Which type of fire alarm system is connected to a municipal fire alarm system for transmitting an alarm to the public fire service communication center?

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The main idea here is how a fire alarm system communicates with the public fire service. An auxiliary fire alarm system is designed to connect with the municipal fire alarm system so that alarms from the building are transmitted directly to the public fire service communication center. In other words, it uses the city’s dispatch network rather than a private monitoring facility.

This matters because other system types involve private monitoring—central station or proprietary systems send signals to a monitoring center you hire, and that center notifies the fire department, rather than sending the alert straight into the municipal dispatch. A remote system is similar in that it’s monitored at a separate location rather than directly through the city’s fire alarm network. So the auxiliary type is the one that interfaces with the municipal system to reach the public fire service.