[SML] Fire Alarms and Concerts

[Pietrie, Joe]

to give a humorous tilt to this, I work in a high school.  We were doing a
band concert for the veterans.  The song dealt with air raid sirens and a
lot of percussion sounds.  In another part of the school the sensor in an
elevator malfunctioned and the fire alarms went off.
The band director did not notice that the strobes and alarms were going off
around him and the audience seem to think that we were doing it for effect.
We brought up all the house and work lights, and I was loudly giving
instructions to the audience.  But he just kept going.  FInally on of the
crew walked out and got him to stop and notice.  He anonionally was upset
that a student would interrupt him, until he noticed the lights and horns.
Talk about being focused!!

Joseph Pietrie

  Auditorium Manager

  St. Charles North High School

  255 Red Gate Road, St. Charles, IL 60175



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Office, 331-228-6355

Cell, 630-918-1035

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On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 6:35 PM Keith Newman via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> I would consult with your AHJ but in my space, if an alarm sounds, fire
> doors trip, emergency strobes go on and house and work lights come up to
> full, unless a patron is blind it is pretty obvious that there is a
> situation. If that happened, I would instruct the outside sound crew to cut
> audio immediately and issue an evacuation order over the PA. A lot depends
> on how your fire control and lighting systems are set up which can be
> dictated by the age of your system.  I have no idea if our sound system is
> designed to automatically cut out or not. It is worth looking into. I will
> run some music in our house during our next drill and see what happens.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 1:31 PM Fritz, Barry via Stagecraft <
> stagecraft at theatrical.net> 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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