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Smoke alarms, are they appropriate.

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Part of the communal areas of purpose built sheltered housing flats on three floors with a lift that has a full monitored fire alarm system, that closes the internal fire doors and opens the exterior doors when activated. 


Each individual flat has a heat alarm in its hallway connected to the communal alarm system and also has an Aico interconnected smoke and heat alarm system that is connected to the intercom system allowing the call centre to monitor them and speak to the tenants to ask why they have been activated. 


Can you think of any justification for installing very basic domestic battery operated smoke alarms in the communal areas?


Because I cannot think of any way their installation can be justified, particularly as they will not be monitored in any way and should not be required. 


Andy B
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    I emailed the HA and copied in the fire brigade.


    The fire brigade forwarded the email to the personal assistant of their chief fire officer and their legal department as well as replying to me with a letter saying they will be conducting an investigation. I cannot fault the action by the fire brigade as they appear to have passed my email straight up to the highest level within their authority. 


    So I printed the letter from the fire brigade and my original email and hand delivered them to the HA onsite manager.


    I assume someone from the fire alarm contractor has come back up to have another go at fixing the alarm system, however the panel now shows a different error message and is now emitting an intermittent audible warning tone that was not present before. 


    Apparently the alarm has actually been partially disabled for four weeks and it looks like there is not going to be a quick resolution to the problem.

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    Andy Betteridge 




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    I emailed the HA and copied in the fire brigade.


    The fire brigade forwarded the email to the personal assistant of their chief fire officer and their legal department as well as replying to me with a letter saying they will be conducting an investigation. I cannot fault the action by the fire brigade as they appear to have passed my email straight up to the highest level within their authority. 


    So I printed the letter from the fire brigade and my original email and hand delivered them to the HA onsite manager.


    I assume someone from the fire alarm contractor has come back up to have another go at fixing the alarm system, however the panel now shows a different error message and is now emitting an intermittent audible warning tone that was not present before. 


    Apparently the alarm has actually been partially disabled for four weeks and it looks like there is not going to be a quick resolution to the problem.

    b6b0f087f7ca5ecd8b70e9792dc65167-huge-20200110_174434.jpg


    Andy Betteridge 




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