The NFPA code requires emergency lights to work for 90 minutes so they definitely didn't meet code requirements

This has to be the MOST NIC adventure ever on this channel 😂
It wouldn’t be a proper holiday for you without city wide power outages and fire alarms all in one night!

6:37 fire alarms

welcome to the US.. where safety of the citizens is.... 27th on the list

Varies so much from state to state, even from city to city in the same state. Sometimes you get an AHJ who cares, is strict, but keeps things up to par.. Others not so much. In general, unfortunately, if you're in an area where the AHJ is more lenient, you can end up in a situation where a business with systems that aren't up to code don't even get fined, so nothing gets done about it. Systems are also grandfathered in, so older systems don't really get touched unless they need to. Wiring below 7 ft needs to be in pipe, but above 7 feet can be exposed, which is probably why you wonder about the unprotected wire. NFPA makes some interesting choices with the codes I don't understand, but oh well here we are.

Holy.. the amount of violations was wild

Welcome to the USA

I would definately be sending an email to the corporate owners of the hotel and show them what you observed. Glowsticks are not proper or legal emergency lighting. They need to know that local management is not doing their job. Anyway, enjoy your vacation! 🏝️

I’ve been to that mall before. Very cool to see the alarms sounding

This is very similar to something that happened on my college campus last year in May, almost uncanny how comparable the events are. The power was out in my building all night and fire alarms went off in a nearby building too.

That fire alarm message was a perfect example of worst craftmanship in the US. That message makes no sense outside of a hi-rise building. But the technician was too lazy to change it

@9:00 imagine if that was played on the fire alarm speakers lol

As someone who knows hazards like the back of my hand, It's concerning how many lights didnt work

Great video as always!! Hawaii is definitely beautiful!!

I live in south us, the fire alarm installs are not as crappy in this area and speaker strobes are always that quiet.

I'd be pretty pissed being on vacation and have that happen in my hotel for a day.  I wonder for the hotels with generators if the A/C in the rooms would be supported to run.

In the US, the biggest thing driving these decisions about maintenance and care for a building's safety systems (and just anything in general) are 1). cost; 2). greed (bc what if i need that extra $5 for something i feel is more important?); and 3). choice (bc i feel like it, i would rather use my money on something else, etc).

I just stayed at the hotel at 2:54 2 weeks ago. I miss Hawaii!

Everything sucks here in the USA when it comes to safety. I work at a large retail store that has a half-assed fire alarm system installed in it that i've never seen tested and has emergency lights that belong in a museum that i guarantee don't work. They even keep the emergency exit locked with a deadbolt that you have to have a key to open. Lol.

People don't wanna pay to have a job done right these days in the US. I seen another commenter say it and I agree - stuff only gets done when someone gets a government inspector involved in it.

Also I feel like if there ever was a building in fire your ass would die in it since you walk right into buildings with alarms going off in them 😂 - you work with these systems all day so you're probably used to it, but i mean another issue with fire alarm systems is no matter how much money you put into them it's useless unless the occupants actually care about them. They usually go ignored - seeing as 9/10 activations are false alarms. Either dumb kids pulling fire alarms or a technical/maintenance issue that causes false alarms.

Safety doesn't come first in the USA, thats for sure

Also, you have to remember that in BC, the BCPUC tells BCHydro, Fortis, et al; how it's going to be.
In the US; most states have deregulated their utilities, so the utilities answer only to their shareholders.