What's the point of fire alarms?

I'm not sure, but supposedly it is tied to a sprinkler system that's supposed to go off when the alarm rings, though I've never once seen that happening at all in my short time playing TS4. Another thing I'm unsure if it's tied to is that it is to be able to reimburse your burned objects for insurance money (which is always never enough to compensate it) but I'm not sure if that's specifically tied to having an alarm or not.

I believe you also need to have the "fire suppression system" placed in the room for the sprinklers to go off. Now, I'm not sure if the alarm and sprinkler system work together or not, but I have seen it in action. It just poofs the fire right out.

I don't know, but I really feel your pain! This exact thing happened to me the other day - I'd been playing through the generations to get to this specific sim, moved him out to start his YA life in his new place, and within 1 sim day the cooker caught on fire and he burned to death ignoring all pleas from me to extinguish himself, whilst listening to the sound of the fire alarm! Luckily I'd just saved it before he moved, so I could just exit and start again! I've now stopped having fire alarms as there is no point, and I've downloaded MC Command so I can auto save regularly...

I had the sprinkler system installed in a game once not sure if if I had the fire alarm but the the sprinklers went off and put the fire right out

To ensure your sim will extinguish themselves, cancel Fire! In their queue. Then the extinguish self command will drop right down.

"Melmack;c-16717588" wrote:
I believe you also need to have the "fire suppression system" placed in the room for the sprinklers to go off. Now, I'm not sure if the alarm and sprinkler system work together or not, but I have seen it in action. It just poofs the fire right out.

You don't need to have the supression item in the room specifically, it can go anywhere and it will still work; I often place it outside and it still puts fires out.

I always put fire alarms in rooms with cookers and fireplaces etc. out of habit since TS1, so don't know if supression system will still work without them. :smile:

"TheStarHermit;c-16717697" wrote:


You don't need to have the supression item in the room specifically, it can go anywhere and it will still work; I often place it outside and it still puts fires out.

Well, thank you for that info. Good to know I don't need to have that panel uglying up my kitchens anymore. :smiley:

"TheStarHermit;c-16717697" wrote:

I always put fire alarms in rooms with cookers and fireplaces etc. out of habit since TS1, so don't know if supression system will still work without them. :smile:

No. the supresion system need alarms at each flamable room, so it activate after alarm sound

"Pamtastic72;c-16717690" wrote:
To ensure your sim will extinguish themselves, cancel Fire! In their queue. Then the extinguish self command will drop right down.

Well, I did that and didn't work. She preferred screaming in the fire.
I put the supression item in the house, so I guess it's all good... assuming it works, that is.

Weirdly, I just built a house and didn't put a fire alarm or sprinkler system panel thing anywhere in the build. A neighbour came round and lit the fireplace (in the middle of summer, grr!) and the living room caught on fire. A random sprinkler appeared above the neighbour that caught on fire and put the fire out!?!? I had 2 toddlers in the house so I don't know if its an inbuilt game thing to protect children, or whether its just a glitch? It all just feels a bit random!