Fire alarm test (monthly test of Fire / Smoke Detectors)

Hope at Sea (Prasobh Sugadhan)
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Apr 23, 2026
This is a video detailing the testing of a smoke detector (fire alarm sensor), and a short understanding of how to read your Fire and safety plan for Fire Detection systems.
I hope you will find this video useful for your future career paths ❤️
Good afternoon, so today we will test the fire alarm of a ship. So this is our fire alarm panel
Now I'll show you the fire
Alarm dictator that is smoke dictator
This is basically the smoke dictator
You can see the IMO symbol for smoke dictator and you can see when the smoke detector is operational
It will start showing you blinking lights
You can see the blinking lights that means it is operational
Now I'll show you the fire alarm bell. This is the fire alarm bell of the ship
You can see this it is placed all over the ship
So on your fire and safety plan it will show you
Where the push buttons are where the fire plan is and where the fire bell alarms are you can see fire bell alarm
Push button fire plan and which all places are having which all alarms
Now the types of
Dictators you can see here
Smoke dictator he detector and the places where it is going to be present on the ship
Now we will test the fire alarm for the onboard testing of smoke dictator. This is the type of spray that we use
So you have to spray this onto your smoke dictator
So let us try it out
I'll just show you how it looks like
This is a spray
So we'll
Check it. We are sprayed
So the blinking light has to turn into a constant light
See the light has turned into constant. Now the fire alarm will be coming
Now we will be resetting our fire alarm
You can see and hear the fire alarm bell working
So the alarm has been resetted I hope you understood how to test a fire alarm on board
