High River General Hospital

System Specifications
FACP: Edwards EST3 FACP Location: Maintenance Office System Type: Two-Stage Addressable System Line Voltage: 120VAC NAC Voltage: 24VDC System Coding: 20BPM (Alert) Temporal (Alarm) Strobes Synchronized: Yes, EST Date of last known Upgrade: 2004 Year Opened: 1982, 2004

The High River General Hospital is a hospital located at 560 9 Avenue Southwest, in High River, Alberta, Canada. The hospital is owned and operated by Alberta Health Services. The hospital was built in 1982, and was expanded in 2004. The fire alarm system was upgraded following the 2004 expansion.

System Specifications (2004-present)

FACP

The building is protected by an Edwards EST3 addressable fire alarm system. The panel is located in the maintenance office. The system runs Edwards’ Signature addressable protocol, and is configured for two-stage operation. The alert coding is 20BPM, and the alarm coding is temporal.

Annunciators

There are Edwards EST3-LCDANN annunciators at all nurse’s stations.

The cancer centre annunciator is equipped with the Edwards LCDXL1 display; all others are equipped with the standard display.

There is an Edwards EST3-6ANN annunciator in the main entrance vestibule.

Booster Panels

There is an Edwards BPS6A booster power supply located next to the main fire alarm panel.

Notification Appliances

Most notification appliances are Edwards MB10-24 motor bells (10” gong) mounted on Edwards 403-5A-R strobe plates (15cd).

Newly renovated areas have System Sensor SSM24-6A motor bells (6” gong) mounted on Edwards 403-5A-R strobe plates (15cd).

Some areas have Edwards 439D-10AWC vibrating bells (10" gong) mounted remotely, likely left over from the original system; these are still in use.

Initiating Devices

Pull Stations

All pull stations are EST SIGA-270P addressable two-stage single-action pull stations.

Automatic Detection Devices

There are EST SIGA-PS addressable photoelectric smoke detectors throughout all corridors and in all patient rooms.

Some patient rooms and all elevator shafts have Edwards SIGA-PD addressable photoelectric smoke detectors as deficiency replacements.

Some areas mentioned above have Edwards SIGA-OSD addressable optical smoke detectors as deficiency replacements.

All other areas have Edwards SIGA-HRD or EST SIGA-HRS addressable 135°F fixed-temperature/rate-of-rise heat detectors. There is a 75/25 mix of HRD to HRS throughout.

All aforementioned detectors are mounted on EST SIGA-SB bases.

There is a conventional heat detector in the gas meter room; model to be confirmed, wired to an EST SIGA-CT1 addressable monitor module.

There are EST SIGA-DH duct smoke detector housings with EST SIGA-PS addressable photoelectric heads and EST SIGA-SB bases on most air handling units: two on the second floor and one in the penthouse. The second floor duct smokes are equipped with EST SIGA-LED remote indicators, and the penthouse duct smoke is equipped with an Edwards 5956A remote indicator.

Modules

There are EST SIGA-CT1 addressable monitor modules supervising the kitchen suppression system, and the sprinkler system’s tamper and flow switches.

There are EST SIGA-CR addressable relay modules serving various purposes.

There is an EST SIGA-CRH addressable high-power relay module for primary elevator recall.

There are EST SIGA-IM addressable isolator modules on some SLCs.

EOLs

There are Edwards EOL-P1 end of line resistor plates on the kitchen suppression circuit, and all sprinkler and signal circuits.

System Specifications (1982-2004)

Former System Specifications
FACP: Edwards Custom 6500 FACP Location: Maintenance Office System Type: Two-Stage Conventional System Line Voltage: 120VAC NAC Voltage: 24VDC System Coding: 20BPM (alert) Continuous (alarm) Date of last known Upgrade: 1990s Year Installed: 1982 Year Decommissioned: 2004

FACP

The building was protected by an Edwards Custom 6500 conventional fire alarm system. The panel was located in the maintenance office. The system was configured for two-stage operation. The alert signal was 20BPM, followed by continuous as the alarm signal.

Annunciators

There were custom Edwards lamp annunciators at some entrances and at all nurses' stations.

Notification Appliances

The notification appliances were a mix of Edwards "Durabel" 6100D vibrating bells (10" gong) and Edwards 439D-10AWC vibrating bells (10" gong).

Initiating Devices

Pull Stations

All pull stations were Edwards 270-GAO conventional two-stage pull stations.

Automatic Detection Devices

There were Edwards 6250C conventional ionization smoke detectors throughout all corridors and in all patient rooms.
There were Edwards 281C conventional 135°F fixed-temperature/rate-of-rise heat detectors in some areas.
Each air handling unit had an Edwards 6260A-CU duct smoke detector housing with Edwards 6264C-001 conventional ionization heads, wired to Edwards 5956A remote LED indicators.

EOLs

There were Edwards EOL-P1 end-of-line resistor plates on most circuits.