Fire Alarm Notebook There's Nothing New Under the Sun

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Question: I work as a fire marshal for a medium-size southern city. I am seeing less and less traditional, hard-wired fire alarm systems, and more and more programmable multiplex systems with individual point annunciation for each fire alarm initiating device. Is my experience typical, or do we just have a bunch of "new technology geeks" running our fire alarm system installation companies in town? Answer: Your experience seems typical, as I speak with public and private Authorities Having Jurisdiction located in various parts of the United States and Canada. If anything, we in the U. S. lag a bit behind Europe, where programmable multiplex fire alarm systems have represented the bulk of the installed fire alarm systems for quite some time.