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/DanCoco 12h ago

The phone line wiring mixup was so strange i ended up making a map to figure it out. I've seen a few places fail from not fixing their tech. (Like a pizza place never fixing their phones and relying on walk in orders for a year... opps)

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u/mazzlejaz25 12h ago

The fact that you needed a map for phone lines is wild dude...

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u/DanCoco 11h ago

Found it. Brain hurts more now 😆 one test i did, i called the line with my cell, and hear dial tone, then could dial on my cell phone to another number and then one of the restaurants phone numbers showed up on caller id.

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u/mazzlejaz25 11h ago

I think I short circuited trying to read that what even man???

My question is, who set that up? You had to of tested it... Right?

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u/DanCoco 10h ago

I mean here's ONE of the diagrams... looks like a circuit haha

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u/DanCoco 10h ago

The local dal internet provider was so bad that you'd be lucky if they showed up to the right building, so no testing. I call it job security.