Question:
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

Answer: That's a nice feature...There is no way in hell I can picture an AHJ allowing a fire panel to be remotely reset in this manner, let alone a dealer that would install it that way. I'd be disconnecting that annunciator ASAP. Makes you wonder how many times they've actually done this? And what would happen if a real fire had happen. Just more proof that you can't pay someone $6.75 an hour and expect that person to use his own common sense, or have any. Good story. I make a living around replacing Guards, and this is just another example of why it's so lucrative.