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Willow Creek Continuing Care Centre

From FireAlarmPedia
System Specifications
FACP: Edwards EST3
FACP Location: Basement Mech. Room
System Type: Addressable
System Line Voltage: 120VAC
NAC Voltage: 24VDC
System Coding: 20BPM (Alert)
Temporal (Alarm)
Strobes Synchronized: N/A
Date of last known Upgrade: 2013
Year Opened: 1988

Willow Creek Continuing Care Centre is an assisted living facility located at 4221 8 Street West, in Claresholm, Alberta, Canada. The facility is owned and operated by Alberta Health Services. The facility opened in 1988, and the fire alarm system was upgraded in the 2010s.

System Specifications (2010s-present)

FACP

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

Annunciators

There are Edwards EST3-LCDANN annunciators with LCDXL1 displays in the main lobby, maintenance office, and at all nurse’s stations.

Notification Appliances

All notification appliances but one are Edwards 439D-6AWC vibrating bells (6” gong).

There is an original Simplex 2901-9329 vibrating bell (6” gong) in the women’s locker room.

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-PHS addressable combination photoelectric smoke and heat detectors in all corridors and patient rooms.

There are EST SIGA-HRS addressable 135°F fixed-temperature/rate-of-rise heat detectors in all other areas.

Some areas have Edwards SIGA-HRD addressable 135°F fixed-temperature/rate-of-rise heat detectors as deficiency replacements.

There is an Edwards SIGA-OSD addressable optical smoke detector in the server room as a deficiency replacement.

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

There are EST “SuperDuct” SIGA-SD addressable photoelectric duct smoke detectors on most air handling units. There is also a sprinkler system with waterflow detection.

Modules

There are EST SIGA-CT1 addressable monitor modules supervising the sprinkler system’s tamper and flow switches. There are EST SIGA-CR addressable relay modules serving various purposes.