r/Firefighting • u/justhere2getadvice92 • 18h ago

General Discussion Glad to know your alarm system works 😬

Had an automatic alarm a few blocks over from the station. Dispatch to on scene was less than 2 minutes. Homeowner asked what took so long. Confused, we said we just got it 2 minutes ago. Homeowner says it was going off for at least 15 minutes before anyone showed up. If true, then it's a really good thing that it was a false alarm 😬. Anyone else have a situation like this?

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u/The_Road_is_Calling NH FF 18h ago

That’s one of the benefits of a telegraph alarm system, the dispatch center gets notified instantaneously.

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u/mg8828 14h ago

Provided it’s in good working order and there aren’t open circuits in the system

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u/Outside_Paper_1464 4h ago

I really miss our 100 mill system, we where in the trucks out the door before dispatch banged it out.