Automatic resetting fire panel :(

["James" <trishnjames@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.