Same thing happened to me a few months ago, caused by a spider

Jan 29, 2015
12:02:50am

jhingman

A spider had crawled into one of them and tripped the censors, and since they're all networked through the house they all blared like mad. Found and killed the spider, no more problems.

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every freaking fire alarm in our house just went off for about 3-4 minutes!!!!

nashty

1/28/15 11:05pm

i've actually heard of this happening before. seriously. it's usually caused

riboflavin

1/28/15 11:07pm

You sure they didn't go off because of carbon monoxide?

kudzucoug

1/28/15 11:09pm

oh thanks...now i'm really gonna sleep well!

nashty

1/28/15 11:10pm

pretty sure you're joking, but just in case. CO is odorless, are they CO alarms?

BYUFBDAD

1/28/15 11:14pm

Carbon monoxide is actually odorless. No joke.

byuluvr

1/28/15 11:14pm

which is the ones that smell like eggs?!?!?

nashty

1/28/15 11:18pm

Farts aren't poisonous

Shimmy

1/28/15 11:20pm

Don't know. But seriously I would open the windows right now. Do not go to sleep

TrueAndBlue

1/28/15 11:20pm

That is sulfur dioxide.

MPCougar

1/28/15 11:22pm

natural gas, prior to it being burned.

BYUFBDAD

1/28/15 11:34pm

very well. you are about to take the longest nap of your life.

riboflavin

1/28/15 11:15pm

ours went through a phase where they did that for a while. never really

osbooks

1/28/15 11:09pm

that's a poltergeist. what city do you live in?

riboflavin

1/28/15 11:14pm

I'm sure you know this, but most newer homes (as in last twenty years) have

RebelScum

1/28/15 11:13pm

Try taking a can of the Dust-off and spray them out.

bluecheese

1/28/15 11:43pm

I've had it happen to ours as well. Not sure what to do except replace all

BW84

1/28/15 11:45pm

Same thing happened to me a few months ago, caused by a spider

jhingman

1/29/15 12:02am

I'm guessing it was especially satisfying killling that particular spider

dilbert

1/29/15 6:43am

Same exact thing for us.

whirl

2/5/15 3:37pm

Your house is haunted. Time to look for a new one

thecelloguy

1/29/15 6:55am

dust caused ours in a house the same age. had to dust one of the detectors and

goofball

1/29/15 7:34am

RE: every freaking fire alarm in our house just went off for about 3-4

bushy7

1/29/15 7:50am

It's not uncommon for alarms to start failing around 10 years. We replaced

patentattycoug

1/29/15 8:02am

Same.

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