Exhibit 3(i)


                               CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

                                          OF

                           THE CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

                                          OF

                                    FIRECOM, INC.

                 (Under Section 805 of the Business Corporation Law)


               FIRST:   The name of  the corporation is  FIRECOM, INC. (the
          "Corporation").

               SECOND: The Certificate of Incorporation of  the Corporation
          was filed by the Department of State on March 16, 1978.

               THIRD:  The  Certificate of Incorporation,  as now in  force
          and  effect, is hereby amended to effect the following changes as
          authorized by  Section 801 of  the New York  Business Corporation
          Law:

                    A.   To increase  the number of  shares which  the
               Corporation shall have the authority to issue; and

                    B.  To authorize a new class of common stock.

               FOURTH:     To  accomplish  the  foregoing  amendments,  the
          Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, as now  in force
          and effect, is  hereby amended by deleting Article FOURTH thereof
          and substituting in lieu thereof the following:

                    FOURTH:   A.   Authorized Shares.  The  total  number
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               of  shares of  all  classes of  stock which  the Corporation
               shall have  authority to  issue is 41,000,000  shares, which
               shall  consist of (i) 1,000,000  shares, par value $1.00 per
               share,   of  a  class  designated  "Preferred  Stock,"  (ii)
               30,000,000 shares,  par  value $.01  per share,  of a  class
               designated "Common  Stock" and (iii) 10,000,000  shares, par
               value  $.01 per share, of a class designated "Class A Common
               Stock".

                         B.   Preferred   Stock.  Shares of the Preferred
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               Stock  may be  issued from  time to  time in series  and the
               Board of Directors of  the Corporation is hereby authorized,
               subject to the limitations provided by law, to establish and
               designate series of the  Preferred Stock, to fix the  number
               of  shares   constituting  each  series,  and   to  fix  the
               designations   and  the  relative  rights,  preferences  and
               limitations of the shares of each series and  the variations
               and  the relative  rights,  preferences  and limitations  as
               between  series,  and  to  increase  the  number  of  shares
               constituting each  series.   The authority  of the  Board of
               Directors  of the  Corporation with  respect to  each series
               shall include but shall  not be limited to the  authority to
               determine the following:

                         I.   The designation of such series.

                         II.  The    number   of    shares   initially
               constituting such series.

                         III.      The  increase  of   the  number  of
               shares constituting such series  theretofore fixed.

                         IV.  The rate or rates and the times at which
               dividends on the shares  of such series shall  be paid,
               and whether or not  such dividends shall be cumulative,
               and, if such dividends shall be cumulative, the date or
               dates  from and  after  which  they  shall  accumulate;
               provided, however, that if the stated dividends are not
               paid in full, the shares of all series of the Preferred
               Stock shall share ratably  in the payment of dividends,
               including accumulations, if any, in accordance with the
               sums  which would  be  payable on  such  shares if  all
               dividends were declared and paid in full.

                         V.   Whether or not the shares of such series
               shall  be  redeemable, and,  if  such  shares shall  be
               redeemable,   the   terms   and  conditions   of   such
               redemption, including  but not  limited to the  date or
               dates  upon  or  after   which  such  shares  shall  be
               redeemable  and the  amount  per share  which shall  be
               payable  upon such  redemption,  which amount  may vary
               under  different conditions and at different redemption
               dates.

                         VI.  The amount payable on the shares of such
               series  in the  event of  the voluntary  or involuntary
               liquidation,  dissolution   or   winding  up   of   the
               Corporation;  provided,  however, that  the  holders of
               such  shares shall be entitled  to be paid,  or to have
               set apart  for payment, not  less than $1.00  per share
               before the holders of shares of the Common Stock or the
               holders  of any other class of  stock ranking junior to
               the Preferred  Stock as to rights  on liquidation shall
               be entitled to be paid any amount or to have any amount
               set apart for payment;  provided, further, that, if the
               amounts payable  on liquidation  are not paid  in full,
               the shares  of all series of the  Preferred Stock shall
               share ratably in any  distribution of assets other than
               by way of  dividends in accordance with  the sums which
               would  be  payable in  such  distribution  if all  sums
               payable  were  discharged  in  full.    A  liquidation,
               dissolution or  winding up of the  Corporation, as such
               terms  are  used in  this  Paragraph VI,  shall  not be
               deemed  to   be  occasioned   by  or  to   include  any
               consolidation or merger of the Corporation with or into
               any other corporation or  corporations or a sale, lease
               or conveyance of all or a part of its assets.

                         VII.      Whether or  not the shares of  such
               series  shall have  voting rights,  in addition  to the
               voting  rights provided  by  law, and,  if such  shares
               shall have such voting rights, the terms and conditions
               thereof, including but not limited  to the right of the
               holders of such shares to vote as separate class either
               alone  or with  the holders  of shares  of one  or more
               other series of Preferred  Stock and the right to  have
               more than one vote per share.

                         VIII.     Whether or not a sinking fund shall
               be  provided for the  redemption of the  shares of such
               series, and, if  such a sinking fund shall be provided,
               the terms and conditions thereof.

                         IX.  Whether or not a purchase fund  shall be
               provided  for the shares of such series, and, if such a
               purchase  fund  shall   be  provided,  the   terms  and
               conditions thereof.

                         X.   Whether or not the shares of such series
               shall have  conversion privileges, and, if  such shares
               shall  have   conversion  privileges,  the   terms  and
               conditions of conversion, including  but not limited to
               any provision for the adjustment of the conversion rate
               or the conversion price.

                         XI.  Any  other relative  rights, preferences
               and limitations.


                         C.   Common Stock.  Any and all shares of
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               Common  Stock   and  Class   A  Common   Stock  constituting
               authorized  but  unissued  shares  may be  issued  for  such
               consideration, not less than the par value thereof, as shall
               be fixed  from time to time  by the Board of  Directors. The
               powers, preferences, limitations and relative  rights of the
               Common  Stock and  the  Class A  Common  Stock shall  be  as
               follows:

                              1.   VOTING.  Except as may otherwise be
               required by law or except as may be expressly  provided
               for  herein, with  respect  to all  matters upon  which
               shareholders  are  entitled   to  vote   or  to   which
               shareholders are  entitled to give consent, the holders
               of  the  outstanding shares  of  Common  Stock and  the
               holders  of the  outstanding shares  of Class  A Common
               Stock shall vote  together as a single class, and every
               holder of an outstanding share of Common Stock shall be
               entitled to cast thereon  one (1) vote in person  or by
               proxy for each  share of Common  Stock standing in  his
               name on the stock  transfer records of the Corporation,
               and every  holder of  an outstanding  share of  Class A
               Common Stock  shall be entitled to  cast thereon thirty
               (30)  votes in  person or  by proxy  for each  share of
               Class  A Common Stock standing in his name on the stock
               transfer records of the Corporation.

                              2.   DIVIDENDS AND DISTRIBUTIONS.

                              (a)  DIVIDENDS.  Holders of Common Stock
               and Class  A Common  Stock shall  be entitled  to share
               ratably  in  all such  dividends,  payable  in cash  or
               otherwise,  as may be declared thereon  by the Board of
               Directors from time to  time out of assets or  funds of
               the  Corporation legally available therefor except that
               in the case of dividends or other distributions payable
               in  stock of  the Corporation,  including distributions
               pursuant to  stock split-ups or  divisions, which occur
               after the  initial distribution  of the Class  A Common
               Stock to holders of Common Stock, only shares of Common
               Stock shall  be distributed with respect  to the Common
               Stock, and only shares of Class A Common Stock shall be
               distributed with respect to the Class A Common Stock.

                              (b)  DISTRIBUTIONS.   In the  event  the
               Corporation  shall  be  liquidated  (either  partial or
               complete), dissolved or  wound up, whether  voluntarily
               or involuntarily,  the holders of the  Common Stock and
               the Class  A Common  Stock shall  be entitled  to share
               ratably, as a single class, in the remaining net assets
               of the  Corporation; that is,  an equal  amount of  net
               assets for  each  share of  Common  Stock and  Class  A
               Common Stock.

                              (c)  MERGER OR  CONSOLIDATION.   In  the
               event of  a merger or consolidation  of the Corporation
               with  or  into  another   entity  whether  or  not  the
               Corporation is  the surviving  entity), the  holders of
               Common Stock and Class A Common Stock shall be entitled
               to  receive the  same per  share consideration  in such
               merger or consolidation.

                              3.   RESTRICTIONS  ON  TRANSFER  OF  THE
               CLASS A COMMON STOCK.

                              (a)  No beneficial owner (as hereinafter
               defined) of shares of Class A Common Stock (hereinafter
               referred to  as a "Class A  Shareholder") may transfer,
               and the Corporation shall not register the transfer of,
               shares  of  Class  A  Common  Stock  of  such  Class  A
               Shareholder,   whether   by  sale,   assignment,  gift,
               bequest,   appointment  or   otherwise,  except   to  a
               Permitted Transferee  of  such Class  A Shareholder.  A
               "Permitted  Transferee"  shall be  defined  as  (i) the
               Class  A Shareholder;  (ii) the  spouse of the  Class A
               Shareholder; (iii) any parent and any lineal descendant
               (including  any adopted  child)  of any  parent of  the
               Class  A Shareholder  or of  the Class  A Shareholder's
               spouse; (iv) any trustee, guardian or custodian for, or
               any    executor,    administrator   or    other   legal
               representative of  the estate of, any  of the foregoing
               Permitted  Transferees; (v)  the  trustee  of  a  trust
               (including a voting trust) principally for  the benefit
               of  such Class A Shareholder  and/or any of  his or her
               Permitted Transferees; (vi) the beneficiary of a trust,
               individual retirement account or  other similar Class A
               Shareholder; and (vii)  any corporation, partnership or
               other entity if a  majority of the beneficial ownership
               thereof is  held by the Class A  Shareholder and/or any
               of  his or  her Permitted  Transferees.   If a  Class A
               Shareholder and all of his or her Permitted Transferees
               cease, for  whatever reason, to hold a  majority of the
               beneficial ownership of any corporation, partnership or
               other entity  specified in clause (vi)  above, then any
               and all shares  of Class  A Common Stock  held by  such
               corporation,   partnership   or   other  entity   shall
               automatically, without further deed  or action by or on
               behalf of any party, be deemed to have been transferred
               to other  than a  Permitted Transferee with  the result
               that such shares shall be deemed to have been converted
               into a like number of shares of Common Stock. 

                              (b)  Notwithstanding  anything   to  the
               contrary set forth herein,  any Class A Shareholder may
               pledge  his shares of Class A Common Stock to a pledgee
               pursuant  to  a  bona fide  pledge  of  such shares  as
               collateral  security  for   indebtedness  due  to   the
               pledgee,   provided  that  such  shares  shall  not  be
               transferred to or registered in the name of the pledgee
               and  shall remain  subject  to the  provisions of  this
               Paragraph 3.  In the event  of foreclosure, realization
               or other  similar action  by the pledgee,  such pledged
               shares of Class A Common Stock  may only be transferred
               to a  Permitted Transferee of the  pledgor or converted
               into shares of Common Stock, as the pledgee may elect.

                              (c)  Any purported transfer of shares of
               Class A  Common Stock not permitted  hereunder shall be
               void  and of  no effect.   Any purported  transferee of
               shares  of  Class  A   Common  Stock  purported  to  be
               transferred in violation of this Paragraph 3 shall have
               no rights as  a shareholder of  the Corporation and  no
               other   rights  against,  or   with  respect   to,  the
               Corporation,  except the  right  to  receive shares  of
               Common  Stock upon the conversion  of his or her shares
               of Class  A Common Stock  into shares of  Common Stock.
               The  Corporation  and  its  transfer agent  may,  as  a
               condition  to the  transfer  or the  registration of  a
               transfer  of shares  of  Class  A  Common  Stock  to  a
               purported Permitted Transferee, require  the furnishing
               of  such  affidavits  or   other  proof  as  they  deem
               necessary  to  establish  that  such  transferee  is  a
               Permitted Transferee.

                              (d)  The Corporation shall  note on  the
               certificates  for shares  of Class  A Common  Stock the
               restrictions on transfer  and registration of  transfer
               imposed by this Paragraph 3.

                              (e)  Shares  of  Class  A  Common  Stock
               shall be  registered in  the name(s) of  the beneficial
               owner(s)  thereof  (as  herein  defined)   and  not  in
               "street"   or   "nominee"  names;   provided,  however,
               certificates  representing  shares  of Class  A  Common
               Stock  issued in  the initial  distribution  thereof to
               holders of the issued  and outstanding Common Stock may
               be  registered  in  the  same name  and  manner  as the
               certificates  representing the  shares of  Common Stock
               with respect  to which  the shares  of Class  A  Common
               Stock are  issued. Any shares  of Class A  Common Stock
               registered  in  "street"  or  "nominee"  name   may  be
               transferred to  the beneficial owner of  such shares on
               the  record  date for  such initial  distribution, upon
               proof satisfactory to the  Corporation and the Transfer
               Agent that such person was in fact the beneficial owner
               of such shares on such record date.

                              (f)  For the purpose  of this  Paragraph
               3,  the term  "beneficial  owner(s)" of  any shares  of
               Class A  Common Stock  shall mean a  person or  persons
               who, or  entity or  entities which,  have or share  the
               power, either  singly or jointly, to  direct the voting
               or  disposition of  such shares;  for the  avoidance of
               doubt  the  beneficiary  of  an  individual  retirement
               account ("IRA") shall be deemed the beneficial owner of
               any shares held by such IRA.

                              4.   CONVERSION OF  THE CLASS  A  COMMON
               STOCK.

                              (a)   Each share of Class A Common Stock
               may at  any time or from time to time, at the option of
               the record  holder thereof,  be converted into  one (1)
               fully paid  and  nonassessable share  of Common  Stock.
               Such  conversion  right  shall  be   exercised  by  the
               surrender of the certificate representing such share of
               Class A Common Stock to be converted to the Corporation
               at  any  time  during  normal  business  hours  at  the
               principal executive offices of the Corporation (to  the
               attention of  the Secretary of the  Corporation), or if
               an agent for the registration or transfer  of shares of
               Class A Common Stock is then duly appointed and  acting
               (said agent being referred to in this Article IV as the
               "Transfer Agent"),  then at the office  of the Transfer
               Agent, accompanied by a  written notice of the election
               by the holder thereof to convert and (if so required by
               the Corporation  or the Transfer Agent)  by instruments
               of  transfer, in  form satisfactory to  the Corporation
               and to the Transfer Agent, duly executed by such holder
               or  his duly  authorized  attorney,  and  transfer  tax
               stamps  or  funds  therefor,  if  required pursuant  to
               Paragraph 4(e) below.

                              (b)  As  promptly  as practicable  after
               the   surrender  for   conversion   of  a   certificate
               representing  shares of  Class  A Common  Stock in  the
               manner  provided  in  Paragraph  4(a)  above,  and  the
               payment  in   cash  of  any  amount   required  by  the
               provisions  of  Paragraph  4(e),  the  Corporation will
               deliver or cause to  be delivered at the office  of the
               Transfer Agent  to, or upon  the written order  of, the
               holder   of   such   certificate,   a   certificate  or
               certificates representing the number of  full shares of
               Common Stock issuable upon  such conversion, issued  in
               such name or  names as  such holder may  direct.   Such
               conversion   shall  be   deemed  to   have   been  made
               immediately prior to the close  of business on the date
               of the surrender of the certificate representing shares
               of Class A Common  Stock, and all rights of  the holder
               of  such shares as such holder shall cease at such time
               and  the person or persons  in whose name  or names the
               certificate  or certificates representing the shares of
               Common  Stock are to be issued shall be treated for all
               purposes as having become  the record holder or holders
               of such shares  of Common Stock at such time; provided,
               however,  that  in the  event  any  such surrender  and
               payment  are made on  any date when  the stock transfer
               records of the Corporation  shall be closed, the person
               or persons  in whose name  or names the  certificate or
               certificates representing shares of Common Stock are to
               be  issued will  become  the record  holder or  holders
               thereof for all purposes immediately prior to the close
               of  business on the  next succeeding day  on which such
               stock transfer records are open.

                              (c)  No   adjustments   in  respect   of
               dividends or other distributions shall be made upon the
               conversion  of  any  share  of Class  A  Common  Stock;
               provided, however,  that if a share  shall be converted
               subsequent to  the record  date for  the payment  of  a
               dividend  or other  distribution on  shares of  Class A
               Common Stock but prior  to such payment, the registered
               holder of such share  at the close of business  on such
               record date  shall be entitled to  receive the dividend
               or other distribution payable on such share on the date
               set for payment of  such dividend or other distribution
               notwithstanding   the   conversion   thereof   or   the
               Corporation's  default in  payment of  the dividend  or
               distribution due on such date.

                              (d)  The  Corporation covenants  that it
               will at  all times  reserve and keep  available, solely
               for  the purpose  of  issuance upon  conversion of  the
               outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock, such number
               of shares of Common Stock as shall be issuable upon the
               conversion  of all  such outstanding  shares; provided,
               that  nothing  contained herein  shall be  construed to
               preclude   the   Corporation   from    satisfying   its
               obligations   in  respect  of  the  conversion  of  the
               outstanding shares of Class  A Common Stock by delivery
               of  purchased shares of Common  Stock which are held in
               the  treasury  of  the  Corporation.   The  Corporation
               covenants that  if any shares of  Common Stock required
               to  be  reserved for  purposes of  conversion hereunder
               require   registration   with   or  approval   of   any
               governmental authority under  any federal or  state law
               before such shares of  Common Stock may be  issued upon
               conversion, the Corporation will  cause such shares  to
               be duly  registered or  approved, as the  case may  be.
               The  Corporation will  endeavor to  list the  shares of
               Common Stock  required to be  delivered upon conversion
               prior to  such delivery  upon each  national securities
               exchange  or automated  quotation system, if  any, upon
               which  the outstanding  Common Stock  is listed  at the
               time of such delivery.   The Corporation covenants that
               all shares of Common  Stock which shall be  issued upon
               conversion of the shares of Class A Common  Stock will,
               upon  issue, be  fully paid  and nonassessable  and not
               subject to any preemptive rights.

                              (e)  The  issuance  of certificates  for
               shares  of Common  Stock upon  conversion of  shares of
               Class A Common Stock  shall be made without charge  for
               any  stamp or  other  similar tax  in  respect of  such
               issuance.  However, if  any such  certificate is  to be
               issued in a name  other than that of the  record holder
               of  the  share  or  shares  of  Class  A  Common  Stock
               converted,  the  person   or  persons  requesting   the
               issuance  thereof  shall  pay to  the  Corporation  the
               amount  of any tax which  may be payable  in respect of
               any  transfer  involved  in   such  issuance  or  shall
               establish to the  satisfaction of the  Corporation that
               such tax has been paid.

                              (f)  The outstanding shares  of Class  A
               Common  Stock shall  be deemed  without further  act on
               anyone's  part  to  be  immediately  and  automatically
               converted  into  shares  of  Common  Stock,  and  stock
               certificates  formerly representing  outstanding shares
               of Class A Common  Stock shall thereupon and thereafter
               be  deemed to  represent  a like  number  of shares  of
               Common  Stock if  and  when the  number  of issued  and
               outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock is less than
               one  percent (1%) of the aggregate  number of shares of
               Common Stock and Class A Common Stock then outstanding.

                              5.   SUBSEQUENT  ISSUANCES  OF  CLASS  A
               COMMON STOCK.   Following  the initial distribution  of
               the Class A Common  Stock to the holders of  the issued
               and outstanding  Common Stock  of the  Corporation, the
               Board of Directors may only issue shares of the Class A
               Common  Stock   in  the  form  of   a  distribution  or
               distributions  pursuant  to  a  stock  dividend  on  or
               split-up  of the shares of the Class A Common Stock and
               only  to  the then  record  holders of  the  issued and
               outstanding  shares  of the  Class  A  Common Stock  in
               conjunction with  and  in the  same  ratio as  a  stock
               dividend  on or  split-up of the  shares of  the Common
               Stock.

                              6.   PREEMPTIVE   RIGHTS  DENIED.     No
               holder  of  shares  of  any  class  of  stock   of  the
               Corporation  shall  possess  any  preemptive  right  to
               acquire  additional shares  of  any  class or  treasury
               shares  of  the  Corporation.  or  obligations  of  the
               Corporation  convertible into such  shares. whether now
               or hereafter authorized.


                    FIFTH:  The foregoing amendments  of the Certificate of
          Incorporation of the Corporation as herein provided for were duly
          authorized  by the  vote  of the  holders of  a  majority of  all
          outstanding  shares  entitled to  vote  thereon at  a  meeting of
          shareholders.


                    IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have subscribed this document on
          the  date set  forth  below  and  do  hereby  affirm,  under  the
          penalties of  perjury, that the statements  contained herein have
          been examined by us and are true and correct.


          Date: November 18, 1997


                                           /s/ Paul Mendez  
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                                        Paul Mendez, Chairman of the Board



                                           /s/ Gregory Katz   
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                                        Gregory Katz, Secretary