County to replace courthouse fire-detection system after 25 years
Facilities supervisor Kevin Jolley said the courthouse’s smoke and heat detection system is aging; the board approved a roughly $38,300 contract with Salem Fire Alarm Inc. to replace detectors, pull stations, monitoring and perform testing and fire-marshal commissioning.
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Kevin Jolley, facilities supervisor, briefed the board on a non-prevailing-wage contract with Salem Fire Alarm Inc. to replace the courthouse fire-detection system. Jolley said components of the existing system are about 25 years old and replacements for some parts are no longer available; the planned work includes replacement of 94 smoke detectors, four heat detectors, 13 manual pull stations, new monitoring for sprinklers, relay modules, programming, testing and fire-marshal commissioning.
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