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First Alert is the retail brand of American safety equipment manufacturer BRK Brands, Inc., [1] established in 1976 and based in Aurora, Illinois, with a production plant in Juarez, Mexico. Products sold with the brand include carbon monoxide detectors, smoke alarms , fire extinguishers , and other safety products like flashlights and fire ...
Manual fire alarm activation is the process of triggering a fire alarm through a call point, pull station, or other device. This usually causes the alarm to sound the evacuation signal for the relevant building or zone.
Fire alarm systems are required in most commercial buildings. They may include smoke detectors, heat detectors, and manual fire alarm activation devices (pull stations). All components of a fire alarm system are connected to a fire alarm control panel. Fire alarm control panels are usually found in an electrical or panel room.
In 1970, Space Age Electronics introduced the first visual notification appliance, the AV32 light plate (which was installed over an existing horn) and V33 remote light. Meanwhile, in 1976, Wheelock introduced the first horn/strobe notification appliances with its 7000 series. The majority of visual signals throughout the 1970s and 1980s were ...
Fire-Lite was the first company to introduce a compact, inexpensive addressable fire alarm control panel. [2] Some of their recognizable products include the Fire-Lite BG-10 pull station, introduced in 1983, and the newer BG-12 pull station, introduced in 1999. Fire-Lite is part of the Honeywell Life Safety Group, along with Notifier.
Kidde (/ ˈ k ɪ d ə / [2]) is an American multinational company that manufactures and distributes fire detection and suppression equipment, as well as smoke and CO alarm units. Kidde is one of America's largest manufacturers of smoke alarms [3] [4] and fire safety products. [5]
The large number of alarms, especially of false alarms, has led to several unintended outcomes. Some consequences are disruption in patient care, [10] desensitization to alarms, [11] anxiety in hospital staff and patients, [11] sleep deprivation and depressed immune systems, [11] misuse of monitor equipment including "work-arounds" such as turning down alarm volumes or adjusting device ...
Life Alert's sales training manual encouraged sales representatives to say that people were in danger without the system and to "go for the emotional sale, not a logical sale." [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Life Alert's sales representatives would initially quote an inflated price and then quoted a lower price in order to make the person think they were ...