Bryce Canyon Visitor Center - Bryce Canyon National Park
I came here not even expecting any fire alarm system, as many places in this area of Utah do not have systems. when I walked in, i saw a NOTIFIER AFP-100 FACP (pictured below). after some more investigation, i found a PDI NOTIFIER NBG12-LX, branded with “NOTIFIER by Honeywell” (pictured below). The detectors were FSP-751’s (pictured below) and the N/A’s were System Sensor SpectrAlert Classic (pictured below).
Bismarck Hotel- Bismarck, ND
(In the 60’s, this may have been an extremely large and luxurious “resort”, but it is now extremely run down and the system reflects that.)
Panel- Most likely a Simplex 4002 but it may have been upgraded without any of the devices being changed
Notification Appliances- Simplex 2901-9838 horns on 4903-9101 strobe plates
Pull stations- Simplex 4251-20’s
Smoke Detectors- mostly Simplex 2908-9201 smoke detector heads on 2098-9211 bases but there are also some replacement conventional TrueAlarms
Heat Detectors- I saw some Edwards heat detectors in the bathrooms. (This is not a sprinklered building)
Issues- This place has so many that I had to make a list.
This system has some extreme notification appliance coverage issues. Many of the rooms have no signals (including the huge indoor waterpark). The rooms that do have signals have very few for their size.
Many of the signals look to be in poor condition or are blocked. For example, I saw a projector screen in front of one of the signals in an event hall.
One of the heat detectors in the bathroom was hanging from the wires.
(Not really fire alarm related but still life safety related.) Almost all of the exit signs in the building were either very damaged, did not work, were completely wrong, or were just completely missing from the back box.
There is almost no emergency lighting in the building. The stuff that is there looks extremely damaged and old. Im guessing they work just about as well as the exit signs.
There are very few exits.
The lighting is very poor. There are quite a few windows, but I’m guessing that it would probably be very dark during the night.
This is a HUGE building with hundreds of rooms. The building is not sprinklered and has a very lacking fire protection system overall.
This whole building definitely just needs a complete overhaul. Not only are the life safety systems very lacking, but the building is just very behind on maintenance overall.
Caesar’s Palace - Las Vegas, NV Sorry for no pictures
Recently I visited Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, for dinner. while entering, I saw a Simplex 4904-9138 white strobe. more devices were TrueAlert horn strobes, TrueAlert speaker strobes, TrueAlert strobes, 4903 speaker strobes, and LifeAlarm speakers. there were no pulls at entrances or exits, but I did find some scattered around the forum shops. the pulls were Simplex 4099-9003 dual action pulls, and the smokes were addressable TrueAlarm detectors.
Today, me and my family went to the Chateau restaurant in Stoughton, MA for Easter Sunday dinner. They have a Fire-Lite MS-5UD-3 system that still has alarm signals from when the restaurant was built in the early 1980s! The alarms are largely older Wheelock 7002(T) horn/strobes with the open grille, but the room we ate in had a Federal Signal Vibratone 450D horn/strobe, mounted on the ceiling (despite the strobe being the wall-mount version)!
There was a Simplex 2099-9754 pull station in the main entrance vestibule, obviously replacing an older pull of some kind in the 1990s (it had the Simplex logo with the large hourglass “S” icon); obviously at one time Simplex serviced the restaurant’s system. I didn’t see any smoke or heat detectors, but there were fire sprinklers everywhere, so it didn’t matter much.
Yeah, I’ve been seeing quite a bit of Autocall now as well, especially since NSG Life Safety is just one town over from where I live! Even my therapist’s office got an Autocall-branded 4007ES panel installed a few months ago to replace their Silent Knight IFP-100 (no TrueAlerts; they still have the Wheelock MT-24-LSMs and an NS and a few Exceders from the previous systems).
I did see a few newer school buildings in the greater Boston area go with Autocall-branded 4100ES mass notification systems that do use TrueAlertES speaker/strobes for fire and remote amber strobes for non-fire emergencies.
With Autocall, I’m pretty sure why it’s getting popular is because you’re basically getting Simplex products for a lower price compared to directly from JC/Simplex.
That looks like a Spectronics rebranded 1st generation 7002t without the strobe.
I’ve always wondered why budget motels (especially Wyndham’s economy brands) only have audible NAs outside the rooms in the halls and no devices or detectors inside the rooms.
STI stopper push button for suppression abort and EST SIGA-278-REL addressable suppression release pull station. This was for some sort of mechanical rooms in the parking garage.
EST integrity ceiling speaker strobes. These were the main source of signalling in the upper floors. Some places had these on the wall with ceiling strobe.
KAC ema sounder. These were used in the underground parts of the mall.
KAC ema sounder in the parking garages. These were the signalling for the parking garage. most of these where next to the CO alarm sign.
EST SIGA-PS, System Sensor led indicator and EST integrity speaker. This was a little newer install as the LED indicator isn’t EST. It is an older indicator though as the LED is red not clear.
Either a SIGA2-PS or a SIGA-PD. can’t tell as the cover was on at the time of this picture. this was in a shop where the space was renovated.
Siemens conventional sounder and yellow conventional call point for fire door/curtain activation. these doors are now redundant as the area which they were protecting were sealed off but the panel controlling the doors was still active.
