Tag: Brothers Fire Protection

Margaret Jacques recently joined Brothers Fire Protection, based in Elk River, Minn., as a life safety sales representative. She'll focus on Brothers' commercial and multihousing clients, helping them develop effective and economical programs to manage their life safety systems. Security Systems News caught up with Margaret in June and asked her five questions:Are you a Minnesota native?I was born in Illinois, but my family moved to Minnesota when I was little. I grew up in Coon Rapids. I'm one of...

ELK RIVER, Minn.—Brothers Fire Protection announced May 12 that the company was recognized by Siemens USA for national fire panel sales. Brothers won a second place award at the annual Siemens Distributor Conference, held in Orlando, Fla. earlier this year. Siemens USA is a subsidiary of Germany-based Siemens AG. Siemens USA employs about 52,000 employees in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. Siemens USA offers safety and security solutions to commercial clients. Offerings include managed security...

ELK RIVER, Minn.—Brothers Fire Protection, based here, received a fire sprinkler renovation and upgrade contract worth more than $250,000 for a new practice facility for the Minnesota Timberwolves and Minnesota Lynx, which are NBA and WNBA teams respectively.The new practice facility for the basketball teams is part of a $50 million redevelopment project in downtown Minneapolis, Minn. The redevelopment also will include a Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine CenterBrothers President Stephen Cieslukowski...

ELK RIVER, Minn.—Brothers Fire Protection, a complete life safety solutions company, in February announced it had won two big sprinkler jobs totaling more than $1.25 million—one at a student housing complex and one at an Air Force base.Brothers started as a sprinkler company 20 years ago. “We added the alarm/security business in 2009,” company President Stephen Cieslukowski told Security Systems News. “The two businesses do complement each other well, and it allows us...

ELK RIVER, Minn.—Brothers Fire Protection has joined the Minnesota Multi Housing Association, the company announced Jan. 10. "MHA is a state-wide, non-profit trade organization that promotes the highest standards in the development, management and maintenance of rental and owner-occupied multi-housing," said Stephen Cieslukowski, president of Brothers Fire Protection, in a prepared statement. He added that the company is “very pleased to be a part of this organization. Since our inception,...

ELK RIVER, Minn.—Brothers Fire Protection is embarking on a “new chapter” for the 17-year-old business: bringing its fire and life safety business from a regional to a national level with a new national accounts division and new manager to lead it. Brothers, which is based here, in July announced the hiring of John Sexton, who has more than 30 years of experience in the fire protection industry, as national accounts manager. Stephen R. Cieslukowski, Brothers president, told Security...

ELK RIVER, Minn.—Brothers Fire Protection announced in April that its fire alarm and life safety team has been granted an Underwriters Laboratory (UL) listing for the company's fire alarm and monitoring services. “We're very excited,” Stephen Cieslukowski, president of the 75-employee company, which is based here, told Security Systems News. “It's a huge milestone for us.” The accreditation is the highest level a fire alarm company can achieve, he said. He praised the...