And my great-grandson’s office has a SpectrAlert Advance speaker/strobe.
The walkway that goes to the Central Parking Garage was built before the rest of Terminal A.
It has 2099-9756’s and 4903 speaker/strobes. (there’s also an older annunciator)
A new Shake Shack was recently built in my area. It most likely has an NFS-320 with ceiling mounted Wheelock Exceeders. Smokes are FSP-951s (aka the new select series from system sensor) and pulls are NBG-12LXes. Outdoor alarms consist of both a wall and ceiling mount ASWP- one for each entrance. A SpectrAlert Advance is mounted in the back for sprinkler activation.
My Doctor’s office had recently moved buildings, and this one has more of a modern one. Having something of a MS-9200UDLS due to different buisinesses sharing said building, the system consists of SpectrAlert advances, with remote strobes in smaller rooms. Pulls are Fire Lite BG-12s without Honeywell branding.
OH AND I FORGOT TO ADD THIS…
SLYCE Coal Fired Pizza has a Fire-Lite MS 9050UD system. The layout consists of Wheelock ZNS horn/strobes. An RSS strobe is visible in the kitchen. Pulls are Fire-Lite BG-12s.
Another K-O the Kangaroo appearance outside of the ballpark! This time, it was at a children’s recreational day camp cookout/fun day, held at the Deer Hill School in Cohasset, MA. It’s an intermediate elementary school, housing grades 3 to 5, and was built in the early 1950s and underwent a renovation and expansion in 2003, which is when much of their current fire alarm system installed.
The main panel is located in one of the entrance vestibules in the 2003 addition, but strangely not the main entrance. It’s a Cerberus Pyrotronics MXL, probably from right before Siemens dropped the Cerberus Pyrotronics name. The main entrance vestibule (also part of the 2003 addition) has a CP RCC-1F annunciator.
The alarm signals are a mix of CP U-MMT horn/strobes and Siemens-branded Wheelock ZNS horn/strobes (the latter ones are obviously replacing U-MMTs that failed over time). The restrooms have CP remote strobes, like the U-MCS but with fixed candela ratings.
The initiating devices are more consistent; the pulls are CP-branded RSG dual-action T-bars, with the little knob on the bottom of the cover instead of a grip flap, and there are also CP FireSmart smoke detectors with the thermal heat sensor on the head.
With the mix of U-MMTS and ZNSs, it must sound pretty crazy in there during a fire drill!
The dillards in Eastridge Mall (I work there part time in the upstairs thats never used due to it being turned into a empty boxing are) has Spectralert Classic Horn/Strobes, System Sensor 2400 smoke and heat combos, and RSG T bars on the second level with some BG-12-Ls sprinkled in.
BREAKING NEWS
This system has been replaced.
Panel: EST3, located at the main entrance.
Pull stations: SIGA-278’s
Detectors: SIGA-PHD’s
Signals: Genesis LED (G1) horn/strobes
I recently visited a local high-rise office building that features an interesting combination of devices. This building originally had a 1980s Honeywell voice-evac system with bilingual FM950 pull stations and 8" Arnscott Electronics speakers. In the last 3 to 4 years, a new Notifier system was installed. The pull stations are now N-MPS-2As (Notifier-branded RSG T-bars with general alarm keyswitches and bilingual lettering), the smoke detectors are FSP-851As and, oddly enough, the signals are a mix of Siemens-branded Wheelock E50 (bilingual) and E60 (mix of English-only and bilingual) speaker/strobes.
I’m particularly surprised to see Wheelock signals in this building as, in my area, I’ve exclusively seen System Sensor signals being used on Notifier systems in the past 15 years. I find it even more odd that Siemens-branded devices are being used on a Notifier system.
The 3 local post offices have different systems. The one by my house has no system, just an old Ademco system with a Wave 2. The one in the shopping center (the one store in there cause salvation army moved out a week ago) has a mix of Wheelock 7002ts and 270-SPOs. The one in Mount Holly has Integritys and SPOs. And the mill behind my house has Wheelock 7001ts and BG-10s and some old circa 1907 bells by faraday for doorbells.
A new Costco was just built near my house. Because the building is fully sprinklered, there isn’t really a fire alarm system, but near the information desk there is a Fire-Lite BG-12L pull station directly below a white Fire-Lite ANN-80 annunciator which is directly below a System Sensor P2RL horn/strobe; the only notification appliance in the entire 160,000 square-foot building. Interestingly, Fire-Lite monitor modules and key switches can be found throughout the entire building (probably connected to the sprinkler system).
This morning I had jury duty at Brockton’s superior courthouse, which is a very old building built in 1897. So old, it has plain exit signs that aren’t illuminated! Last time I was in there around ten years ago, they had a Simplex fire alarm system from the early 70s with 4051+4050-80 horn/lights (early version with the recessed horn and blank red lens) and 4251 “Chevron” pulls. The panel was probably a Simplex 4208. Several of the alarm devices were surface-mounted on backboxes, but a few were flush-mounted onto the walls.
Some time earlier this decade, they underwent an “upgrade” of sorts. The old Simplex 4051+4050-80s were taken out and replaced with Gentex Commander 3 horn/strobes, mounted on what looked like Wheelock RP-W adapter plates, though some of the plates were painted to match the color of the wall (like a dull light blue). The Simplex “Chevron” pulls were left intact. But to my surprise, I saw NO smoke or heat detectors anywhere. I can understand if the Simplex system from the early 70s was installed with no detectors, but you’d think when upgrading to whatever the new panel is (I didn’t see anything panels or annunciators, but it’s probably a Notifier system or something) and replacing the alarm signals, they’d add actual smoke detectors if the building was lacking anything like that!
And that makes another Simplex system with 4050-80s removed in Brockton. I’m pretty sure within a few years, there will be none left (especially since my first elementary school and my college have already gotten rid of theirs!)
Carowinds has a mixed system. They have adaptahorns for the wave pool. There is a FS beacon connected to the AH. Most of the park has Fire Lite BG-12s and advances. The large food place in there has a voice evac system with mostly speaker only advances and some speaker/strobes.
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A new Costco was just built near my house. Because the building is fully sprinklered, there isn’t really a fire alarm system, but near the information desk there is a Fire-Lite BG-12L pull station directly below a white Fire-Lite ANN-80 annunciator which is directly below a System Sensor P2RL horn/strobe; the only notification appliance in the entire 160,000 square-foot building. Interestingly, Fire-Lite monitor modules and key switches can be found throughout the entire building (probably connected to the sprinkler system).
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That is very strange!
The elementary school I went to had Simplex 2901-9833s on some unknown light plates and T bars. Panel is some 400X type panel.
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Did the light plates at your elementary school look like this?
(c) U8oL0
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Yep. Thank you for the nostalgia of 4th grade. 
That is a Simplex 2903-9101 light or strobe plate (they could be either). They were the successor to the Simplex 4050-80 light plate and the predecessor to the Simplex 4903-9101 light or strobe plate (they could be either).
I have seen them with 9838s (at the Emerald Square mall in North Attleboro), 9806s (at my grandparents former retirement home in Island Pond) and 9833s (at the Ramada Inn in Raleigh)
Last weekend, I visited Ypsilanti as part of a fire truck muster going on in a park. There were several places I visited Downtown also, with two of them having really unique alarms inside. Both locations are viewable in Google 360 imagery, but I was not the one taking pictures (I stopped that years ago).
Materials Unlimited
Annunciators/panel: Unknown
Detectors:
One Ademco 623-series photoelectric detector on the first floor
One EST 280-series photoelectric detector in the basement, likely replacing a broken Ademco detector
One Vulcan AutoSonic-series on the first floor, wall-mount, near an office corridor (not viewable in Google)
Pull stations: Unknown, none noticed
Notification appliances:
One Edwards 340 Adaptabel (with the shield logo) on the first floor (not viewable in Google)
One Wheelock MB-G6-24-R bell in a stairwell corridor between the second floor, first floor, and basement
Michigan Firehouse Museum - With the exception of the static displays, all of the devices are from circa 2002, when the museum expansion opened.
Annunciators/panel: Unknown
Detectors:
Gentex 8000 or 9000-series photoelectric detectors above elevator doors
Older System Sensor 2151-series photoelectric detectors throughout the building
Pull stations and notification appliances:
In addition to various firefighting memorabilia, the museum features several static fire alarm displays throughout. These include:
Gamewell street pull boxes from varying years
One 12-15" Gamewell gong, presumably used as part of a telegraph alerting system
A Gamewell telegraph fire alarm system
A Gamewell diaphone
A 6" Reiter(?) brass trip bell with an attached pull string
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The EST3 at my high school, installed in 2016 replacing an AM-2020 and NFS-640.
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Ehh, they should’ve stuck with Notifier and gone with an NFS2-3030…
But speaking of EST, today I did a K-O the Kangaroo appearance for a veterans’ expo/family fun day at the V.A. Hospital here in Brockton. It’s a campus-style hospital with most of the buildings built between the 1940s and 1960s. Prior to early this decade, many of the buildings had Honeywell fire alarm systems from the 70s or 80s with Wheelock 6" bells (probably MB-G6-24-Rs) and Space Age V33 remote lights, along with Honeywell S464A pull stations and either old Pyrotector or System Sensor smoke detectors, IIRC. Another building had a Honeywell system like that, but with pre-ADA remote Wheelock strobes instead of Space Age V33s. There was also a Simplex 4100 system from the 1990s in one building with red 6" Simplex bells (couldn’t tell if they were vibrating or single-stroke) on Space Age AV32 strobe plates! Pulls were 2099 single-action addressable T-bars, IIRC, and the smoke detectors were older-style TrueAlarms on the 2-wire bases, along with a couple of newer replacement TrueAlarm detectors.
Earlier this decade, they replaced all the old fire alarm systems with EST-3 voice-evac systems, going with red Genesis speaker/strobes, SIGA-278 dual-action pulls with Stopper II covers, and either SIGA-PS or SIGA2-PS smoke detectors, depending on the system. In the wellness/gymnasium building part of the expo was held in, the Genesis speaker/strobes in the gymnasium had protective wire cages over them. The mens’ locker room I changed in and out of costume in had what looked like a few EST Genesis remote strobes. One of them might have been an actual horn/strobe, but I’m not sure. (I just know I could see through the grille on one of them and there was nothing behind the grille.)
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