Palisades Mall Mystery Voice Message?

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Does anyone know this voice evac message from the Palisades Mall in West Nyack, NY? It sounds like this: “Attention! Attention! For your safety, please proceed to the nearest emergency exit.” The mall has Honeywell XLS-278 or the EST rebrand, the SIGA-278 pull stations, Integrity remote speakers, Integrity speaker/strobes EST 202-5A-T remote strobes, EST 405-7A-T remote strobes, and SIGA-PS detectors. Some comments in one video state it is an EST ESA-2000 (the mall was built in 1998), while I believe it is a Honeywell XLS-1000 or EST3 (the Edwards version), as the booster panels located in the bathroom hallways on the 4th floor are EST booster panels.

Here is the video link:

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I have never heard of that message.

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Yeah I don’t know that one either: that’s the only location I’ve known to have that message from the videos I’ve found.

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It may be custom. I don’t know how to explain it, but it doesn’t sound like a stock message

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That mystery has been solved (the Palisades Mall uses a custom voice message), but what panel is in use here? I am leaning towards EST3 due to the mall’s size, as the ESA-2000 supports less devices, but both systems are addressable and the SIGA pulls/detectors can be used on the ESA-2000 and EST3.

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Oh yeah! I forgot about that!

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The slow whoop sounds like EST2 slow whoop (which may have been used on early EST3 panels) as compared to the ESA-2000’s slow whoop. Also, the EST3 I know has recording functionality (the ESA-2000 may not have recording functionality).

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Could it be an IRC-3?

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Maybe it could be an IRC-3! The only way I can confirm is by looking at the photos of the entryway to the mall on Google Maps.

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Honeywell never rebranded the IRC-3… they only rebranded the EST2 and EST3.

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It’s probably not a Honeywell

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I thought they did, maybe not.

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Could be a Honeywell. not

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The only way to know is to look at the pull stations: if they are Honeywell-branded, then the panel is an XLS-1000. If the pulls are EST SIGA-278s, then the panel is an EST3 or IRC-3 (judging based on the annunciator.)

Also, based on the size, we can rule out the EST2 and ESA-2000, as those panels are made more for medium-sized installations, such as a supermarket, school, or department store.