About the company
Moro Cojo Alarms & Electric, and the experience behind the license.
Moro Cojo Alarms & Electric works on commercial fire alarm systems across California's Central Coast. Service and repair first, then inspection and testing, monitoring, and installation. The work happens at your building.
Free estimates. California C-10 Electrical Contractor, CSLB #1088212.
What the company does
Fire alarm systems first, in the order buildings need them.
- Service and repair
- A panel in trouble, a device that failed its test, a system nobody has opened in years. We service and repair systems installed by other contractors. What a particular panel allows can depend on manufacturer software, manufacturer training and access to the system, so tell us the panel make and what the display says, and you get a plain answer about what can be done.
- Inspection and testing
- Periodic inspection and testing of existing fire alarm systems, and the written records that go with them.
- Monitoring
- Arranged through Moro Cojo. We do the programming. A third-party central monitoring station receives the fire alarm signals and contacts us and the people you designate.
- Installation
- Commercial fire alarm installation for new buildings, tenant improvements, and replacements of systems that have reached the end of their working life.
- Electrical work
- Panels, circuits, tenant-improvement power and home electrical work, under the same C-10 license. Secondary to the fire alarm work, and it stays that way.
That order is deliberate. Service work is what the company is built to take on. New construction is real work and a real capability, and it is not the lead offer.
Background
The license came after 20 years in fire alarm and life safety.
Allen Lorscheider had 20 years of fire alarm and life-safety experience before Moro Cojo Alarms & Electric existed, on work in Monterey County and the counties around it.
Customers he had worked for encouraged him to get his own license. He did, in 2022, and the company was founded in Castroville that year. That is the whole origin of it. The company started from a body of work, not from a business plan.
Years in the field decide what a contractor notices. Which trouble signal is a battery and which is a wiring fault. Which questions to ask on the phone so the visit is useful. What an older system does once you start testing it, and what a building needs to have on paper afterwards. None of that is printed on a certificate, and it is the reason the first question here is usually about your panel and what its display is showing.
The same experience decided how the company buys equipment. We use non-proprietary equipment, which gives you more flexibility in who can service the system later, and when Moro Cojo installs or replaces a system, that is the equipment we use. It does not mean anyone can work on the system: NFPA 72 sets qualification requirements, California has its own licensing and electrician certification rules, every manufacturer controls its own software and training, and equipment still has to be listed. It means the choice made at bid time leaves an owner more room later.How non-proprietary systems work.
Credentials
What is held, and who holds it.
A contractor license belongs to the company. A certification belongs to a person. They are different things, so they are listed separately.
- License
- California C-10 Electrical Contractor, CSLB #1088212. The company license, current and active, issued in 2022.
- NICET
- NICET Level II, Inspection and Testing of Fire Alarm Systems. Held by Allen Lorscheider personally. The program covers periodic inspection and testing of existing systems, which is why it belongs beside that work rather than beside installation.
- Safety
- OSHA Outreach Training, completed by Allen Lorscheider. Outreach training is a course, not a certification, and we do not call it one.
- Panels
- Manufacturer training on multiple fire alarm panel platforms. Ask which panels we service. We do not print brand names we cannot put a certificate behind.
- Experience
- 20 years of fire alarm and life-safety experience, held by Allen Lorscheider personally. The company itself was founded in 2022.
Our fire alarm work is performed under our California C-10 Electrical Contractor license, CSLB #1088212. We do not hold a C-16 Fire Protection license and do not install or service sprinklers.
How the work runs
A free estimate first, written down before anything starts.
- Estimates
- Free project estimates. For most work we visit the building or review your drawings first, then send a written estimate before work starts.
- Records
- A written report of what was tested and any deficiency found, so the building has something to show when its records are asked for.
- Who you deal with
- Direct, accountable communication throughout the job, from the first site visit to the final report.
- Availability
- After-hours service available. Ask about availability for your site when you call. There is no 24-hour dispatch and no emergency response service here; for an active fire or an unsafe condition, call 911.
Where the work happens
A service-area business, working across the Central Coast.
Moro Cojo Alarms & Electric is based in Castroville and works at the customer's site. There is no showroom and no counter to visit. We cover Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties, plus southern Santa Clara County, which means the southern part of Santa Clara County and not the whole of it.
Service areas, county by county, with the fire authority that covers each area.
Free estimate
Tell us about the building, and what it needs.
Send the details and we will come back with a written estimate. No charge, and no obligation to go ahead.
Prefer to talk?
(831) 455-5858Call between 8am and 6pm. After-hours service available. Ask about availability for your site when you call.