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125-198 8888 Country Hills Blvd NW, Calgary

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System Specifications
FACP: Mircom FX-2000

FACP Location: Sobeys Main Entrance
System Type: Addressable
System Line Voltage: 120VAC
NAC Voltage: 24VFWR

System Coding: Temporal
Date of last known Upgrade: 2017
Year Opened: 2003/2004

8888 Country Hills Blvd NW aka Royal Oak Center is a shopping centre with many plazas. This one is for the units number 125-198 in a plaza. This plaza was built in 2003 or 2004, but has had its current fire alarm system since July 2017. It is unknown why the alarms were replaced. This plaza consists of a Sobeys, Ohana Care, PetValu, Williams Paints, Subway, Freshii and Royal Oak Clinic.

System Specifications (2017-present)

FACP

The building is protected by a Mircom FX-2000 addressable fire alarm system. The panel is located in the Sobeys main entrance vestibule. The system runs Mircom's CLIP addressable protocol, and the system coding is temporal.

Notification Appliances

All indoor notification appliances are System Sensor "SpectrAlert Advance" P2RA horn/strobes (red, wall-mount, set to 15cd). These are ceiling-mounted in Sobeys, and wall-mounted elsewhere. For outdoor notification, there is a System Sensor SRKA weatherproof remote strobe (red, wall-mount) outside PetValu.

Initiating Devices

Pull Stations

All pull stations are Mircom MS-401AD addressable single-action pull stations.

Automatic Detection Devices

None noticed, waterflow present.

Former System Specifications (2003-2017)

System Specifications
FACP: EST QuickStart QS1

FACP Location: Sobeys Entrance Vestibule
System Type: Addressable
System Line Voltage: 120VAC
NAC Voltage: 24VFWR

System Coding: Temporal
Date of last known Upgrade: 2012
Final year in active service: 2017

FACP

The building was protected by an EST QuickStart QS1 addressable fire alarm system. The panel was located in the Sobeys main entrance vestibule. The system ran EST's Signature-series addressable protocol, and the system coding was temporal.

Notification Appliances

Sobeys

All notification appliances were EST "Genesis" GC-HDVM horn/strobes (white, ceiling-mount, no lettering).

Other Tenants

All notification appliances were EST "Genesis" G1R-HDVM horn/strobes (red, wall-mount, no lettering).

Initiating Devices

Pull Stations

All pull stations were EST SIGA-270 addressable single-action pull stations.

Automatic Detection Devices

None noticed.

List of known activations

July 12, 2018 - alarm at around 10:54 AM, activated by a pull station in the Sobeys backroom after being hit by an object. Store was almost evacuated, cause found to be false as confirmed by manager and Calgary Fire Department. Alarm shut off after 20 minutes.