Daval’s Used Furniture & Antiques (Rutland Charter Township)
<This store still has a working, vintage First Alert SA88 wall-mounted above a door. There is no centralized alarm system.
Beech Elementary School (Redford Township) - The current incarnation of this school is located in the former Pearson Junior High building. Per unofficial Facebook pages, this school has had a total of three systems. This post covers the gym, a portion of one hallway, and portions of the exterior.
Annunciators/panels
<First system: Unknown, presumably a National Time (Natsco) type 2000-series
<Second system: Unknown, presumably EST
<Current system: Unknown
Detectors
<None noticed across all systems
Pull stations
<First system: Unknown, presumably Natsco type 620Ms or 341s
<Second system: EST 270-SPO types
<Current system: Fire-Lite NBG-12LX models behind STI Stopper II covers
Notification appliances
<First system: Based on the square metal plates covering the old devices, they were either Natsco type 311F or 411F horns. Rectangular plates plus wall scars indicate there were P806 bells used for class change, and several P808/P810 bells–some without their cast-iron guards–survive outside, albeit disconnected.
<Second system: EST EGCF-HDMVH horn/strobes on the ceilings and walls throughout the building
<Current system: Red Wheelock Exceder wall-mount LED speaker/strobes with white Exceder ceiling-mount LED speaker/strobes throughout the building
Notably, there is also a Wheelock ET70WP series speaker/strobe outside, near a mechanical room.
St. Joseph High School, Trumbull, CT
Panel: Silent Knight IFP-series panel + a SK VIP voice evac amplifier
Pulls:
- Silent Knight rebranded BG-12s
- Edwards 270-SPOs (Local Alarm)
N/As (sorted by brand:)
System Sensor/Honeywell:
- SpectrAlert Advance Horn/Strobes and Speaker/Strobes
- L-Series Horn/Strobes
Eaton/Wheelock:
- Wheelock 7002 with VERTICAL STROBE!!
- Wheelock 7002
- Wheelock 7002T
Edwards/EST:
- EST 792 Pre-Integrity
- EST Integrity
- Edwards 692 as a bathroom alarm
Smokes:
- System Sensor 2151
Greenwich YMCA, Greenwich, CT: (I was here for a swim meet)
Panel: EST3 or an EST3X
Pulls: SIGA-278s (older EST logo)
N/As: Genesis speaker strobes
Detectors: SIGAs
Clove Park Technical College: Aviation Center
Panel: Simplex 4020 maintained by Siemens
Pull stations: Addressable T-bars by Simplex
Notification Appliances: Simplex TrueAlert horn strobes. Here’s on in a small bathroom:
Detectors: Simplex TrueAlarm
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Redford Aldersgate United Methodist Church (Redford Township) - The main part of this church was built in 1958 per a building cornerstone, and has seen some expansions since then, the most recent being in the early 2000s per topo maps. The building does not have a centralized fire alarm system, but there are some unique components to it worth mentioning:
<There is a religious school in this building, and it uses National Time P806 bells (circa 1958) for class change! There’s at least one or two on each floor. This may be the first time I’ve ever seen a standalone Natsco bell system without any kind of centralized alarm system.
<The church does have several smoke detectors scattered throughout the building; they appear to be newer Kidde ionization models with a push-button in the middle. Additionally, the church has an elevator that uses Gentex photoelectric smoke detectors above the entryways.
<There is one unit–which appears to be an Amseco model with a horizontal Select-A-Strobe attachment–located above the boiler room door.
<Lastly, there is an Ansul kitchen system with a Wheelock MT4 horn/strobe used as the notification appliance.
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St Patrick’s Catholic Church Built in 2004 In Oak Grove MN Alarms and Smoke Detector and a Annunciator
Notification Devices Wheelock AS-24-MCW and Wheelock RSS-24-MCW and Notifier NBG12LX and outside of the church Wheelock 34T and No Fire Alarms in the Bathrooms and a Wheelock RSS-24MCW in the Choir room
Boston Logan International Airport - Terminal E - Boston, MA
Most of the Simplex system is still in place as always, including the older stuff in the bridge to the central parking garage.
Recently, a new expansion of this terminal opened. It has 4099-9006’s and, surprisingly enough, regular TrueAlert speaker/strobes. (I would have expected TrueAlert ES speaker/strobes.)
This is a system in a visitor’s center at a historical village in a state forest.
Original System
Panel: Siemens/Cerberus Pyrotronics Addressable Panel (Likely a small MXL)
Pulls: MSI-10Bs
Detectors: FP-11s and FPT-11s
Signals: UMMT-MCSes
New System
Panel: Fire-Lite ES-50X (ANN-80 Annunciator)
Pulls: BG-12LXes
Detectors: SD365s and H365s
Signals: P2RLs and SRLs
Such a dreadful shame that a Siemens system got replaced with Fire-Lite
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Old simplex alarms original to the building.
Anyone know what model? Are they voice evac? There are newer alarms that replace the old ones.
Those are Simplex 2902-9711/2902-9713 remote speakers, originally made by AtlasIED (formerly Atlas Sound/Atlas Soundolier) as the VTF-15-series (you can’t tell which brand they are since they’ve been painted over. I’m honestly surprised they don’t have speaker/strobes in those areas though: it seems like they would need them).
If there’s no newer signals in that area the old Atlas speakers are probably still connected.
They did put in new speaker strobes. I guess instead of just removing the old, they just stuck new ones up.
Oh, yeah: one advantage of doing so is that the existing speakers & the new speaker/strobes can work together to help make sure the tones & messages the system broadcasts are always audible no matter what.
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When I was there, I saw a few E70s in that building so I have no clue if those older speakers are used for the fire alarm system or not.
Yeah, I’d assume the newer NA’s are used
Farmington First United Methodist Church (Farmington) - The church’s official webpage shows the current building opened in 1922 with an educational wing added in 1958 and another addition in 2002, which is most likely when the current system was installed. This post covers the Wesley Hall of the 1922 building, located in the basement.
Annunciators/panel:
<Unknown, presumably a Radionics D1225R annunciator or an equivalent model, possibly with a D7022 panel
Detectors:
<Unknown
Pull stations:
<Radionics D461/D7045 series t-bars (rebranded RSG models)
Notification appliances:
<System Sensor SpectrAlert (first-generation) horn/strobes and strobes
The Yacht Club also has the same devices. The guest room floors of the Beach Club have Gentex Speaker/Strobes.
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