Long day at hotel and still have 4 more hours

[hotelslave]

So when I get into work tonight the front desk supervisor tells me that the fire alarm has been going off and finally got shut off. Turns out one of the housekeepers almost fell and tried to stop her fall by grabbing the fire alarm. I knew it was going to be a long night then. So then the fire department pulls up to clear the call we have to make. So I thought well at least I can see some cute fire men. No luck there just two firewomen came in. So around 545 or so the fire alarm starts going off again while I am checking in a line of people of course. So I dial 911 to shut it off and deal with people telling them to evacuate the building in the cold. Turns out when lady grabbed the alarm she kind of broke it. This time though I got to see some eye candy . The thing that bothered me is that while I was dealing with the 911 operator this lady was getting pissy b/c I wasn't devoting my entire attention to her. I am just hoping the rest of my shift goes better. Or I may post more. The joy of working in a hotel. Yuck.

[Antisocial_Worker]

Our fire alarm spazzed once after high winds kept knocking our power out for a few minutes at a time once. Eventually it went off and we absolutely could not get it to stop, and we had to shut off the power to it. A good time was had by all.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Fire alarms do tend to go nuts when the power goes out. We had a bad storm this summer that knocked out power to just about the entire city and when the juice got flowing again, there was one call after another for the fire department to clear fire alarms.

In fact, I think that is why the fire department hung around at our strip mall all afternoon when the power went off there last week. They must not have wanted to come back and clear all the fire alarms that would've gone off when the power came back on.

[Becks]

The thing that bothered me is that while I was dealing with the 911 operator this lady was getting pissy b/c I wasn't devoting my entire attention to her.

And if it had been a REAL emergency, would she have wanted you to carry her out of the building?

[Cia]

Damn, she must have really knocked the manual station loose if it kept going into alarm.

[Brighid45]

Quick thread hijack:

Oh lordie, fire alarms and malfunctions of same! Let me tell you about a few from my days in security center hell.

My first 'real' alarm was the very first one I ever took as a trainee, and it was a fire alarm. The homeowner answered the phone inside his burning house. He was trying to make the alarm stop. Both my supervisor and I couldn't get it through his head that it was the wires burning up in the walls that made the alarm keep sounding. We did finally get him out of the house though, and he was okay. Found out later the house was totalled. It was a kitchen grease fire.

Had a customer in Las Vegas whose smoke detectors kept going off for what seemed like no reason . . . until she said "Oh, could it be those wildfires down the road?" Later on that year another customer had to uninstall her heat sensors. The air coming in the windows during the day was setting them off.

Worked with another customer who was fleeing his neighborhood in the '03 Ventura County fires. He was on his cell phone with me, driving hell for leather and cursing with rage while chunks of his burning house fell on his car.

Okay, thread unhijacked.

[Tanasi]

One summer during college I was an RA on the first floor in a building other than my own. I had the closest room to the front office and bathroom. The first morning I was left in charge in a strange building the firealarm goes off. The alarm panel said the smoke detector right outside my room was the culprit. Well no smoke no fire. I clear it and go back to bed. A few minutes later same thing. After a few days of this I finally figure out the steam from the showers was making the SA think there was a fire. I put in a work order to move the SA but they come and look at it and leave it because the fire plan shows it's where it's supposed to be. Changing the fireplan took an act of the Good Lord and Congress translation no-way-in heck. So from that time on everytime I was in charge and it went off I hustled everyone out of the building until the FD cleared the building. So after the 8th or 9th time I cleared the building (sometime having nekkid co-ed in towels and robes running from the building) mutilple complaints ensured and the fire plan was changed. Basically maintenance moved the ceiling tile from one space to another and it didn't require any rewiring.