This is one thing I hated about high school: that campus just HAD to be the home of the loudest fire alarms in the entire city! They made a long, continuous and LOUD buzzing noise (the school was built in 1969, so that is what they had.) It didn't help that the main control panel for the alarm system was a piece of junk prone to malfunctions and problems, and that some students would pull the fire alarm as a classic prank (they've been installing special "stopper" covers on the pull stations to prevent this from happening) and the alarm horns were at a dangerously high volume (I think around 100 decibels - that's enough to do damage to your ears!) I even seem to recall one teacher nearly had a heart attack over their fire alarm back in the late 1990s!

I seriously hope that school gets a new fire alarm system very soon, so no further generations have to suffer. Most new fire alarms are loud, but nowhere as loud as this one...