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Morgue Alarm

Morgue Alarm

The clearly-labeled morgue alarm sat silent in the hallway. I have never see one before; I assume that an audible alarm sounds if the temperature in the cooler gets too warm...
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Good guess Motts,looks like the same kind of battery used in electric fences,don't see them too often anymore.
Ferdy
Tue 05-04-2010
Zombies did away with the alarm first.
A D Nilsen
Tue 05-04-2010
Thats something ive never seen either! Looks like it has a button on it like a doorbell. Wonder what that was for? Maybe for a quick test or push this if someone presumed dead suddenly moves..... Oh My!
LucieLou
Tue 05-04-2010
Might be in case of body snatchers!
Canada
Tue 05-04-2010
Probably in case someone was trying to escape in the off hours. Another great gallery, thank you!!
eldokid@aol.com
Tue 05-04-2010
A D, I was thinking zombies, too. Morgue alarm = Zombie alert. Heheh... but it makes sense you'd want some sort of mechanism to notify workers if the temperature went to high in the cooler. Last thing you want on a Monday morning in the morgue is to come in and find out someone left the door to the cadaver cooler ajar on Friday afternoon...
Rekrats
Tue 05-04-2010
I meant to say... "went TOO high in the cooler."
Rekrats
Tue 05-04-2010
Rekrats, you would be a great writer of the next" Death- in- the- morgue return- to- the- zombie- movie!"
Dawn Michelle
Tue 05-04-2010
You never fail to find something new and interesting in each place you go Motts! Was so glad to see a new gallery tonight!
TootUncommon
Tue 05-04-2010
never seen that before
Merc24
Wed 05-05-2010
You know you got to have your morgue alarmed - in case any deceased patients decide to become zombies and walk out on you!
Lixi
Wed 05-05-2010
Morgues are usually attached to the lab. There are many times during the day that the staff is not in the morgue. So if a funeral home comes to pick up a body they have to get the attention of the staff. Thus the morgue alarm. Kind of a crazy name for it since it is just a doorbell..............
Claudia
Thu 05-06-2010
we have a cooler high temp alarm for our several cooler areas here at work. similar set-up
denise
Thu 05-06-2010
It is similar to an alarm system with a battery backup. In case of power failure or high temperature, it would (most likely) page a couple of people about the outage via phone line (Note the bar of screws indicating data lines) so action can be taken. (i.e. Starting a backup generator) If it did not trigger that as well. I don't think it was for warning of Necromancers or rogue morticians. :-D
Jack_
Sat 05-08-2010
must be afraid that people might leave
Joe
Sun 05-09-2010
Im pretty sure that it's in case the zombies escape.
ginberry
Tue 05-11-2010
Zombies! Yes. I do what I can to alert people to the dangers of zombies in these buildings. It could be said the alarm goes off when zombies invade seeking brains to eat. But that room stores cadavers, so I'll speculate that the alarm warned of new zombies becoming active that are ready for zombie control collars.
autoguy
Wed 05-12-2010
LOL autoguy! Those darn zombies....
Kathy W.
Fri 05-14-2010
I wish I had a morgue alarm for myself. Fantastic shot.
fall coyote
Sun 07-11-2010
why would there be an alarm in a morgue??
Nurse Hatchet
Tue 06-07-2011
Broken refrigerator = not good.
Motts
Wed 06-08-2011
broken refrigerator = rotting corpses
rotting corpses = nastiness D:
emzroz
Sun 01-01-2012

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