The CFAA Fire Alarm Technician’s Podcast

This week, we hear from a Brazilian-born technician and his journey to Canada and his successful entry into the Fire Alarm industry. We discuss how important English-language skills are for a new Canadian to successfully find work in Canada.Thanks Rafael!

On this week's episode, we go wayyyy back to the begining and talk about the origin story of the CFAA, from back in preliminary meetings well before the inception in 1974 nad how it has changed up to today.Thanks to Gerry and Stephen!

This week we continue our series on troubleshooting by delving into the world of ground faults. This is the first episode on ground faults and we will continue further in future episodes. Thanks Tom Richards!We also have Jordan Klemick ,CFAA president on with a year-end message, recorded in December 2025. We discuss some of the projects taht are ongoing and reviewe 2025 with the CFAA.

Episode 50! Wow! 2 years in and 50 episodes down! This week we have Blair Falkinson from US Digital Designs to discuss the montoring connection and how it gets to our dispatchers and ultimately to the Fire Department first responders.

On this episode, we dig into some advanced troubleshooting techniques for NAC and Speaker circuits and even have a little chat about toners and how they are used.Thanks Steven and Tom!*Apologies for my yappy dog in the background! Bad dog!

On this episode of the podcast, we dig deeper into troubleshooting techniques and differences between Addressable and Converntional fire alarm circuits.

Another episode with Deputy Fire Marshall John McBeth to explore the world of batteries and devices that we use around our home that have Lithium Ion Batteries. https://www.oafc.on.ca/about/announcements/fire-news-headlines/office-fire-marshal-warns-ontarians-growing-lithium-ion