Re: Radio shack burg panel being used as apartment fire alarm

["Robert L Bass" <Sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Jim Rojas" <jrojas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> mleuck wrote:
>> On Nov 18, 5:06 pm, nick markowitz<nmarkow...@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>> Saw it all today  some one piped in pull stations and smokes etc to
>>> then tie it into a Radio shack Safe House burg panel with a fire loop
>>> and this along with one strobe horn served as the fire alarm for the
>>> building to make matters worse an alarm company took and installed a
>>> NX-8-CF in basement tied it to the safehouse panel  so the NX8-cf
>>> could  be used as a fire dialer and no keypad or local sounder on the
>>> NX8 set up.
>>> talk about a lawsuit waiting to happen.
>>
>> Sounds like something a DIY'er would do
>
> These kind of setups were an industry norm before NFPA 72 came into play. Then
> the AHJ took almost 15+ years to catch up with the standards. Even with all
> the new standards, many fire marshals still have no clue.

It was probably monitored by Monitronics.  Those guys specialize in garbage
alarms.