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« on: December 02, 2008, 01:06:01 PM »
sat in on a very inlighting community safety night the other day with a SAMFS speaker,
his advise to the community was "if you hear a smoke alarm beeping call 000 regardless"!! weather it is your house the house next door or the guy down the road, but on the other had he said that monitored smoke alarms by private security companys are useless!!
isant that a little stupid???
first: if every one that hears a smoke alarm calls 000 how many 100's of
Bull*%$T calls that mfs/cfs can't charge for is there going to be??
second: mointored alarms are great as it would raise the alarm quicker the waiting for some one to hear th alarm then call , and would also reduce the false alarms as the control rooms atleast try and contact the sites BEFORE calling 000 , and also are aware if there is a problem with the smoke alarms therefore hold off calling 000!
the officer was also putting the blame of false alarming monitored alarms on the security companys that installed the system, how is this fair!! we wont and cant work for free if the client wont pay we want fix it is that simple!!
and on the other side the alarms DO NOT belong to the security system we (security companys) sell the client the system what they do with it after that is up to them if they dont want us to come and fix it (at a cost) then what are we to do not our problem!!!!
i could go on and on and i think jeff would also agree (hi jeff)
but i wont
what do people think,
i think this has been spoken of before but cant find it.