Alberta Children's Hospital

Alberta Children's Hospital is a 4 story hospital near the University of Calgary and the neighborhood of Varsity in NW Calgary. It is the largest children's hospital in the prairie provinces. It was built in 2006, and the system is original. There are some differences from the parkade and the main hospital for some reason. User YYCsFireAlarmNimrod has been able to reset the system!

Aerial View of the Hospital

System Specifications

FACP

The hospital is protected by an EST3 fire alarm system. The fire alarm control panels were installed in 2006, so they are original to the hospital. There are several panels located throughout, they can be seen in the hallway to the parkade, in a security room, and some are hidden. Annunciators are seen throughout, even in the offices for units. The system is two-stage, and although not truly voice evac, a security guard will come on and say a code red, for example "Code red, level 0, clinical genetics" or "code red, drill, lower level kitchen". The system does the EST3/Edwards 8500 chime every 3 seconds for first stage, and second stage is probably a chime in march time. All strobes are synchronized.

Notification Appliances

The main hospital's notification appliances consist of EST Integrity 965-1A-8RW round ceiling speakers throughout, and EST Integrity 202-5A-TW strobes (all with LKC-1, ceiling FIRE lenses) usually beside them. They are usually seen in a pattern like strobe, no strobe, strobe, no strobe etc, however, on the third floor by the elevators, the speaker and strobe are 7 feet apart. It is unknown why they didn't install just speaker/strobes. Some areas, like the Calgary Laboratory Services, have just speakers and no strobes. The stairwells in the main hospital wing have EST Genesis G4-S7 (white, wall, no FIRE) speakers on the ceilings. The parkade hallways have EST Integrity 965-5A-8RW round ceiling mounted 8" speaker strobes, and the parkade itself has EST 965-3A-8SW square speaker/strobes on backboxes. The stairwells at the parkade have EST Genesis G4R-S7 (red, wall, no FIRE) and G4RF-S7 (red, wall, FIRE) speakers. The speakers are tapped pretty soft, likely due to it being a hospital and not wanting to startle workers or patients.

Initiating Devices

Pull Stations

The main hospital wing's pull stations consist of EST SIGA-270P two-stage pull-stations. Most are original from 2006, but a few are EST/GE. The parkade hallways and parkade have EST SIGA-270 single stage pull-stations for some unknown reason. Just like the SIGA-270Ps, most are original but some are newer. There's one SIGA-270 that says "Out of Order". Most likely two pull stations have to be activated to go into 2nd stage.

Automatic Detection Devices

The smoke detectors are EST SIGA-PS addressable photoelectric smoke detectors. They're seen throughout, and are even in family units.