Fire Alarms in Stations

[Beaver76]

Fire Alarms

[Kissmyaxe]

We have 1 fire alarm pull station; it activates an audible alarm, but is not connected to any sort of Alarm Company.:cool:

[GuessWho]

The building we are housed in now does not have any sort of alarm or sprinkler, but the new house we are building will have a sprinkler system in it..

[HAZMAT-34]

Both of our stations do not have any type of sprinklers or alarms. Our new main station will have those though:D

[dfwfirefighter]

My station was built in 1951. Not only do we have neither a fire alarm system nor a sprinkler system, we are lucky that we have air conditioning! It usually keeps the dorm in the 70's in the summer and the 50's in the winter.

[dfwfirefighter]

Lets hear it for asbestos ceiling tiles!!!!!!!!

[purefire1066]

We had a halon system. One of the higher up had a idea to test the system, but ended up setting the system off releasing 300 lbs. of halon.

[Beep-Beep]

Our station is an older station, built many moons ago. However, since then, we have had a few renovations up to and including a fire sprinkler and a fire alarm system. At the time, the fire sprinkler system would only activate water motor gong, no interior evacuation alarm. The gong would only ring is water was actually running in the system.

Move to today; both fire sprinkler system and fire detection system are monitored by a fire alarm panel that is monitored by an alarm contractor. The station is staffed 24/7 but this is something we decided in the un-likely event we were out on a call, say an automatic alarm, who is back at the station to call if there was a fire?? The alarm contractor would call “9-1-1" just like thet would do for any other fire alarm they receive. Why should the fire department be any different? We certainly wouldn’t want our station burning down with out us being there or knowing about a fire there.

To add to the question; if you have a system, whether a automatic alarm or a fire sprinkler system, is it maintained in accordance with your local fire codes?

As for the AC and heat.. Sometimes we have it, sometime we don’t. And don’t forget about the ceiling leaks and broken water pipes at times too. And yes, the frick’n asbestos ceiling tiles!!

Be safe, and Happy New Year.

[emt38]

Our station was build in 1962 and added on to in 1996 in 2000 we put in a full fire alarm in the station with heat detectors and smoke detectors several pull stations at all the exits we have a dialer that calls our 911 center and the chief and president if it is set off i think we had around 7000.00 in the whole thing best money we ever spent in my option

[Firepolice112]

Hi to all online ( career/vol,) . IN the station I work out of it's man 24/7 all year around . With the police dept, above the station . We don't have a auto alarm or sprinkler it's a very old building , but there are smokealarms every where on all floors .Now for the station that are not man there should be a alarm and sprinklers.

[ohfrmn89]

our station has alarm system and yes also manned 24/7 it is not sprinklered except for a co2 system over the oven. and yes we know the alarm system works, burnt popcorn in microwave does wonders for testing the smoke alarms....lol. i don't think we have pull stations but i doknow there's smoke alarms throughout the building.

[Frank Raffa]

We used to have a Halon system in the office until they deemed it a Haz-Mat and pulled the system. Since then we have A-B-C cans.

Many years ago the powers that be decided that the central office needed an alarm system. The contractor, having no idea where he was, started hooking up a connection for a central station. When asked why he replied that it was necessary since the alarm company would then call the fire department. "Do you know what this building is?" he was asked. He said, "Yes, it's the Fi... Ohhhhhhhhhhh."

You can't make this stuff up.

[Dalmtions]

I actually work at an Alarm company and can tell you that having a monitored alarm system is not that silly of an idea. I know of a station in California that was destroyed because the guys were out on a call and they had an electrical fire. The alarm rang locally but by the time a passer-by called 911 the station was fully involved. It may sound silly but if the alarm had reported to a central station the next due engine company would have saved the fire house.