What is your dept's procedure for numerous false alarms in one place? i mean the ones you get like 5-6 times a week. do you proceed routine? start charging them? have trucks standby at the station and send pov's? we had this problem at a nursing home once. on about the 6th alarm activation at about 3am, it turned out to be an actual fire. just wanted everyone else's input. thanks.
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We always respond as for any other call. In the past, only with severe cases of f/a 's (2 or 3 a day for a couple of days straight)the business has been told to take the alarm offline and post an employee on fire watch.
[This message has been edited by ntvilleff (edited 06-01-2001).]
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we had this problem at our elementary school here and it hasn't happened for awhile but we talked to them and they have it changed now so that it calls them first before dispatching us, but we are also lucky enough to have a fireman living directly across the street so as soon as he hears it he goes out and does a walk around to confirm nothing is wrong. but we had discussed charging the school district up to $1000 for having them and not fixing it.
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