Fire Alarm causes Fire

["Nick Markowitz" <nick-markowitz@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Had one of my customers buy a building other day and it has a old firelite
sensican panel in it which i was getting ready to take out becuse the board
had completely  burned up. Started taking the system apart starting with 120
vac and when i started tracing the 120 wires found 2 ft of flex and then
just open single conductor wires tied to cieling support for about 2 feet
then tied to a piece of romex which was plugged into an outlet in the
buildings garage. the ground instead of being run with electrical ground was
run to a local water pipoe and this created a diverted ground path and
showed why the panel burned up and part of the wall was scorcehed and
breaker took so long to trip.
Absolutley unbieliable some f--g moron installer/owner to f---g cheap to run
down 2 blocks to hardware store for the correct wire.
Thank god this idiot is no longer installing alarms. I let company who
bought his accounts know what i found so they can check his other work if
the feel so initaited to do so but they have just as bed a reputaion with
there work.

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Nick Markowitz Jr.

Markowitz Electric Protection
Private Industry Fire Investigator.

Contributing Editor Pa. Firemans Magazine

Contract Broadcast Engineer WAVL  910 AM Apollo Pa.

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