Wednesday, May 12, 1999
Alarms could link to city network
BY DAVID ECK
Enquirer Contributor
LEBANON — The city's new telecommunications system could pave the way for Lebanon to get into the emergency-alarm business, while enhancing residents' safety.
Fire Chief Michael Hanni gan is floating a plan to hook local residential and business fire alarms into the city's telecommunications network.
But the proposal, which would require more employees and an extensive upgrade of the city's communications center, carries a $681,000 price tag, excluding installation of the systems in the individual properties.
Council's safety committee is expected to discuss the plan, and its cost, at a meet ing tonight.
Acting City Manager Ed Patterson said the “Safe City” alarm system would be a benefit to residents.
The communications center would need to be expand ed and two dispatchers would need to be on duty at all times, Chief Hannigan wrote in a presentation to council. The city also would have to install additional equipment in the center and get new software.
To handle more fire calls generated by the system, Chief Hannigan is proposing to schedule a crew in the fire station 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The crew would respond to fire calls and could call for volunteer firefighters if the situation warrants, the chief wrote.
Council members also are reviewing the possibility of using the telecommunications network for carrying an in-home weather-warning system.
The technology is in place to handle the proposed fire alarm system, said James Baldwin, Lebanon's deputy director of communications.
“There are a lot of things we can do on the network,” he said. “That would really be one of the easiest things we can do from a technological standpoint. The philosophy behind this from day one was to make it so that it has value for our residents.”
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