Rarest fire alarms you have seen inside a building

Middle east and other countries in asia and europe have american style alarms manufactured for that country’s market.

Not rare at all. Just a modern rebrand that is still made today for ADT

product by Cooper Nugelec

Not necessarily. Neutronic and chubb do them too

Here is the rarest alarms I have ever seen in a building, specifically my high school. For more information, go here.


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These were certainly a sight





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ADT B5009 pulls and 7001’s in the same building. No photos because it was a governmental building.

I’ve seen a handful of rare alarms in the wild, particularly at MSU Mankato, though most of the original systems no-longer had the horns. I’ve made a post about this before.

I also made a post in Fire Alarms in Buildings 2.0 about a nursing home with 4050-80s and Faraday Type 129 horn plates.

Here are some devices I found longer ago.

Faraday/Simplex flush-mounted horns in a four-story apartment complex built in 1978. (c.2023)

There used to be Faraday 10123-1 pulls, but they were sadly replaced with BG-12s a couple years ago.

Honeywell chevrons and semi-flush horns in two 1960s quadplex apartments (c. 2018)

I’m not really sure what to call those kinds of apartments, but they’re basically split-level apartment buildings with four apartments each. I also saw a Couch FACP in one of the maintenance rooms, but I don’t know where that picture is, unfortunately…

Edwards 360 flush-mounted horns in the 1962 addition of a catholic school (c.2020)

Simplex bells and interesting break-glass boxes in Northbridge Mall, Albert Lea, MN, built 1987 (c. 2020)


Is that a hotel? You should get those things out of there since they’re disconnected.

It is a hotel, but it’s a few hours at least from where I live. I can’t remember where it even was