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The Athabasca Hotel (Jasper)

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System Specifications
FACP: Mircom FA-1000
FACP Location: Behind Front Desk
System Type: Conventional
System Line Voltage: 120VAC
NAC Voltage: 24VFWR
System Coding: Temporal
Strobes Synchronized: No
Date of last known Upgrade: 2021
Year Opened: 1929

The Athabasca Hotel is a hotel located at 510 Patricia St in Jasper, AB. The hotel is a historical landmark and meaningful gathering place for locals and visitors of Jasper National Park. It was built in 1929, and the fire alarm system was upgraded in 2017.

System Specifications

FACP

The building is protected by a Mircom FA-1000 conventional fire alarm system. The panel is located behind the front desk, and replaced a Mircom Series 1000 in 2021, The FA-1000 is in the cabinet of an Edwards 6500. The system coding is temporal.

Notification Appliances

All notification appliances are System Sensor “SpectrAlert Advance” P2RA (red, wall-mount, 2 wire) horn/strobes. These were installed in 2017.

Initiating Devices

Pull Stations

The pull stations are mostly early Mircom MS-401 (gray label) conventional pull stations. In the lobby, there is one Notifier MPS-950B pull station, installed as a deficiency replacement. There are white-label Mircom MS-401 pull stations on the third floor, in the gaming/entertainment room in O’Shea’s Restaurant, and in the main lobby, all as deficiency replacements. The gaming/entertainment room and O’Shea restaurant have one Edwards 270-SPO conventional pull station each, installed in the 2000s, also likely deficiency replacements.

Automatic Detection Devices

All smoke detectors are Mircom “i3” 2W-BA photoelectric smoke detectors.

Former System Specifications

System Specifications
FACP: Mircom Series 1000
FACP Location: Behind Front Desk
System Type: Conventional
System Line Voltage: 120VAC
NAC Voltage: 24VFWR
System Coding: Continuous?
Date of last known Upgrade: 2010s
Year Decomissioned: 2017 (panel remained until 2021)

FACP

The building was protected by a Mircom Series 1000 conventional fire alarm system. The panel was located behind the front desk, and was in an Edwards 6500 cabinet, which it replaced. The system coding was continuous. The Series 1000 remained until 2020.

Notification Appliances

Most notification appliances were Edwards “Durabel” 6100D vibrating bells (10” gong), installed in the 1980s. The gaming/entertainment room had an Edwards 439D-10AWC vibrating bell (10” gong) as a deficiency replacement.

Initiating Devices

Pull Stations

The pull stations are mostly early Mircom MS-401 (gray label) conventional pull stations. In the lobby, there is one Notifier MPS-950B pull station, installed as a deficiency replacement. There are white-label Mircom MS-401 pull stations on the third floor, in the gaming/entertainment room in O’Shea’s Restaurant as deficiency replacements. The gaming/entertainment room and O’Shea restaurant have one Edwards 270-SPO conventional pull station each, installed in the 2000s, also likely deficiency replacements.

Automatic Detection Devices

There were System Sensor 1412A ionization smoke detectors throughout the building.