A life safety system interface, comprising: an event panel controller communicatively coupled to one or more life safety system components, wherein the event panel controller is configured to: trigger, in response to information received from the one or more life safety system components, an emergency event; insert the triggered emergency event into a queue of active emergency events; display, via a display of the event panel controller, an event indication corresponding to the triggered emergency event in an event indicator region of an emergency event graphical user interface rendered to at least a portion of the display, wherein the event indication is displayed in one of a plurality of event elements of the event indicator region, wherein the one of the plurality of event elements of the event indicator region displays characteristics of the triggered emergency event which are based on the type of triggered emergency event; and wherein each of the event elements remain visible to a user of the event panel controller; and update, via the display, a plurality of GUI elements of one or more selected queue element dependent regions (414, 420) of the emergency event GUI based on the triggered emergency event, wherein to update the plurality of GUI elements of the one or more selected queue element dependent regions of the emergency event GUI based on the triggered emergency event comprises to update one or more GUI elements of an event information region of the emergency event GUI, and wherein the GUI elements of the event information region include an information field to display detailed information associated with one of the active emergency events corresponding to a selected one of the queue elements associated with that one of the active emergency events and an information field type label to identify a type of information displayed in the information field; wherein the information field type label is configured to display a textual label identifying the type of information being displayed. trigger, in response to information received from the one or more life safety system components, an emergency event; insert the triggered emergency event into a queue of active emergency events; display, via a display of the event panel controller, an event indication corresponding to the triggered emergency event in an event indicator region of an emergency event graphical user interface rendered to at least a portion of the display, wherein the event indication is displayed in one of a plurality of event elements of the event indicator region, wherein the one of the plurality of event elements of the event indicator region displays characteristics of the triggered emergency event which are based on the type of triggered emergency event; and wherein each of the event elements remain visible to a user of the event panel controller; and update, via the display, a plurality of GUI elements of one or more selected queue element dependent regions (414, 420) of the emergency event GUI based on the triggered emergency event, wherein to update the plurality of GUI elements of the one or more selected queue element dependent regions of the emergency event GUI based on the triggered emergency event comprises to update one or more GUI elements of an event information region of the emergency event GUI, and wherein the GUI elements of the event information region include an information field to display detailed information associated with one of the active emergency events corresponding to a selected one of the queue elements associated with that one of the active emergency events and an information field type label to identify a type of information displayed in the information field; wherein the information field type label is configured to display a textual label identifying the type of information being displayed.