Why Monitor your Fire Alarm Panel

 

Monitoring is the term for when a building's fire alarm panel is watched and scrutinized by a central station which is responsible to notify the local fire department when there is a threat of fire.  Having the fire alarm panel monitored by our central monitoring station minimizes the risk to lives and property.

Without monitoring the best hope for insuring life and property is that someone smells the smoke or sees the fire, and calls 911.

The B.C. Building Code 3.2.4.7 and the Vancouver Building Bylaw state that fire alarm monitoring is required in buildings that:

  • are designated as assembly with an occupant load over 300 ("installed in a building of assembly occupancy that has an occupant load more than 300 shall be designed to notify the fire department")
  • have an automatic sprinkler system ("A fire alarm system that includes water flow-indicating devices shall be designed to notify the fire department")
  • have a two-stage fire alarm system ("A 2 stage fire alarm system shall be designed to notify the fire department")