This work considers the problem of quickest detection with $N$ distributed sensors
that receive continuous sequential observations from the environment. These sensors
employ cumulative sum (CUSUM) strategies and communicate to a central fusion center
by one shot schemes. One shot schemes are schemes in which the sensors communicate
with the fusion center only once, after which they must signal a detection. The
communication is clearly asynchronous and the case is considered in which the fusion
center employs a minimal strategy, which means that it declares an alarm when the
first communication takes place. It is assumed that the observations received at the
sensors are independent and that the time points at which the appearance of a signal
can take place are different. It is shown that there is no loss of performance of
one shot schemes as compared to the centralized case in an extended Lorden min-max
sense, since the minimum of N CUSUMs is asymptotically optimal as the mean time
between false alarms increases without bound.