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In an emergency, 9-11 may actually
call you – that is, if you live in Franklin County.
The county’s deputy emergency
services director, Rick Provost, said a new system allowing
so-called “Reverse 9-11” in which his agency can notify
firefighters, ambulance squads and even individual households of
threats has been online for the past six weeks.
"It's a mass
notification tone to alert the public," Provost told the Plattsburgh
Press-Republican.
The 9-11 database pinpoints which
surrounding homes and dispatchers would call them and know which
neighbors to alert. The system can be used as broad or as narrow as
the situation requires, from alerting a community of a flood warning
to a residential street of a boil water order, he said.
The system
– which costs the county $13,000 annually – had not yet been used,
the newspaper reported Sunday.
Reverse
9-11 services are not yet available in neighboring Clinton or Essex
counties.
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