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In Canada, our rules are different. Pull stations have to be at every classified entrance and exit. This is how I like it. :-) NFPA 72 (2019) seems to address this too in 17.15.9.4: Manual fire alarm boxes shall be located within 5 feet (1.5 meters) of each exit doorway on each floor. But it seems ...

I'd guess so. Under some circumstances, pull stations can be omitted if the building is fully covered by an automatic sprinkler system. I personally have issues with having no means of activating the fire alarms manually, though. I think my state does allow for such cases to be used but it won't be ...

You are more than likely to find those devices in elevator shafts and control rooms - not in the elevators themselves.

I doubt it at this point in time. The Simplex 4030 is generally a standalone device so it would not be mounted on a light plate compared to the Simplex 4050. Also, you would seldom see this horn being used in most schools today. Many schools have updated their fire alarm systems so that it uses DC p...

So interesting story to mine. In our drama class, we had a guest alumni teach a choreography session. We were working on warm ups with some music when the fire alarm sounded - the standard Potter EVAX tone and message . A lot of people including me initially thought the alarm to be some wierd remix ...

Oh, I forgot that some rooms have equipment that tends to be pretty noisy under normal operation. That could be a warrant to put a horn in that particular room to meet the requirements of NFPA. For example, an electrical room that's about the size of a walk-in closet has lighting equipment that's ab...

I do recall there's something in the code that states that an alarm cannot exceed a certain dB (I believe it's 120). So yes, under certain conditions, an audible device cannot be installed in a small room you described. But keep in mind that room size only plays a partial role in whether or not a ro...

I've talked with a worker from NFPA if that counts. She was very friendly and even offered to have me visit the technical committee if I happen to come to Massachusetts. Otherwise, my parents are looking into getting me in contact with FPEs and insurance providers since a building I attend frequentl...

I think the more drills schools do the more distrust of the fire alarm teenagers have, they'll end up ignoring the signals. I've heard that the point: they'll treat every alarm as a drill, then only find out later it's an actual fire. Not sure if that's true though since that's pretty risky and (li...

Lockdown drills are a lot more disruptive and take longer than fire drills which is why they aren't done with a lot of frequency. Plus if there was one done once a month, eventually students would stop taking it seriously like how they do with fire drills and THAT would be a tragedy. Do you think t...

I've brought my fire alarms for a civics "mock trial" project where I was accused of tampering and stealing fire alarm equipment from my school.

We would use the drill button more often than pulling the alarm at school.

Our Lady of the Angels School is why. A fire in the 1950's killed almost 100 children because nobody knew what to do in case of a fire, end result of that incident was mandated fire drills in the fire codes. There are very few other codes like the fire codes... and lock down doesn't really apply to...

Is there a list of all possible Rauland Telecenter ICS tones you can choose? I'm talking about the ones where you can dial #3[tone]* and it plays that tone selected over the intercom. I recently got a hold of all the Rauland Telecenter ICS and ICS2 tones in .wav format. There are 9 Time Tones and I...

Is there a list of all possible Rauland Telecenter ICS tones you can choose? I'm talking about the ones where you can dial #3[tone]* and it plays that tone selected over the intercom.