Re: Automatic resetting fire panel :(

["Michael B. Baker" <mbbaker@xxxxxxxxx>]

NFPA 72-2002 6.8.2.7  Protected premises fire alarm control units shall be
capable of being reset or silenced only from the control unit at the
protected premises unless otherwise permitted by 6.8.2.8.
6.8.2.8  Remote resetting and silencing of a fire alarm control unit from
other than the protected premises shall be permitted with the approval of
the authority having jurisdiction.


"James" <trishnjames@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
>