Why do some small stores have voice evac fire alarm systems?

[@sick.breaks]

Went to elementary school with you, was reminded of you when talking about fire alarms. pleasantly surprised your still passionate about this topic, awesome stuff

[@FireAlarmDude5967]

Hattie, I remember you from elementary school as well! I believe we were in the same 4th grade class with Ms. Martinez. I hope you’re doing well, it’s nice to hear from you

[@aerhardt]

4:08 This is true. Fore example, a Walmart in my area was built around 2014 with a voice evac system that also doubles as a paging and background music system. Also, at least in my area, all new schools must have voice evac.

[@michaelgrahamwongacutemadness]

I’ve seen videos of that a building that big alone makes sense to have it some small malls were replaced by one big store

[@Nicholasadventures]

I love the speaker strobes every single speaker. I love.

[@dabitzz]

there was a chinese buffet by my house that had a really nice spectra alert clasic voice evac system. When the pandemic hit, the restaurant closed, and didn't reopen until about 9 months ago because someone bought it. when it reopened, the voice evac system had been removed and was replaced with l-series horn strobes. i think it was pretty weird that they had a voice evac system in there, but it was sad to see it go

[@aidanthetoiletelevatorfire7554]

Awesome explanation. Is a good explanation of why buildings need voice evacuation systems.

[@dale4231]

This is a well produced video! Even standalone small stores commonly have voice systems now. The benefits of voice systems are very great. The only time where I don’t see a voice system as ever being necessary is in a small, standalone building. Even a normal grocery store I think should always have voice.

[@waffiewitch]

Something I notice is that larger restaurants in specifically Florida all seem to have voice evac systems. Even standalone chain restaurants like olive garden are like that there, unlike other states.

[@michellebianchi4847]

As someone who lives in a major city, I’ve always wondered this. Great explanation!

[@Camporito25]

Awesome explanation. Is a good explanation of why some buildings need voice evacuation systems.

[@ExitSignAficionado]

I work in a large factory with a voice alert system. there are red GE loudspeaker horns everywhere and a mix of spectlert and spectralert advance strobes everywhere. Oddly they do not play an evacuation message or even an emulated code 3 alarm, it it a repeditive high to low pitch for thr fire alarm. The other side of the factory has intrinsically safe horns, steobes, and pull stations. A mix of weelock and edwards, but i do not go t to go on that side of the building often. The intrinsically safe horns are continuous tone when the fire alarm goes off though.

[@spatcherw.keyboardsandbaby8586]

On the contrary my apartment building is a 10-story high rise with 150 apartments, but it has a grandfathered traditional horn system. They did technically upgrade the system in 2019, but they chose to grandfather in a horn system rather than putting in a voice system, which beats me. I would have opted for the voice myself since it's a large building. They did replace the Wheelock 7002s, with EST Genesis, and replace the IRC3 with an EST3 panel, and a few other components, but it is still a traditional horn system, there's no speakers.

[@TyConSherriM]

I’ve seen voice evac systems in gas stations that were their own building

[@JoshCraver9000]

There are voice evac systems in some Walmarts and Sam's Clubs.

[@Mrbushhasabigbushdownthere]

The alarm at 2:57 uses a Notifier System, most of USC does Source: I've seen it go off in March 2020. Does code-3

[@FireAlarmDude5967]

Yes, the new systems at the village all play a code three tone and then play the “fire alarm reported” message

[@LukeDoyle-fl4wd]

I wonder why a lot of stores have this same exact set up where you have random fire alarms, with green strobe commander 3s around the doors. A grey colored spirnkler bell right next to some sort of ademco 702

[@FireAlarmDude5967]

The green strobe is probably a shoplift alarm

[@simonthetrainguy]

I see speaker strobes a lot at movie theaters in Colorado

[@pfefferwal]

General signals in the beginning and 1:04 also my local walmart has a wheelock speaker strobe system

[@ronaldgibson1274]

At our local mall, the new Round 1 arcade has a voice evac system but the whole rest of the mall just has horn strobes. Why do you think the Round 1 arcade has that type of alarm and the new Target store and everywhere else do not?

[@TFEAS-09]

Although not a regulation to have voice evac, NZ alarm systems are usually ALWAYS paried with a "Pertronic" EVAC50W24V voice/tone amplifier, making each system have the ability to have a voice with different tones. Although one tone is usually used (under NZS 4512:2010 regulations), many can be chosen with a voice evac. Most buildings in NZ have one tone, but it completely varies on the system age and devices used depending on what the owner of said shops want. So, you'll never really find a code 3 tone, or anything such, just the same tone used over and over again as of NZS 4512:2010.

[@Neptunesalad12]

Cant wait to see what you have for the April system test (great video as well)

[@Aviation129]

Very nice video! Just came back from Disney World and I saw a lot of wheelock speaker strobe devices, also some Wheelock AS’s and a few Gentex Commander 3’s

[@firepro-squad7778]

Interesting topic! Thanks for the information!

[@zaynmasalkhi2303]

That Gentex SHG remote strobe you talked about last video was actually called Gentex GXS.

[@FireAlarmDude5967]

The last video was about a smoke alarm so I don’t know what you’re referring to

[@jeffreysrailfanning2817]

When did speaker strobes come out like the 1990s when the Ada was passed?

[@SimplexTBarGuy]

Perfect explanation.

[@That_2_guy2T]

Theres a teen challenge thrift store i know of thats in a complex from what i remember and it has E70 speaker/strobes.

[@michaelgrahamwongacutemadness]

0:40 wow so is the genesis really so old that the l-series speakers replaced them

[@vinnieversaci452]

My old elementary school is installing voice evac it's small school to

[@westvirginiascoolestcanadian]

i’ve never actually seen/heard a voice evac in real life. all the buildings on my campus are old as hell.

[@gradientgamer5480]

Walmart is no stranger to a voice evac system, infact they are also used as general intercoms

[@IanGSully]

My old Middle School used to have a Simplex system. I believe a Simplex 4100U but I could be wrong. But it got replaced with a Notifier Voice Evac system. I bet a NFS2-640 or NFS2-3030 but am not sure.

[@YourAlarmist]

In an assembly occupancy typically 300 people or more the intent is to try and counter group adaptive behavior. This is the tendency of lager groups of people to not leave without specific instructions to do so. In other words scientific studies show that the crowd won’t leave without instructions. This is why you see voice evacuation systems in churches, theaters, and other types of gathering spaces.

[@FireAlarmDude5967]

Good information. Makes a lot of sense, crowd mentality is usually pretty common and people just remain out until others leave or they’re told to do so

[@alexandersalarms5380]

Florida be like (joke poking at floridas insane amount of voice evac)

[@Hellogelloeee]

Great video

[@iansanchez1470]

I was wondering why my Walmart has Voice evac until i watched this video BTW my city had EST Voice evac because there we're retail, apartment, hotels, and even government services for passport, deparment of motor vehicles, etc

[@FireSystem45]

Nice video, but what’s with the plain speaker strobes in the Trader Joe’s?

[@FireAlarmDude5967]

The USC village has fire alarm devices with no marking

[@Mrbushhasabigbushdownthere]

Idk, the rest of USC Village has none of that for some reason. The USC Campus does have alarms with markings though/

[@FireAlarmDude5967]

All of the USC village has unmarked devices

[@4j12m]

I needed this! Cool video

[@FireExtinguisherEnthusiast]

Awesome video!

[@The-creator-of-good-videos-15]

Hello, I love your fire alarm videos, very impressed. About that “destroy my house” thing: Please don’t destroy your house, it’s very beautiful. I just wanted to say that it’s nice. Because I saw it in that Christmas fire alarm video. But I still love your content. Also, what’s the grey fire alarm with the blue strobe? I’m intrigued to find out!

[@FireAlarmDude5967]

Thank you! I wasn’t exactly planning to destroy my house but I appreciate the thought

[@The-creator-of-good-videos-15]

@@FireAlarmDude5967 Yes, nice house! Very well built! I also love the fire alarm videos and your explanations of the fire alarm devices like, e.g.: Why are they important?, what do they sound like?, where are they used?, when are they activated?, and all that stuff… whatever, but cool videos!

[@Ericlovestrains]

First Photo do you have a video of it or it’s a image from Google

[@United_airlines2424]

1:05 what is that gentex commander 3 for

[@soda_coir7595]

Looks like either a police alarm, or door alarm. Maybe one of those or something else.

[@MrKal222]

But it doesn't matter why there's fire alarm system in small stores it really doesn't matter

[@captainchris2016]

You skipped that all schools are required to have voice evac now when going over what kinds of buildings are required too

[@idkanymore9590]

My school doesn’t have voice evac

[@alarmsandamtrak]

@@idkanymore9590 It's a code in the United States now, but if your school was built before the code became a thing, there doesn't need to be a voice evac system unless they replace the system.

[@idkanymore9590]

@@alarmsandamtrak gotcha. They replaced the system in December of 2022. Did this just now become a code?

[@aerhardt]

@@idkanymore9590It was very recently.

[@idkanymore9590]

@@aerhardt I see

[@Earth_Number_12]

Malls have that

[@aidanthetoiletelevatorfire7554]

Not all malls have voice evacuation systems

[@tyroneblackman4251]

Please recreate your first video

[@Ldypowerful]

Yo, wsp Tim

[@FireAlarmDude5967]

What’s up Landin

[@Ldypowerful]

Tim Zhang

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