NOUN
- an alarm that is tripped off by fire or smoke
- a shout or bell to warn that fire has broken out
How To Use fire alarm In A Sentence
- Connecticut schools have been fitting yellow intruder alarms next to fire alarms in their corridors and dining halls. Times, Sunday Times
- He said the people seemed to panic more when the fire alarm went off.
- The fire alarm deploys a curtain covering the paintings, and then activates the sprinklers.
- FI system, IDD telephone, smoke sensitive , fire alarm and well - equipped toilet.
- Some joker keeps setting off the fire alarm.
- The architect, thought long and hard about the look of his upturned boats but evidently did not realise that the stoor created by construction work would trigger the fire alarms.
- And we both hurried off filled with relief; Tony because he'd got away with setting the fire alarm off, and me because Tony had saved me from what had seemed a certain caning.
- If a fire really breaks out, please sound the fire alarm.
- Fire exit doors to stairwells, for example, should unlock when a fire alarm is tripped.
- The fire alarm rang and everyone ran out of the building.