UK housing association Cottsway has installed C-Tec’s Hush Buttons at several of its sheltered blocks of flats.
Cottsway Housing providessocial housing in West Oxfordshire.
A C-Tec spokesman said: "A major breakthrough in the battle against false alarms in flats, apartments
and sheltered accommodation, Hush Buttons provide residents with the means to
silence false alarms themselves should they set the fire alarm off
accidentally, thus preventing unnecessary building evacuations, expensive fire
service call outs or a true fire alarm signal being ignored."
Colin Walker, fire safety officer at Cottsway, said: “We installed Hush Buttons
as part of the fire alarm upgrades within our sheltered blocks of flats which
do not have wardens or staff on-site 24 hours a day.
"At some flats there was real complacency that if the fire alarm sounded it was because someone had
burnt the toast. C-TEC’s Hush Buttons have eradicated false alarms and
restored confidence in the fire alarm system.”
The systems have been designed to work with Apollo XP95 or Hochiki ESP analogue addressable fire alarm systems.
