FIRE! FIRE!
@cintol (11261)
United States
August 16, 2018 9:34pm CST
Syke, just kidding!!!! This is what our smoke alarms keep saying to us in the middle of the night. It is so annoying and no one can figure it out.
Since we bought this house the smoke alarms have gone off. They always wait till about 2 in the morning to do it when we are all asleep. Its like they can see us because sometimes they wait until I go to bed and then go off.
We have 9 of them in here and we have replaced all the batteries, cleaned out all the dust and reset them every week and FOR WHAT?? They still go off and then laugh at us. They are hard wired into the house so we can't even disconnect them, UGH!!
Have any of you ever had problems like this??
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@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
17 Aug 18
You might have yourself a haunted house! Or worst you have someone that has spy cams up and does this to freak you out. Is this a rental house? If not call an electrician something is wrong somewhere, like they are on a timer.
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@cintol (11261)
• United States
17 Aug 18
No the house is only 3 yrs old, we are the second owners but the first said they didn't do this to them. They said they never had a problem with them.
@Juliaacv (48447)
• Canada
17 Aug 18
I wonder if they have expired? I didn't know that smoke and carbon monoxide detectors expire until my husband asked me to go out and buy new ones once.
I would try to call an electrician and get their educated guess on this.
Its kind of freaky and annoying.
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@FayeHazel (40248)
• United States
28 Aug 18
Oh that is a pity about the hard-wired aspect of that.
Oh dear I hope you get it figured out soon
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@cintol (11261)
• United States
28 Aug 18
@FayeHazel Yeah, they could tell I was frustrated and not at all happy about it and I think when I told them I was going to find the fuse and just shut them all down, they knew they better do something. lol Well I am still waiting for that next video so get to practicing missy lol.
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@FayeHazel (40248)
• United States
28 Aug 18
@cintol Oh good, I'm happy the company stood behind the product and you don't have to be up at like 2AM any more. Oh good memory, thanks for asking. I have been slacking a little with stave practice, but that was a good reminder :-)
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
2 Sep 18
in one house my son was buying and unfortunatly we just completely disconnected them. no way we could do that here with one person that tends to forget leaving things on the stove and falling asleep with a cig. 
but luckily they only go off if there is smoke. maybe shut yours off from power and just get new battery run ones.
but luckily they only go off if there is smoke. maybe shut yours off from power and just get new battery run ones.1 person likes this
@cintol (11261)
• United States
2 Sep 18
yes, I thought about doing that and just getting stick on ones but the company sent someone out here and they went ahead and replaced all of them for no charge. They think one of them was shorting out and causing the rest to go off because they are all connected. So far so good.
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@Shellyann36 (11385)
• United States
17 Aug 18
We lived in a rental once that had the entire system hooked up electronically to go to an alarm company. Once it went off and we could not get it to stop. It sounded like a 3 alarm fire bell going off at a fire station. I tried everything to get it to turn off. Nothing worked. I called the realtor and asked what we should do and they told me to cut the wires. It turns out that I did not have to, I just had to disconnect it from the power source. Thankfully, I found the power source before I cut the wires.
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@Shellyann36 (11385)
• United States
24 Aug 18
@cintol I know how annoying it is. They are really loud or as you say shrill. Ours had the shrill sound and a large blinking light that kept going off. I know it totally pissed our neighbors off. I am sure they could hear it next door.
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@cintol (11261)
• United States
17 Aug 18
These can be sent to the alarm company as well but I am glad we don't have the service right now because we would be called constantly about these things. They are loud aren't they, I can't stand the sound it is so shrill. I told my husband to check the fuse box and see if they are on a separate breaker that we can just shut off because I can't take it anymore. Glad you didn't cut the wires, that would of cost a fortune to have repaired.
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@cintol (11261)
• United States
24 Aug 18
@Shellyann36 lol, I don't know how people couldn't hear that outside, it is ear breaking when your one the inside. Ours has the light as well
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@moffittjc (118449)
• Gainesville, Florida
4 Sep 18
Maybe a ghost is setting them off!
Is it possible to call a local alarm company and have them come out and replace them with new ones? Even though they are hard-wired, an electrician or somebody from an alarm company should be able to change them out for you.
I would go crazy if my smoke alarms kept going off in the middle of the night!
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@moffittjc (118449)
• Gainesville, Florida
5 Sep 18
@cintol I'm glad to hear you got it taken care of. Sorry to hear about your son's passing 2 years ago.
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@cintol (11261)
• United States
4 Sep 18
I told my husband its probably my son who passed 2 yrs ago, it would be something he would do lol.
We finally had the company come out because I couldn't take it anymore and they did replace each and every one. They said that one must have had a short or something in it that was causing them to go off, so far so good.
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@just4him (306328)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
18 Aug 18
The first time the fire alarm sounded here, I jumped about two feet. It screamed Fire Fire too. Now, I have my broom close by so I can reach up and hit the silence button. It's located directly across from the stove on the ceiling. So, I need to remember to turn the stove fan on when I cook so it won't go off.
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@snowy22315 (169997)
• United States
29 Aug 18
I don't know why in the heck those things always wait until 2 AM to go off. It is soo annoying.
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@cintol (11261)
• United States
29 Aug 18
I know right, I am always up at night sometimes till 3 and they never go off till I go to bed. Ugh, they haven't gone off at all since they came and replaced all of them so fingers crossed
@cupkitties (7421)
• United States
20 Aug 18
Does it have a nasally female voice and is it accompanied by an shrill, ear drum busting noise? Ours goes off whenever my mom broils chicken. I always want to jump out of a window
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@cupkitties (7421)
• United States
20 Aug 18
@cintol Ah Ours yells out "FIRE FIRE, FIRE FIRE" and whenever we replace the batteries it always says "Warning. Carbon Monoxide!"
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@cintol (11261)
• United States
21 Aug 18
@cupkitties That would be more annoying than just the beeping, I have never heard one scream like that before.
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@GreatMartin (23676)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
29 Aug 18
Now you won't be able to get to sleep wondering if they will or won't go off!! 
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@cintol (11261)
• United States
30 Aug 18
Well they came and replaced all of them last week, so far none have gone off so we will keep our fingers crossed and pray they are all good now. One had to be shorting out or something, no one could explain it.
@proseprity68 (331)
• United States
21 Aug 18
IS this a new house or you bought it from the previous owners?
Did you do some investiagtion about this house of yours?
As Judy Evans said in her response... IT SEEMS VERY STRANGE.
I agree with her.
Specially with all those cleaning and replacing the batteries too.
I hope the entities that are doing this 2am with you and your family are just really kidding around.
I know it is really very annoying specially at that time when everybody is supposed to be sleeping soundly.
Have you researched anything about it, why it does that ?
Good Luck and it would be nice if you will have an update about this :-)
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@cintol (11261)
• United States
21 Aug 18
The house was built 3 yrs ago and we are the second occupants, I keep telling my husband its my son who passed away 2 yrs ago trying to freak me out. One day the TV in our room kept coming on but the screen was purple each time, it was so weird and so I told him to stop playing games coz he was freaking mom out, it has never happened again. The alarm people come tomorrow to see what they can do.
@cintol (11261)
• United States
21 Aug 18
@proseprity68 Yes, he is still here with me lol, thank you. I have had a talk with him, we will see if it worked lol
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@proseprity68 (331)
• United States
21 Aug 18
@cintol I am sorry to know about your son :-(
Our consolation is, he is still with you but not the way you he's freaking you out, specially at that time 2am.
~hugs~ to you Cindy
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