USD 257 school board members gave the green light to replace the high school’s aging fire alarm system at a cost of $237,453 during Monday evening’s meeting.

The Pequot Lakes School Board approved the installation of a new Potter Fire Alarm System as part of district facilities ...

The project includes replacement of fire alarm systems, emergency lighting, and communications upgrades at Haynes and Nixon ...

Fire detection systems are designed to discover fires early in their development when time will still be available for the safe evacuation of occupants. Early detection also plays a significant role ...

False/nuisance alarms continue to be a thorn in the sides of university, school and hospital protection professionals. Whether false/nuisance alarms are caused by burned popcorn, shower steam, lack of ...

Business fires cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damages every year, making this one of the most important safety issues for business owners and office or facility managers to address.

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 ...

You may hear it if you own a scanner. Whenever there's a fire, firefighters call for a first alarm, then maybe a second... or even more. But what does it mean? What does each alarm indicate? Basically ...