Re: Automatic resetting fire panel :(

[G. Morgan <alarmprosnail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Subject: Automatic resetting fire panel :(
Newsgroup: alt.security.alarms
=> James <=  wrote:

>Today i was installing a communicator on a notifier fire panel.  This panel
>is in one of many buildings that a manufacturing company had owned.  The
>building I was working in is going to be a "Tech School" vocational college.
>Once I was done installing the communicator I ran a test on the fire alarm
>panel to check the reporting.  I pulled a pull statoin and the fire alarm
>went into alarm, a few seconds later it silenced and reset "by itself". I
>tried running several more tests all with the same results.  After about an
>hour of locating devices and tracing wires I figured out the panel has a
>remote annunciator in another building about 7 buildings away.  This
>building was still in posession of the manufacturing firm and they had "24
>hour security".  The security personell were silencing and resetting the
>fire alarm withought verrifying what was going on.  I would have thought
>they would have dispatched the fire department and sent a runner to check
>the building before they silence the horns, let alone reset everything


I was working at Baylor U. on a new Gamewell system that had fiber to the
schools police dept.

We set off a duct-dectector by mistake and before we could get to the panel the
system was silenced. BAD DEAL IMO,  we had not had the system on test.


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-Graham

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