire be passed?

[@MK0272]

Have you done a video covering the ship's NBC warfare defenses?

[@Jacob-W-5570]

I work as an merchant navy engineer, if I start pulling alarms as I see them I will have a very short carreer :D

[@antontalbot9148]

I've heard all ships leak at least a small amount of water, does new Jersey have bilge pumps? Do they run constantly or intermittently? If so do you know why or where water is getting in?

[@lauraaz3015]

After watching various WWII movies, I have always wanted to pull the general quarters. I even looked into ebay for a microphone that would plug into the MC boxes on the museum ships. No, I never followed through...yet :-)

[@Kevin-go2dw]

There is nothing like the evacuation alarm sounding at work when a fire detector has operated. Fortunately, most of the time it is a false alarm, but the evac alarm is by necessity loud and operates until the incident commander turns the thing off.

[@sethgraham9312]

Ryan in the interest of full disclosure I’d immediately send all the visitors on board to their battle stations if I got the chance.

[@martinwalker9386]

1975-76 I served on USS Samuel Gompers and there was a alarm that would sound automatically when power was lost. The engineers had to get to their stations before security forces got to their stations because no one was to move when the security guards were there. In 1979 or 1980 I was working in the dishwasher room on campus and was told that an alarm would sound if the soap got low. I wasn’t told what the alarm sounded like and it was the same alarm as loss of power. When it went off I was bouncing up and down trying to figure where my safe space was.

[@ritaloy8338]

Being a Navy veteran I have heard some of these alarms. Usually when you are out to sea you sound General Quarters. The Chemical Alarm, I never heard it. Same with collision alarm. I don't even remember if there were any collision or chemical alarms on either of my ships USS Jason (AR-8) or USS Rogers (DD-876). But pulling any alarm was a Big No No.

[@kevincrosby1760]

All three alarms were there. Standard for any surface ship. Chemical would ideally be sounded AFTER GQ, so it could have been drowned out in the excitement of being able to join 20 of your closest friends in a repair locker the size of a walk-in closet. In a nutshell, if you ever donned a MOPP suit and/or a gas mask during GQ, you just didn't hear the Chemical alarm. Collision would have came with "All hands brace for collision port/starboard side". All 4 (General/Chemical/Collision/Flight Crash) used to be a scheduled M1 on the PMS board, so you should have heard all 4 once a month or so.

[@johncipolla8335]

I keep missing this

[@DavidPirouet]

So as well as the fire alarm, an unexploded bomb or taking on water, would be a couple of verbal announcements, because of location, would the general alarm sound first to bring attention to the alarm system. You can have steam, chemical or fuel leaks and other hazardous conditions not caused by fire or collision. So the crew, may have to be trained specifically for it.

[@stevepotthast4911]

Does anyone know if Ryan has posted a video about the use of a bosun's pipe or bugle for 1MC announcements?

[@ARF407]

so now that i know thay work can i still pull them with out getting band :?

[@user-hj9ox4vm8g]

My man's ryan

[@Mark-lv1ub]

In the early 1980's, on board the USS Reeves, CG-24 (sunk by the Australian's in 2001, see the video on KZbin), we were occasionally given atropine injectors, which we were supposed to jam into our thighs, upon warning of a chemical attack. They would immediately collect these large, primitive pen needles to prevent any sailor from buying heroin in Hong Kong and using the atropine injector. Atropine increases the heart beat, which would (in theory), increase blood/oxygen flow, heading off the effects of some Soviet chemical weapons. It is still used today in ER's. MCI

[@MJTAUTOMOTIVE]

I have noticed on some private videos that have been taken aboard Museum ships the amount of people touching and turning Knobs and switches that they know nothing about. The disappointing thing is that it is Most of the time it is the adults doing it and not the children. On some videos there are even signs or even ropes or chains to stop people doing it, but they lean over and do it anyway. It does suck because you want to keep the ship the way it was in service, and not have a bunch of roped off and screened off sections and you should not have to spend money on signs and bunting and rope to stop people touching thing they should not be touching in the first place.

[@mrstrangetiger3228]

On a battle ship? I'm playing with the alarms. 🤣

[@neilwomack3324]

In the 70s onboard USS Denver. At 0200 Someone on the bridge accidently triggered the collision alarm. I grabbed my prestaged uniform and boots and ran. Broke two toes on a deck fitting.

[@foxbodyblues6709]

In my day I never heard the chemical or flight crash alarm…thankfully Being an unrep ship I heard collision frequently. It always meant “hey, let’s go see how close the other ship is”. Seems like underway QQ was called every week… 😮

[@douglasbrown7250]

I was on an UNREP ship as well. Only time we had the collision alarm go off was just before being run over by the Abraham Lincoln. That was followed shortly by a very real GQ, once the sound of rending metal stopped.

[@foxbodyblues6709]

@@douglasbrown7250 we never collided with a ship, fortunately. It was always emergency breakaway and turn away. The closest near collision was when the other ship lost steering and they were drifting towards us so we had to turn hard away at full throttle…

[@gbonkers666]

Alarming video.....I love puns!

[@jamespollock2500]

Modern have a CPS system Collective Protective System using HEPA filters and other items to create a positive pressure inside, so any external contamination is forced outward. The other alarms not covered are the ones in central contr

[@boblewis8463]

@Battleship New Jersey: Ryan, please, please, please learn to pronounce "nuclear." Your discussions are so brilliant, and then you hit "that" speedbump.

[@GeFlixes]

As a kid I had the pleasure once of being the one allowed to pull the fire alarm handle for the monthly fire drill.

[@olddog103]

Nothing gets your attention faster than fire, and “GENERAL QUARTERS, GENERAL QUARTERS THIS IS NOT A DRILL”

Extra points for Bad Puns😄