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Old Nov 27, 2010 | 7:59 am
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DTW - Sirens in terminal A

So randomly in terminal A sirens are going off with white strobes flashing. It just ran for about 20 minutes. Then a recording started occassionally chiming in. I couldn't hear the full recording. I could only make out emergency and don't use the elevators. I couldn't stick around to figure it out since I was boarding though.

Anyone have any idea what it is?
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Old Nov 28, 2010 | 8:43 am
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Originally Posted by Dallen
So randomly in terminal A sirens are going off with white strobes flashing. It just ran for about 20 minutes. Then a recording started occassionally chiming in. I couldn't hear the full recording. I could only make out emergency and don't use the elevators. I couldn't stick around to figure it out since I was boarding though.

Anyone have any idea what it is?
I wonder if this was just an open door alarm ?-- anything more serious and they wouldn't have let you board.

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Old Nov 28, 2010 | 6:09 pm
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white stobes are generally fire protection, from someone tripping the alarms to breaking off sprinkler heads (fun times), but you can generally silence them pretty quick.
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Old Nov 28, 2010 | 10:10 pm
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An open door alarm would have only the light at that gate flashing. If lights flashed up and down the concourse, it was a fire alarm that was probably set off accidentally.
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Old Nov 30, 2010 | 12:24 pm
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Possibly fire alarm maintenance. Used to get that one place I worked. They would announce ahead of time that it was going to happen, and if there was a real fire they would tell us over the PA.
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