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Multifamily fire alarms
Question for anyone who owns large multi-family dwellings:
I own an apartment building in Kansas that has a central fire alarm system. If one person has smoke in their unit and causes the alarm to go off, the alarm in all units go off, and the fire department is automatically notified and is required to show up (is what I'm told by the FD and PD). Even though there is no actual emergency, they show up anyway. After a certain number of calls to the same property within an annual period, the city starts charging my company per call (~$250/call). Is there a way to pass along the cost to tenants who have chronic problems with causing smoke by burning their food etc.?