| Westchester Fairfield Hebrew Academy |
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Fire Alarm Merges Emergency Communications for
Multi-Cultural Grade School Campus
The Westchester Fairfield Hebrew Academy, located in Greenwich,
Conn., provides education for 200 students ranging from kindergarten
through the eighth grade. The Academy shares its 19-acre campus
with the Greenwich Japanese School, which educates approximately
180 coeds in the same age range. The campus recently invested
more than $3 million in capital improvements to restore 16 buildings
and upgrade to the latest security and life safety systems.
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| Grundfos-Indianapolis manufacturing facility |
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Industrial Plant’s Fire Protection, Communications and Intelligibility Issues Solved
The Grundfos-Indianapolis manufacturing facility in Indianapolis, Ind., was in need of a fi re alarm upgrade. Initially, the plant intended to get a code-compliant, addressable fi re alarm system with horns and strobes for notifi cation, capable of covering the site’s 300,000 square-feet of offi ces and manufacturing space.
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| GateWay Community College |
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Fire Alarm/Emergency Communications System Makes the Grade at Community College
Now that a new fi re alarm and emergency communications system is up and running at Phoenix’s 30-acre GateWay Community College campus, Director of Facilities Charlie Poure can breathe a big sigh of relief.
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| Nellis Air Force Base |
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Air Force Base Opts for Combo Fire Alarm/Mass Notification System
Several miles outside of Las Vegas, Nev., Nellis Air Force Base (AFB) serves as the home and a major training site for two historically significant flying units: the 64th and 65th Aggressor squadrons (AGRS). During the Cold War, this group of highly trained pilots flew an assortment of Russian-made MiG aircraft (sometimes covertly obtained) to decipher the actions of potential enemies of the United States Air Force.
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| Beverly Hills, California |
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Trendy Fire Protection for Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills, California, has been glamorized in countless film and television depictions as the home of the wealthy and the famous. Beyond the glamour, though, it has municipal management issues that are much like those faced by any city.
NFPA Journal features Beverly Hills' fire & emergency communications solution - View Slideshow >
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| Van Duyn Home & Hospital |
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FIRE ALARM TRANSPLANT GIVES HEALTHCARE FACILITY EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS UPGRADE
Thirty years ago, Onondaga County in upstate New York, opened the Van Duyn Home & Hospital (VDHH) Residential Health Care Facility. As the only county-run nursing home in Onondaga County, its seven floors and 513 beds offer much-needed care for residents of Syracuse and the surrounding areas. The facility’s property includes one main building, where all residents live, and two small outbuildings for auxiliary services.
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| Oaklawn Racing & Gaming |
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There’s No Gamble When it Comes to Life Safety
Racetracks and casinos have something in common: They both serve patrons who enjoy playing the odds and putting their money on the line. But no one wants to gamble when it comes to fire safety. That’s why Oaklawn Racing and Gaming in Hot Springs, Arkansas, has revamped its fire system to ensure that it is doing all it can to protect guests, staff, and property in case of a fire or emergency.
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| Goodwin House Bailey’s Crossroads |
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Advanced Life Safety System Connects & Protects
Growing Assisted Living Complex
Goodwin House Bailey’s Crossroads, an upscale, urban residential/healthcare facility located in Falls Church, Virginia, consists of a 360,000 square foot, 12-floor tower where more than 350 retirees conduct their daily lives. ”
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| Miami Lexus Dealership |
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Lexus of North Miami is a Florida-based, high-end auto retailer offering an assortment of elaborate amenities intended to support the lifestyle of the dealership’s patrons. Built and owned by the Craig Zinn Automotive Group of Hollywood, Florida, the five-story, 1.2 million square-foot facility has an estimated construction value of more than $70 million.
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| Mass Notification System on Duty at Fort Knox |
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The severity and frequency of recent occurrences such as Hurricane Katrina, September 11 terrorist attacks, the Oklahoma City bombing, Khobar Tower and others have led policy-makers in key organizations, as well as state and federal lawmakers, to realize that good planning and an effective means of mass notification can be crucial to the survival of large numbers of people.
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| Clare Oaks Campus |
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Specialized Fire Protection for Special Community - The Sisters of St. Joseph of the Third Order of St. Francis built the Clare Woods Academy, a school for children with special needs, as an adjunct to their church in 1968. Thirty-five years later, a portion of their 41-acre grounds was dedicated to the construction of a non-denominational retirement community.
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| FENWAY FIRE PROTECTION HOMERUN |
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Fire detection and fire control functions are major considerations when it comes to sports arenas and other places of public assembly. In recent years it has become painfully obvious to civil authorities and private-sector stakeholders that voice evacuation systems specified today should do more than direct people to the nearest point of egress.
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| Chicago Temple Building - E3 Series® EVAC Protects Chicago Landmark |
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The EVAC system chosen for this installation was that of the E3 Series® Expandable Emergency Evacuation system, manufactured by Gamewell-FCI. Its modular design enabled Creed’s fire technicians to build the system as large or small as needed while allowing for easy expansion or reconfiguration down the road. This can be especially helpful when the AHJ (Authority Having Jurisdiction) requires additional protection when future remodeling takes place.
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| OKLAHOMA BLOOD INSTITUTE BANKS ON GAMEWELL-FCI |
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Voice Evacuation, Expandable Networking, Remote Monitoring and Safe Blood Supply Saves Lives - When a medical emergency develops and people are in need, Oklahoma Blood Institute (OBI) is there to help, striving to provide the safest and highest quality blood supply, services and health programs.
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| Hospital Receives Healthy Dose of Fire Protection From
Consolidated Gamewell-FCI System |
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Life safety is extremely important in hospital environments due to the large majority of occupants who may not be able to fend for themselves in an evacuation situation. This is especially true of large multiple-building campuses
where the lives of hundreds of patients could be in jeopardy if a fire were to go unnoticed for even a small period of time.
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| E3 Series® System Protects Historic Statehouse,
Exceeding State’s Strict Fire Standards |
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RI (Rhode Island) has historically been one of the most rigorous states in the nation when it comes to fire protection. Despite this track record, 100 people lost their lives in a tragic nightclub fire in West Warwick, RI, in 2003. Since that time, RI fire officials and lawmakers have worked to further tighten the state’s stringent fire protection laws.
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| Arkansas’s First Security Center |
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When your facility is comprised of a variety of different entities, each with different safety needs and each governed by unique safety codes, your fire safety system needs to be a quick thinker: both decisive and responsive.
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| Gamewell-FCI E3 Series® Fire System Delivers
for U.S. Postal Service |
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The USPS (United States Postal Service) Processing and Distribution Center in Dallas, Texas is part of a national network of mechanized bulk mail centers that process first class letters and parcels. This 439,959 square foot facility sorts and routes an average of 4.3 million pieces of mail each day from Dallas out to the entire world.
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| The Rinks at Shelton Scores with Gamewell Fire Protection |
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At the new 90,000 square foot, multi-level sports complex known as The Rinks at Shelton, fire and ice definitely do not mix. The management made sure of this by protecting patrons at this state-of-the-art ice rink in Shelton, CT, with the most advanced fire safety system available—an Identiflex 632 Analog Addressable Control Panel from Gamewell-FCI.
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| Gamewell-FCI Reduces False Alarms by 98% |
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Using the IdentiFlex 654 and IdentiFlex 658 intelligent fire alarm control panels and over 2000 points of intelligent fire detection, they reduced false alarms by 98%, helping both the employees and guests at this slope-side paradise sleep better at night.
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| Gamewell-FCI Brings Life Saving Advantages to a Deaf-Blind Assisted Living Facility |
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The IdentiFlex 610 alerts residents and staff by triggering hi-intensity strobes and bed shakers as well as vibrating pagers worn by the occupants at all times.
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| Ritz-Carlton Hotel in New York City |
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The comprehensive Gamewell-FCI system that Classic Designed Systems installed at The Ritz-Carlton New York, Battery Park includes a Distributed Fire Alarm/Voice Evacuation System and an Addressable Monitor Module, as well as Analog Addressable Photo-Electronic Smoke Sensors, Analog Addressable Heat Detectors, Fixed Temperature Heat Detectors and other notification appliances and initiating devices.
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