Oops! Fire alarm.

[DHTiling]

Working in old peeps sheltered housing and I set the fire alarm off , and it connected straight to fire station. Ooops!

Out comes fireman Sam and I got told off. :lol:

Sweeping dust up from plumbers and the dust set it off , very sensitive.

All taped up , plumber normally cover it but I never noticed.

 

[afright]

I did that once in a Sainsburys sava centre they cleared the whole supermarket was cutting of the architrave,s with my grinder burning wood set the alarm off this was years ago before the Fein was out got a right ticking off dread to think how much money they lost,never done it again.

 

[Ian]

I've done it in a hotel, decided to use my grinder in the room instead of going all the way downstairs to cut outside, the dust set the alarm off! I got a right old telling off from the manager, only did it once!

 

[bugs183]

I've been working on New Street Station, one guy was supposed to be cutting steel with a saw, found a stihl saw and cut it with that. Set the alarm off, then the next one, this shuts down the station automatically!!
Full evacuation, fire crews, police, trains stopped!!!
That little bit of 'time saving' cost the main contractor £850,000!!!!!!!!
Massive Oooops!!!!!

 

[Ian]

This is gonna be a good thread!

 

[bugs183]

My stupidest (so far) is spending a friday night prepping a floor with Ditra, needed to get the job done, i was rushing as the pub was calling, then i cut through the burglar alarm cable, couldn't turn it off as it was in tamper mode, it took hours for the bloke to turn up.
I wasn't popular!

 

[Deleted member 9966]

At least they won't have to do an "unexpected" fire drill later in the year. It could have been worse, it could have been raining or snowing!

 

[afright]

Another silly incident when I was an apprentice was taking up a grano floor in the police cells at the local cop shop,had to ask the duty officer to open the electric cell door to the outside, this time he was not around so I lent over his desk press the button going out the door with the barrow to the skip next thing I am on my back ,a prisoner made a dash for freedom they caught him down the road,I had to go in front of the top man they wanted to know if I knew the prisoner.that was scary.

 

[DHTiling]

Well the warden came out , proper bee in her bonnet. So told off twice in one day , like being back at school.

:lol:

 

[Andy Allen]

Working in old peeps sheltered housing and I set the fire alarm off , and it connected straight to fire station. Ooops!

Out comes fireman Sam and I got told off. :lol:

Sweeping dust up from plumbers and the dust set it off , very sensitive.

All taped up , plumber normally cover it but I never noticed.

Its the plumbers fault then.....lol

 

[mz30]

Well the warden came out , proper bee in her bonnet. So told off twice in one day , like being back at school.

:lol:

Talkin about schools ,my wife a few years back went to put my eldest daughters name at the local school and on her way out the secretary said just press that button on the left to get out ,my missus accidently put her finger through the break glass and set off the fire alarm,was driving away when the fire brigade turned up and all the kids were in the yard

 

[Fliselege]

When I was with the last company I worked in a resteraunt, every July they shut down for the month and for 5 years running I'd go in and chop out and replace all the tiles the chefs dropped their pans on. Every year I'd turn on the powerful extractor systen and get busy with the grinder. The last time I did it I forgot to turn the extractor on. Had my peltor radio ear defenders on and what with the noise of the grinder didn't hear I'd set the alarm off which had been going a good 10 mins or so. Happened to look up, there was the manager and a bunch of firemen, and considering I thought I was in the kitchen alone, I jumped out of my skin, much to the amusement of the manager and the firemen so didn't get told off, just felt like a right twonk. Glad I didn't do it the next day, it was 2 blocks away from where that Bvreivik monster set the bomb off and the firemen had their work cut out for them that day as it was.

 

[John Benton]

Its the plumbers fault then.....lol

That's exactly what I was going to say Andy, they always leave their rubbish behind for someone else to clear up

 

[Bubblecraft]

That happened to me when I worked at Ingliston Equestrian Centre. Little embarrassing