A. The owner shall be responsible for the activation of a fire alarm system.
B. A response to the activation of a fire alarm system shall result when any officer or member of the fire department is dispatched to the premises where the fire alarm system has been activated.
1. At the time of response, the Charleston fire department or designee shall make every effort to notify any person identified as the property owner or point of contact for the property of the activation of the fire alarm system and may require such person to respond to the premises.
2. In the event the fire alarm system is a monitored system, it is the responsibility of the company monitoring the fire alarm system to notify any person identified as the property owner or point of contact at the request of the Charleston fire department.
3. In the event the household fire alarm system is a monitored system, it is the responsibility of the fire alarm business to offer the owner the option to verify the fire alarm signal before dispatch, as allowed by adopted code.
4. In the event the household fire alarm system is a monitored system, it is the responsibility of the fire alarm business to forward cancellation of a fire alarm signal to the fire department.
5. The Charleston fire department will respond to all fire alarms, including ones in which the department receives a cancellation, to verify that the alarm was truly a false alarm.
C. The officer or member of the fire department who responded to said premises shall complete an NFIRS fire report for each fire alarm that the department responds to indicating the cause of the alarm. (Ord. 16-O-41, 12-6-2016)