[SML] Fire Alarms and Concerts

[Bill Conner]

It's unfortunate that the conventional wisdom seems to be to turn off
the sound, and maybe lights, in an emergency when crowd management is
required as the most successful examples of emergent crowd management
have been live people - usually a performer - directing the assembly
in real time. Goes back to at least Eddie Foy on stage at the Iroquois
Theatre at the time of that emergency.  Leaving the management of 500
or 5000 or more people assembled to a recording made months or years
earlier is insane.

On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 2:09 PM Stephen Litterst via Stagecraft
<stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
>
> Our new-ish performing arts center has dedicated audio outlets on an
> isolated ground.  External audio systems are *supposed* to be plugged
> into them.  Those outlets are on the same shunt breaker as the house
> audio system and are cut off when a fire alarm is triggered.
>
> Steve L.
>
> On 2/12/20 1:30 PM, Fritz, Barry via Stagecraft wrote:
> > A discussion arose at a meeting this morning regarding emergency alarms/announcements and events with loud sound systems.  The audio system in one of our new venues has overrides built in to cut audio when the alarm system and emergency announcement are activated.  The question that came up is what happens when there is a concert with an outside sound company providing audio.
> >
> > What is the standard industry practice/policy dealing with an external concert/loud event audio system and being able to hear the emergency alarms?
> >
> > Barry
> >
> >
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