St. Joseph High School, Trumbull, CT
Panel: Silent Knight IFP-series panel + a SK VIP voice evac amplifier
Pulls:
N/As (sorted by brand:)
System Sensor/Honeywell:
Eaton/Wheelock:
Edwards/EST:
Smokes:
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
Notification Appliances: Simplex TrueAlert horn strobes. Here’s on in a small bathroom:
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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.
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
Buzz light year space rangers spin. Disneyland park, CA.
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.
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.
This past weekend, I went to the Furpocalypse convention in Stamford, Connecticut. convention at Stamford, Connecticut. The Armon Hotel it was at, built in 1984 (with a few partial renovations since), had a rather interesting EST fire alarm system (most likely an EST-3, given the annunciator at the reservation counter).
The majority of the hotel has EST Genesis horn/strobes, with many of them on the trim plates, but one panel room on the second floor had Wheelock AS horn/strobes, the video gaming rooms on that same floor had Wheelock RSS remote strobes, another area had a System Sensor SpectrAlert Advance horn/strobe, and the main lobby and ballrooms and related panel rooms had EST Genesis speaker/strobes! There were also a couple Federal Signal Vibratone 450D horn/strobes, clearly the original alarms from when the hotel was built, and most likely disconnected.
The pulls are Edwards 270-SPOs with simple STI covers over them, with many of the pulls being the 1980s version (suggesting they were the original pulls installed with the Vibratones) and some newer models with GE and EST logos, along with SIGA-PS smoke detectors (many of them were on large trim plates, clearly covering up where older smoke detectors were, but some were on the smaller base and had the “GE EST” logo). It’s possible the old system was a rare instance of Edwards using Federal Signal Vibratone horn/strobes, or it could’ve been another company that also used Edwards’s 270-SPOs (and there were a few in the 1980s that used them as their metal pull station option).
The parking garage had SpectrAlert Advance horn/strobes, and Edwards 278B-1110 pulls and at least one 270-SPO pull with Stopper II covers.
Wilton YMCA, Wilton, CT:
Panel: Gamewell-FCI S3 (annunciator is in front foyer)
Pulls: Fire-Lite BG-12s
Alarms: SpectrAlert Advance Speaker/Strobes and at least two SPSRL speaker strobes
Detectors: 2151s
