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Originally Posted by Grizzly Adams
Sounds good if you say it real quick, but you don't want to discourage home owners from calling in an emergency either, because they're afraid of a huge bill. These things can get out of hand and do untold damage before long. Penny wise, dollar dumb. There's a reason we pay taxes and emergency services are part of that.
Grizz
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No one said anything about home owners calling in false alarms.
We are talking about the problems with alarm systems waking up volunteers in the middle of the night when they have jobs to go to in the morning.
We are talking about trying up first responders so they are not available to respond to real emergencies.
If the alarm system is set up correctly the first call is to the home owner.
If needs to be set up so that the contact is not the land line if the system has it tied up with the alarm signal.
The customer needs to know how to silence the alarm and that they need to contact the system provider when they generate an alarm.
Are you willing to pay more tax to that there is enough first response available to handle real and false alarms?
The RCMP are also getting far to many false intrusions alarms and have contacted to county to create a by law so that the the home owner can be held accountable for those.
How much of tax increase are you willing to pay to fix the problem?