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N8N

wrote:
Last year we purchased a brand new industrial/office building in Orange
County, CA. The building came with fire sprinklers installed and there
is also a phone line dedicated to call 911 should a fire occur. We are
paying for this phone line apart from the regular phone lines that we
are paying for our normal office use.
I am wondering if there is any mandatory code requirement to have this
fire service phone line standby at all times? Or is it OK to disconnect
this phone line service, but of course, keeping the sprinklers.

Any tips are welcome.

Thanks

I don't know about CA but here (NoVA/DC) you are required to have a
dedicated phone line for your fire alarm system's dialer, and also to
maintain a monitoring service (assuming that the building is not
occupied 24/7 and that the FACP does not report to a continuously
occupied station such as a PBX room or similar) It might even be a
requirement in NFPA 72 but I am too lazy to look it up right now. In
any case be vewwy, vewwy caweful about discontinuing services that you
may be required to maintain.

If nothing else, wouldn't you want the FD to respond to a fire
condition at your building?

nate