Re: Automatic resetting fire panel :(

[J. Sloud <jsloud2001@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:24:35 -0700, "James" <trishnjames@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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
>
>James.

You may want to have your contact at the vocational school ask his
insurance co and local AHJ how they feel about a guard at an unrelated
business randomly resetting legitimate alarm signals without
investigating.  Now that you know it's wrong, if you do nothing about
it, and something happens, you may be setting yourself up for some
liability.