Re: Installing Medical alert systems real pain to firefighters

[Frank Olson <Use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nick Markowitz wrote:
> Several times this past month  a customer of mine who has Multiple Building
> Apartment Complexes have had to chase there tails along with the Fire Depts.
> responding becuse an IDIOT Medical Alert Installer has put in a smoke along
> with the Medical Alert System in an elderly residents apartment , and
> Central Station did not give clear info to 911 center. As to what apartment
> was having alarm and Firefighters thought they were responding to a building
> Fire Alarm. To make matters worse one of there apartments had a window
> broken when Medics responded and could not gain entry only to find no
> medical condition no one home and no medical alert system it had been
> disconnected by a previous tennant  who never let Central Station know that
> they moved.
> My clients have now sent letters to all tennants that they are to be
> notified if a system has been installed and there  Maintenance Emergency
> Number is to be notified by Central Station as well as 911 so problems can
> be eliminated or AHJ is going to start fines .
> It apears who ever has been installing these systems is some one who is just
> a salesman with no training and has been causing headeaches all over Western
> Pa. by not giving clear information. Needless to say AHJ's are pissed and
> looking for them.
>


Good luck finding him.  He's in Brazil.