[Scan-DC] System to provide firefighters quick access could be required in new M ineral businesses

[Blair Thompson]

>From the Cumberland, Maryland, newspaper. I didn't know that how those boxes worked. I thought that the FD had an actual key that opened those boxes, and that they would then used the key stored inside to open the door. This says that a signal opens the box. I'm always the last to know.

http://www.times-news.com/local/x493473905/System-to-provide-firefighters-quick-access-could-be-required-in-new-Mineral-businesses

Elaine Blaisdell
Cumberland Times-News The Cumberland Times-News Wed Apr 23, 2014, 11:44 PM EDT 

KEYSER, W.Va. — The Mineral County Commission agreed to look into the possibility of implementing an ordinance that would require new commercial businesses to install a KNOX-BOX Rapid Entry System.

“We think it would be a good idea; we just haven’t come up with how to implement it and fund it,” said Janice LaRue, commission president, during Tuesday’s public meeting.

The KNOX system would allow firefighters to gain access to properties electronically with one main master key. Chad Lindsay, president of the Mineral County Firefighter Association, had previously approached the commission about the idea.

“In each of the rigs we will put a box in there that will transmit a signal through our engine into that box on the wall and will unlock that box so we can get the keys out,” said Lindsay. “Really what it does is take the liability off of us. I don’t want keys to every business in town.”

The box should work off the VHF radio system that the Mineral County 911 Center has, according to Lindsay. If for some reason the VHF system is down, it can be overridden and the code to get into the box could be reset.

The boxes could also be beneficial to homeowners if a fire occurred while they weren’t home because the fire department could unlock the box rather than destroy a door, Lindsay said.
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