Located in Hollister, Calif., and serving the San Francisco Bay and Monterey Bay areas, First Trust adds alarm service to Pye-Barker’s robust fire protection presence in the region.

Led by a majority investment from Abry Partners, the new platform combines Assurant Fire Protection, Complete Fire Pump Service and Xtreme Fire Protection. 

Although the industry remains subject to supply chain disruption, a precarious labor shortage and other headwinds, multiple growth factors are creating a lot of overall positivity across the fire alarm systems marketplace. 

STI’s Universal Stopper low profile protective cover is an indoor/outdoor low profile polycarbonate cover that flashes and sounds a warning horn when activated.

What good is a fire alarm system without an effective means of notifying building occupants when there’s a fire in progress? Not much.

The latest version of the UL standard for smoke detectors is designed to help ensure that devices can both detect a wider variety of fires, and avoid generating a nuisance alarm when there is not an emergency.

B Safe Inc., a regional provider of security and fire alarms to Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, has continued to expand with the acquisition of Securitech Inc. of Wilmington, Del. and DC Security Systems of Toms River, N.J.