A double alarm structure fire broke out on Wealthy Ave in Pittsfield Thursday afternoon, leading to a rapid response from the ...

The fire alarm system was disabled in April during maintenance work conducted by West Penn Power. According to Greensburg-Salem Superintendent Ken Bissell, the outage occurred when a surge ...

Group B fire alarm requirements can be found in IFC 907.2.2. This section is similar to the 907.2.1 requirements for Group A “Assembly” occupancies but has an added condition for multiple floors.

Returning to IFC Section 907, we see that 907.2.1 addresses assembly occupancies, stating that a manual fire alarm system is required if the Group A portion of the building exceeds 300 people or ...

A new fire station in Germany that was destroyed in a fire, causing millions of euros in damage, did not have a fire alarm system. The fire broke out early Wednesday morning at the Stadtallendorf ...

Starting October 10, Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service will not be attending automatic fire alarm activations unless a building is deemed to be a high-risk building or, unless a fire has been ...

False alarms account for 45% of all incidents, according to the fire service, with 99.3% of automatic fire alarm notifications requiring no action by the service.

Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service (OFRS) said that from 10 October, "unless there are clear signs of fire", it would only respond to automatic alarms in high-risk buildings.

A fire service has announced it will soon stop attending automatic fire alarm alerts unless a building is deemed to be high risk. Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service (OFRS) said that from 10 ...

ESFRS attends an average of 10,000 incidents each year. Automatic fire alarm systems account for 36% of calls, of which 97% turn out to be false alarms.