When your alarm sounds after hours, we meet the FDNY at your door.
When your commercial building’s fire alarm sounds during our night and weekend coverage, we send a trained responder with your keys. We open the building and operate its elevators for the Fire Department. Fire alarms are the core of what we do. We also respond to other after-hours emergencies, such as a water leak, when someone needs your building opened.
- Under 5 min on average, from alarm to arrival
- Since 1956 responding in New York
- 32BJ SEIU Local 32BJ responders
We don’t repair elevators. “Elevator in Readiness” is an NYC code requirement: a trained operator who runs your working elevators for the Fire Department. We provide that operator during our coverage hours.
Nights and weekends.
80 hours a week.
What QRS is.
And what it isn’t.
The word “elevator” in our service name sends people the wrong way. Here is the plain version.
- The people who come to your building when an alarm sounds after hours.
- Trained to operate your working elevators for the Fire Department.
- Holders of your keys, your building playbook and your contact list.
- Your “Elevator in Readiness” coverage on nights and weekends.
- An elevator repair company. We don’t install, service or maintain elevators. Your elevator contractor does.
- An alarm monitoring company. Your alarm monitoring company notifies QRS. We go to the building.
- A guard stationed in your lobby. We dispatch from Midtown with your keys. Average arrival is under 5 minutes.
What happens
when the alarm sounds.
We bring your keys, knowledge of your building, and a trained operator to help the Fire Department get where it needs to go.
Nights and weekends,
when your staff is off.
Night and weekend response for commercial buildings in Midtown Manhattan. A team ready to come to you when your building staff have gone home. Share your address so we can confirm service availability for your property.
From each evening into the following morning.
→ Monday 7:00 am
Saturday night, all day Sunday, into Monday morning.
When a major holiday falls on a weekday, we cover the whole day.
Staffing those 80 hours
yourself costs far more.
QRS covers those hours for less than $4 an hour. The figures below compare that with putting your own employees on the same nights and weekends, to meet the same code requirement.
more per year than QRS if you hire your own employees at 32BJ rates and benefits.
more per year than QRS even at minimum wage with no benefits.
From QRS’s own cost comparison.
Ask for a quote and a comparison for your building
We learn your building
before the first alarm.
Before the first call, we build a response playbook around your property: keys, access points, elevator locations and the people to contact.
Then we practice. So the first alarm isn’t our first visit.
Find out what coverage costs
for your building.
Share your building’s address. We’ll come back with coverage and cost.