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| FACP: Notifier NFS2-640C FACP Location: Main Office System Type: Addressable System Line Voltage: 120VAC NAC Voltage: 24VDC System Coding: Temporal Strobes Synchronized: Yes Date of last known Upgrade: 2016 Year Opened: 1983 |
Wilma Hansen School is a junior high school located in the Queensland neighborhood of Southeast Calgary. It is part of the Calgary Board of Education (CBE) and has a capacity of 900 students, but is currently not at capacity. It teaches students in grades 7 to 9. The school was built in 1983, but does not have the original fire alarm system.
System Specifications
FACP
The building is protected by a Notifier NFS2-640C addressable fire alarm system. It was installed in 2016, following a system upgrade. The panel is located in the main office. The system runs Notifier's FlashScan addressable protocol, and the system coding is temporal.
Annunciators
There is a Notifier KDM-R2 LCD annunciator with a keypad near the main entrance.
Notification Appliances
All notification appliances are from System Sensor's "SpectrAlert Advance" line of products. The main notification appliances are System Sensor P2RA horn/strobes (red, wall-mount, 2-wire, set to 15cd). The volume setting varies throughout the school. The classrooms have System Sensor MHRA (red) mini-horns. The restrooms have System Sensor SRA (red, wall-mount) remote strobes. These were all installed in 2016 along with the panel.
Initiating Devices
Pull Stations
All pull stations are Notifier N-MPS-SA addressable single-action pull stations.
Automatic Detection Devices
There are Notifier FSP-851 addressable photoelectric smoke detectors located throughout the school, mounted on B210LP bases.
Bonus Information
Link to the fire alarm sounding at this school taken by User:TwentyThree33: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXZ7xQ8Qv-c
The building was formerly protected by the original Pyrotronics System 3 conventional fire alarm system. The notification appliances were bells, however no other information is known about this system as it was sourced from a RECAPP facility report from 2009.