Bismarck Event Center
Bismarck, ND
Consists of two buildings connected by a hallway in the middle. I don’t know if the systems are tied together but I’m assuming they are. I heard the older Simplex system go off once when I was here for a show.
Main Building: 80s-90s
Panel: Simplex 4002 or 4005 (possibly with max amount of zones)
Notification Appliances: red 4903 mechanical horn strobes in the slightly newer part and 4903-9101 strobe plates with wheelock EH series electronic horns. All on continuous.
Pull stations: normal single action conventional T-bars in the slightly newer section and break glass T-bars in the slightly older section
Detectors: the only one I could spot was a conventional TrueAlarm in front of the elevator
New Building: Late 90s. Updated and size tripled in 2010s.
Panel: Siemens FireFinder XLS voice evac system
Notification appliances: rebranded wheelock E-50s and E-60s (including some odd ceiling mount lettered E-50s) Unknown message.
Detectors: Siemens OP921 addressable smoke detectors
Pull stations: Siemens HMS-D addressable pull stations
Although I find the old system very interesting, I think that they should have extended the Siemens system to both buildings when they installed it because the old Simplex system is very outdated and ineffective. I experienced this firsthand when it went off and nobody was moving. I actually had to tell my parents that it was going off because they didn’t realize. I think that a proper voice evac system would at least help this.