So my city, a small community has everything botch standard and the same. New community Buildings, Schools, and any city owned property will have a system of Gentex Commander 3s with National Time metal “T” Bars and Gamewell smoke detectors. The panel and annunciator is also National Time branded as well with the clocks around the buildings if there is the desire for them. So anyways, My elementary school, built in 2003 has the system of said Gentex Commander 3s and National Time Pull Stations and Gamewell Smoke Detectors and National Time Panel. That’s where my fascination grew with Fire Alarms. In Middle School, Built in 1958 and at the time of this post is being demolished, had a system of EST Genesis and Edwards 270SPOs but very little amounts of smoke detectors. The smoke detectors are EST ones and in some places had some really old looking ones. I could not tell what they were but they were really old looking ones like from 70s or 80s. It looked as if it were from that age. There was also an EST Integrity in the outdoor courtyard. Its the only Integrity in the whole building. I’ve never heard it, seen it go off and the colour has faded and the strobe has fogged brown. And obviously, this system replaced an old one beforehand. The School used to have Bells. Not sure about the pull stations as the 270SPOs all had the newer Edwards logo on them. Some of the Bells still remain in the building and on the outside in cages. But they don’t work. As they were building the new school. I did see part of the new system. They had the Metal National Time “T” Bars and surprisingly, One of those Gentex Speaker Strobes implying that they might have Voice Evac? Going into High School, Things aren’t as interesting. Built in 1999, It has a system of Gentex Commander 3s and National Time Metal “T” Bars. But they do have Gentex Commander 4s. There’s one there missing a cover and I see it every time I’m there which is soon to be everyday sometime? I do wanna try if I can snatch some goodies from the old Middle School as they are still keeping part of it and it is not fully gone…Yet. Its always a school that is 50+ years old that has to go. The city let that old building rot away and never did repairs to it. They did not even do asbestos removal when the building was in service all these years. The staff and the people in there were also shady and mean. But they did once let me press the button for the drill once.
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