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In my area, the 2010s brought about a ton of changes with fire alarm signaling. At the very beginning of the decade, my school district replaced the aging fire alarm systems at 20+ schools with new addressable Siemens FireFinder-series systems and either Z-series or Exceder-series notification appli...

Not as bad as $250 for a single AS...
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Over the summer, my family was driving through southeast Wisconsin when there was a tornado warning. Needing to get off the highway and find shelter, we found an elementary school that was doubled as a tornado shelter. The 1960s-era elementary school looked like it had seen an HVAC upgrade or simila...

My school shares a system with the rest of the shopping complex it is located in. Panel: Notifier NFS-3030 Pulls: Notifier NBG-12LX Notifier MPS-950B (rebranded by Tyco/Grinnell) Signals: System Sensor P2R Mircom FHS-240R There is also a local system, set up for drills. Panel: Potter SFP-???? (not ...

In my personal opinion, we need more "blended" voice-evac/horn systems that actually take into account ambient noise levels. For example, in a school a history classroom wouldn't have nearly the same ambient noise level as a woodshop; just the same with an auditorium and a gymnasium. Voice-evacuatio...

WARNING: I got a little (a lot) carried away with the backstory for this one. Read it if you want, don't read it if you want. Smallsville Community School in Smallsville, Ohio is a medium-sized regional K-12 school serving just over 2,000 students. The school originally opened in 1921 as the 58,000...

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Fri Sep 27, 2019 9:27 am

It happened straightforwardly before our first pulverize and we entered soul in like 10 minutes earlier. there was nothing to genuinely train in that time.

What? I have zero clue what any of that is supposed to mean or how it pertains to safety drills...

Does anyone have an exact date on that picture? It looks like mid or late-80s to me. In any case, I've never seen a full Simplex 2120 multiplex system before; that's super cool!

I don't know that this counts since it's technically not my school, but another high school in my district just completed a new $105 million dollar campus that is unsurprisingly much nicer than my high school or any other school in my district. In any case, the building has massive Siemens voice-ev...

It's unusual, but I have come across a few elevators with fire alarms in them. I stayed at a hotel once where the elevator had a Fire-Lite smoke detector mounted above a Wheelock ET-1080 speaker. I've never seen sprinklers in an elevator before, though.

My high school was originally a modular high school, meaning that "classrooms" could be configured to different sizes for different needs via removable walls. Most classrooms could be doubled in size (as in, there was one divider that separated two rooms), but some could be tripled or even quadruple...

I don't know that this counts since it's technically not my school, but another high school in my district just completed a new $105 million dollar campus that is unsurprisingly much nicer than my high school or any other school in my district. In any case, the building has massive Siemens voice-eva...

In my opinion, it all has to do with occupancy. If we're talking an average-sized roadside BP, Shell, or Holiday-esque convenience store, I'd say generally a full fire alarm system would be overkill since these places wouldn't typically meet standard occupancy or space requirements to warrant a full...

A new Costco was just built near my house. Because the building is fully sprinklered, there isn't really a fire alarm system, but near the information desk there is a Fire-Lite BG-12L pull station directly below a white Fire-Lite ANN-80 annunciator which is directly below a System Sensor P2RL horn/s...

My great, great grandson has. It was a Simplex TrueAlert horn/strobe. I find it very interesting, searching through your past posts, that as a teenager you had a fear of fire alarms. Considering the fact that you're 100 years old, I'm very fascinated to find out what commercial fire alarm systems e...