Why do Fire Alarms in New York City Have a White Stripe on Them?

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@ExitSign250 4 ай бұрын

Interesting to learn about! I always thought the strip was a visibility requirement. But the indication if a system is local or not is a neat idea! Great video.

@whynotjustmyusername 4 ай бұрын

There is a very similar standard in Germany. Fire alarm call stations that are linked to the fire service are red and are labelled "Feuerwehr", whereas alarm stations that only activate the local evacuation alarm are blue.

@dasy2k1 4 ай бұрын

One of the things I find interesting is that the USA has pull stations that you inevitably pull some form of handle.... Here in the UK and in most of the rest of Europe it is a break glass station... A spring loaded button is held depressed by a small pane of glass. You smash that glass and the alarm is triggered.... This evolved into ones where the glass was a specially scored plate that would neatly snap when pushed hard (the button is on the top) And later to a plastic panel that just bends out of the way releasing the button and resetable with a special key

@FireAlarmDude5967 4 ай бұрын

Yes, call points vs pull stations

@swaggydraggy69 4 ай бұрын

i’m not really in the fire alarm community but i find your videos strangely compelling - mainly because you are, like, super knowledgeable and it piques my curiosity. appreciate the content :>

@PaulFisher 4 ай бұрын

Hearing somebody explain obscure details about something they’re passionate about is one of the great delights of KZbin.

@sunsetsoundstudios2638 4 ай бұрын

I'll be going to New York next year with my high school band. As someone who likes taking pictures of fire alarms, This will surely be a great addition to my photos.

@jameshamilton413 4 ай бұрын

In my 100 year old apartment at 116 oak grove Minneapolis - our fire alarm went off for a grease fire in an apartment in the basement - the building evacuated and the fire continued for another 10 minutes with everyone standing outside with the fire alarm sounding - we finally realized we had to call the fire department but there was a significant delay in responding We called the building inspectors and fire marshals office and asked wtf and they said they weren’t required to automatically dial the fire department because it was grandfathered in That’s extremely stupid - I found out the building had a horrible deadly fire in the 1940s and was gutted but I feel like the stripe would be a good thing to know because our landlord refused to upgrade the fire alarm because they were cheap I thought that it was an extremely dangerous and reckless public policy for high density multi family dwelling that would eventually get people killed

@FireAlarmDude5967 4 ай бұрын

Right. That sounds dangerous.

@lackedpuppet9022 4 ай бұрын

With all the mention of the World Trade Center in this, I'd _love_ for you to do a comprehensive video on the fire alarms of the original complex! I've heard a lot of conflicting accounts of what it was like (especially as it pertained to tenant spaces,) and I would absolutely adore a video like this one on that topic. Subbed! ❤

@FireAlarmDude5967 4 ай бұрын

Perhaps. I think that would be an interesting video!

@HappyJigg 4 ай бұрын

I have a couch / faraday coded pull that has a white stripe decal on it. I think it's super cool, especially now knowing that it was on a monitored system.

@UncommonElevators 4 ай бұрын

The Port Authority Bus Terminal has an old-style coded fire alarm system, although the signals have been upgraded to Wheelock MT. I was there when it went off once. I don't remember which pattern it sounded that time, but I never thought those kind of systems would still be in use in such a big building. The staff shut it off pretty quickly.

@adamk9652 4 ай бұрын

3:11 one of the local colleges used to have that same pullstation cover... In Massachusetts,before the old system was replaced with Advances, L Series Classics, and Exceeders.

@Silverfoxwolfen 4 ай бұрын

I think I learnt a lot of companies don't know what 1" is on the various stripes featured. I do love the ones that have been painted on, very much an individual touch.

@firepro-squad7778 4 ай бұрын

A very well put together video! Thank you for this explanation.

@TFEAS-09 4 ай бұрын

This was an awesome info video. I've never questioned it, and i thought it was just design choice, but now that i see more with my followers, I did sort of question the streaks.. this makes total sense now!

@Official_LAC-g1g 4 ай бұрын

Yea it’s very interesting when I went to NYC 2 weeks ago I saw a bunch of these white striped pulls.

@alexandersalarms5380 4 ай бұрын

The panels, command centers and equipment is also marked with a stripe if it dials out to the FDNY :)

@SirensAndAlarmsOfNorthernIL 3 ай бұрын

0:23 that might very well likely be a Firecom 8500 system bc of the fire warden telephone. If so, that’s epic af

@FireAlarmDude5967 3 ай бұрын

Pretty sure it is

@SirensAndAlarmsOfNorthernIL 3 ай бұрын

@@FireAlarmDude5967 hope it’s still there lol. We really need a video of a fire alarm tech testing a Firecom 8500 system…I also wonder if the Firecom 8500 had walk test mode and what would the alarms do when a zone is tripped…I think it would prb he either 2 sets of chime, or 4x whoop if it even has that feature ofc

@BotvacProductions469 3 ай бұрын

2:36 aed inside. can you do avideo about those?

@FireAlarmDude5967 3 ай бұрын

Perhaps.

@BotvacProductions469 3 ай бұрын

@@FireAlarmDude5967 ok

@FireAlarm33 4 ай бұрын

Very interesting!!! I did not know the stripe had a purpose. I thought it was just the way they made them.

@TyroneBrown-mz9qi 4 ай бұрын

A diagonal stripe would also help in low visibility situations.

@4j12m 4 ай бұрын

That’s so cool! Good video

@B9L3_Official 4 ай бұрын

This is interesting I actually saw the trim plate with the white stripe on ebay

@rondo122 4 ай бұрын

great info! thanks

@jacksonicecreamtruckrailfa1370 3 ай бұрын

I been to New York City and I seen the fire alarms everywhere but I didn’t see the pull stations all I now is that I saw the real alarms in the building I went at time square

@FireAlarmDude5967 3 ай бұрын

Cool

@josephfrye7342 4 ай бұрын

Bizzarely interesting

@rhenebury 4 ай бұрын

Interesting!

@bokon157 4 ай бұрын

Woah! I never knew this

@quentk8886 4 ай бұрын

When I was in Knoxville, it seemed like every building had a shunt trip button or pull station, any idea why this is, and why that’s not common elsewhere?

@FireAlarmDude5967 4 ай бұрын

Good question. I’ll look into it

@GaryBeltz 4 ай бұрын

If they had wanted to distinguish that the systems were monitored, some signage near the pull stations would've been sufficient.

@FireAlarmDude5967 4 ай бұрын

True

@LXXero 4 ай бұрын

the white stripes on that old acme pull are actually just vinyl stickers, so whomever put them on just did it backwards.

@neohistoryfan1014 4 ай бұрын

my dad's oldest brother has lived in NYC since 1984--I bet he knows all the local codes. i'll have to share this with him. I had no clue the stripe was for distinguishing between an evacuation system versus a fully automatic one--very interesting I think there may have been some ACME systems in Cleveland too.

@majesticcrane9962 3 ай бұрын

NYC fire alarms with diver down

@joshlambeth9200 4 ай бұрын

This is cool

@AnthonySmoot 4 ай бұрын

When’s the next system test

@FireAlarmDude5967 4 ай бұрын

As always, last Friday of the month

@coreymcmillan3312 4 ай бұрын

Why the stripe ?

@FireAlarmDude5967 4 ай бұрын

I wonder why

@Aviation129 4 ай бұрын

Interesting

@itsjellyjamjam1159 4 ай бұрын

can u explain why some fire alarms have a push button and a pull button in another video please?

@FireAlarmDude5967 4 ай бұрын

What? Are you referring to dual action pull stations?

@itsjellyjamjam1159 4 ай бұрын

@@FireAlarmDude5967 yes

@markrix 4 ай бұрын

Did we ever find out why thay one Congress man pulled the fire alarm for no reason about a year ago? Wouldnt that be almost identical to jan 6 type charges? Disruption of offical proceeding??

@FireAlarmDude5967 4 ай бұрын

No. January 6th was an insurrection incited by someone who wanted to overturn a federal election. Pulling a fire alarm is a misdemeanor offense. I suppose you could make the argument that it’s obstruction of an official proceeding, but it’s nowhere near the scale of what happened when someone who lost an election rallied supporters who then broke into the capitol and tried to kill people.

@markrix 4 ай бұрын

@@FireAlarmDude5967 right, did the guy ever explain why he did it?