Re: fire alarm devices
I believe my response was justified, was it not?
Ryan,
I'm not sure where you're going with this. My response was based purely on my experience with fire alarm AHJ's. Many of them have been volunteer firemen who were plumbers by trade and appointed to the position. In some cases their knowledge of fire alarm systems, detection and notification devices have been marginal. More often than not their justification for insisting on the installation of a device in a particular area was based purely on their own intuition and not by code. Unless the installation of that one device creates a severe hardship to the installing contractor, asking him/her to justify (as per code) the installation of one additional strobe on a sizable project creates more of a confrontational issue than anything else. Thus the reason for my response.
Could a hearing impaired individual hear a strobe if there were not one in the break room?
Just for the record and so that we're all on the same page with this, only Superman might have the ability to
hear a strobe. The rest of us who are not visually impaired can only
see them. The original question was whether the installation of a
strobe was a requirement.