Fire alarm cabling has become incrementally more complex over the years, in part driven by the trend toward mass notification, which is a factor of the fire alarm system. Mass notification — a one- or ...

Interest in emergency systems rose sharply after 9/11 and remains high. Building owners no longer install fire alarm signaling systems just to satisfy their insurance company. Today, their motivation ...

On Feb. 4, 2017, at 2328 hrs, the University of Maryland Security Operations Center (SOC) received the first of multiple fire alarm activations through the university’s Keltron Alarm Monitoring System ...

This month’s reader questions focus on sprinkler alarms. As it turns out, there is a lot of confusion over which NFPA rule — 13 or 72 — applies. Why does my local fire inspector think the fire alarm ...

"...the firefighters encountered a mild electrical burning odor. The firefighter/maintenance worker informed the crew that the problem most likely was associated with ...