Despina83

Hmm, I don't remember anything by the fitting rooms. Were they big strobes like what I'm talking about or was it something different?

You're lucky it never went off when you were a little kid, you might have had bad dreams about it like I did, haha. I was riding in the cart with my grandma in the automotive section when someone went out the emergency door and it went off almost over my head. Not good for a four or five year old kid that's already afraid of her own shadow! After that my big brother used to freak me out by pretending that he was going to go charging through the emergency exit and I'd hold my ears and yell at him not too. I imagine it must not be all that rare of an occurence for one to go off, seeing as when I went there last month it was the first time in at least a year that I'd been there and the one in HBC was going off. And I heard an employee say "someone set the fire alarm off again." So you say you remember silent flashers? Was that the amber colored strobe in front of guest service? I could swear that's what it used to be used for, but from what I remember, it definetely was not silent. The odd thing is that it's the same exact strobe as the red ones around the store, but I recall this one having a different sound like "woowoowoowoo", quite different from the red alarms. It would last for a few seconds and then they'd made a page over the loud speaker. But maybe my memory of that is off. I'd like to learn anything anybody knows about these strobes if anyone happens to know or remember anything. Obviously the two red strobes above the emergency exits are fire alarms, but I'm curious as to the purpose of some of the seemingly randomly placed ones.

Sorry, I know this topic is a little old but I wanted to mention something about the 54th/Clyde Park Meijer. Anybody else ever notice the strange fire alarms they have there? They have six of those big red strobes mounted on the ceiling throughout the store. One at the emergency exit in HBC, one at the emergency exit in media, one above the employees-only swinging doors in sporting goods, one above another employees-only swinging door near hardware, one in frozen foods, and one in the main grocery aisle that runs past where the old bottle return used to be. I was at the store on Saturday Apr. 17 and the alarm in HBC was going off. I thought that was cool because I haven't seen one of those alarms go off since I was about four or five years old back around 1990 and it terrifed me. They make a freaky "wah, wow, wah, wow" sound. I believe the one in frozen foods is just the strobe with no sounder. You can see it's mounted differently with the sounder removed. They also have an amber colored strobe up near guest service. Anyone have any idea what that one is for? It seems like when I was a little girl, THAT one would go off all the time. I seem to remember it always going off for a few seconds before they made a page over the loud speaker. I could be wrong though. I wonder if it's used for anything nowadays. Anyone have any information on these strobe/sounder alarms?