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Class change bell was a short tone over the PA.

Fire alarms at all schools I attended were Edwards six inch or twelve inch bells. Beautiful sound.

When I attended Colerain High here in Cincy they had a simplex master clock and P.A. system 70s circa (still used) and a simplex fire alarm system with square horn buzzers much like the Federal Signal Vibratone Horns (still used as well). Bell change is a single xylophone tone via P.A. By the way i've been to Mt.Shasta beautiful place words can't describe. My mom used to live in Susanville CA. ,but has since passed on.

Jpressman8 wrote: My mom used to live in Susanville CA. ,but has since passed on.

I'm sorry about your mother. Mine passed away four years ago, and she was raised in Herlong, not far from Susanville.

My school currently uses an electronic bell that plays on the PA system, but there standard electric bells and pull stations all around the school but they aren`t used now,
I`m going to try to get a pull station and a bell because the school is being torn down in two years, it was built in 1959.

Daniel wrote:

Jpressman8 wrote: My mom used to live in Susanville CA. ,but has since passed on.

I'm sorry about your mother. Mine passed away four years ago, and she was raised in Herlong, not far from Susanville.

Thanks Daniel it's most appreciated and likewise. I,ve been to Herlong as well. Near Honey Lake. I had gone out that way near the Army depot to watch them detonate expired munitions.

Elementary school 1-2 (changed schools) Edwards Adaptabells, and I believe a Simplex master clock system. fire alarm, 3rd generation Simplex/IBM 4030-2s and 4251-11 chevron pulls.

elementary school 2-3 (changed schools again) no bells, no master clock, just those cheap plastic chock hung on the walls. Fire alarm newer wing FCI system with FCI labeled Vibratone 450s with those wedge shaped strobes, FCI MS-2 pulls under Stopper II covers. I believe some sort of Ademco smokes scatter around. Older section, same as newer bell and master clock wise. fire alarm Edwards 871 AC adaptahorns paired with a red wedge incandescent light, and 270-SPOs under stopper IIs. No smokes, but some old Chemtronics "bell" heats in the rooms.

Elementary school 4-5 Edwards master clock system. Bells: 10" Adaptabells in the halls, and outside, a 4" adaptabell in the cafeteria, and Dixie Buzzers behind the clocks. Fire alarm: Edwards 892-2Bs, with 270-SPOs under them. Very hard to hear in class. Also classic Edwards Ion smokes in the halls

Middle School. Simplex Master Clock. Bell: tone over intercom, 10" bell of some sort outside (guessing an Adaptabell mounted way up on a wall). Fire alarm: old system (6th-part of 7th) 1st generation IBM 4030-1s, and Wheelock 7004s in the basement, Gamewell M non coded boxes. New system (part of 7th-8th) Wheelock MT4s set to continuous horn, Edwards 890 speaker/strobes in the audutorum, which do a slow whoop, and a evacuation message. 270-SPOs scattered around. Smokes were a mix of Edwards classic ions at each fire door on both sides, and a Simplex labled ESL smokes as an elevator smokes on each level.

Also right next door was Portland (CT) engine co 1. formally used a 12 port 5, but by the time I got there, they disconnected the 5, and put a WS 2016 in installed for the now closed Ct Yankee power plant, on the school's lawn in use as the fire siren. Wail was used for fire calls, "noon test" for it's intended purpose, and alert for the yearly plant siren test. The 2016 was taken down when the plant closed in 1998, the 5 also disappeared around that time too.

high School 9-10 (moved to NC) no master clock system just cheap plastic wall clocks. bells: one 6" adaptabells in each doorway, and dixie buzzers hidden in the walls. Fire alarm: Vibratone 350 under FG grills which did the 4-4 code, and Gamewell M boxes. As I was leaving they were installing Wheelock ET-LSM speaker/strobes, and Fire-Lite BG-8 pulls, which I never got ot hear. In the rec hall, no bells or master clock. Fire alarm, 1st generation IBM 4030-1s, and 874 Adaptahorns, with Simplex 4251-20 T bar pulls. I only got to hear that system once, on my last day when someone pull it as a prank after I got to leave class early (they knew I had nothing to do with it).

High School 10-12. surprisingly for a big school, no master clock system. Bells: a tone over the intercom used for 3 purposes, class change, bomb threat/fire, tornado. Class change was a 5 second tone, bomb threat/fire was a 1-2 minute steady tome, tornado was a pulsed tone only ued once a year durring severe weather awareness week. Fire alarm: Notifire system. Panel was way up on a wall to prevent vandalism/tampering. a mix of MT-WMs and MT-LSM all set to continious horn, System Sensor 2400 smokes scatter about, a few well hidden NBG-10s.

There was also a fire station about 3 blocks away that used an STH-10 for fire calls only (the 1st one I got to see or hear). The FD moved, switched from volunteer to paid, and left the STH to rot away on it's pole. Last I checked the STH is gone do to 2 new buildings put on the site of the old FD.

In elementary school, we had mechanical bells inside and out, plus Simplex 4050s. Those 4050s will be a sound I remember my whole life - they sound so much lower-pitched than the other fire alarms I've heard...and they always made a whirring noise between blasts, don't know what's up with that.

At the first middle school I went to, bells were mechanical outdoors with an flat tone over the PA indoors. I don't remember the fire alarms, but I only went there a couple of months.

The other junior high school had mechanical bells outdoors, with an electronic tone indoors that sounded exactly like a phone ringing. Don't remember the fire alarms here either, but they used a continuous tone during drills.

High school now, still have mechanical outdoor bells, indoors there's a tone nearly identical to the phone-tone from junior high. Fire alarms are Simplex TruAlerts in the hallways and 4903s in the rooms.

I've got videos of the alarms and outdoor bells in this thread. The bells can be heard in the siren video after the test.
http://www.airraidsirens.com/forums/vie ... php?t=9181