Anyone link a fire alarm to the fire department WITHOUT going through a 3rd party?
 

Rather not pay the $25 a month for 'monitoring' of my house.

Thanks,

Dean

Check misc.consumers.house group. There is a current thread there
about monitoring, including some links to places that do it for $10 a
mth.

"dean" wrote in message
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Rather not pay the $25 a month for 'monitoring' of my house.

Thanks,

Dean


They used to have auto dialers that you could buy that dialed the fire dept,
and played a recorded message but they are outlawed in many areas due to the
false alarms.
Even if not outright illegal many fire departments just ignore the recorded
messages, or come out and fine you for the call if it's false.

If you have family, or a neighbor the machine can call them and then they
can phone the call in.
But if it's a false alarm, .....they can be fined.

Flashing lights and sirens on your house may get a neighbor to pick up a
phone, but again too many false alarms, and even this gets ignored.

(ever heard a car alarm go off when the owner forgets to turn it off and
opens a door? look and see how many people even care)


The monitoring may be a bargain in comparison to possible fines, and worth
the sleep you may lose if you don't have it


AMUN

"dean" wrote in message
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Rather not pay the $25 a month for 'monitoring' of my house.

We have our factory and warehouse direct, but I don't know of any
residential setups like that today. Check with your local fire department
first. They will be the one deciding what you can and cannot do.

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wrote:

Rather not pay the $25 a month for 'monitoring' of my house.

Two of my neighbors are firefighters and beyond being friends with them
I have way too much respect for people who choose to save lives as
their vocation to mickey mouse any kind of communication or emergency
call system.

Call your fire department and ask them how to connect to them
legitimately. It may well be possible, but asking on a world-wide
usenet forum is NOT the way to find out. Your LOCAL fire department is
going to comprise your response team. Talk to them.

Remember. These are the people running INTO the burning building you're
running OUT OF. Deal with them with respect and awe.

djb

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"dean" wrote in message
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Rather not pay the $25 a month for 'monitoring' of my house.

Illegal in most localities.

Check out www.alarmrelay.com -- $9/month full monitoring. I'm probably
going to switch.

-Tim

Dave Balderstone wrote:

In article . com, dean
wrote:


Rather not pay the $25 a month for 'monitoring' of my house.



Two of my neighbors are firefighters and beyond being friends with them
I have way too much respect for people who choose to save lives as
their vocation to mickey mouse any kind of communication or emergency
call system.

Call your fire department and ask them how to connect to them
legitimately. It may well be possible, but asking on a world-wide
usenet forum is NOT the way to find out. Your LOCAL fire department is
going to comprise your response team. Talk to them.

Remember. These are the people running INTO the burning building you're
running OUT OF. Deal with them with respect and awe.

djb


Respect yes. Awe NO!
--
Master Fire Fighter / Rescuer Thomas D. Horne
Takoma Park Volunteer Fire Department a cooperating agency of the
Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service, Maryland, USA

We aren't no thin red heroes. Yet we aren't no blackguards to.
Just working men and women most remarkable like you.

Remember. These are the people running INTO the burning building you're
running OUT OF. Deal with them with respect and awe.


Yeah, I keep wondering if there's anything like a DNR order you
can put on a house, just tell the fire department to let the
damn thing burn. I can't do that for mine, because the
building is only 11 feet from the next house, and it would fall over
and squish it, but if I had decent clearance, that would be
the right solution for my house...

Goedjn wrote:
Remember. These are the people running INTO the burning building you're
running OUT OF. Deal with them with respect and awe.



Yeah, I keep wondering if there's anything like a DNR order you
can put on a house, just tell the fire department to let the
damn thing burn. I can't do that for mine, because the
building is only 11 feet from the next house, and it would fall over
and squish it, but if I had decent clearance, that would be
the right solution for my house...



Believe me! The FD knows when a building isn't worth the risk of
saving. If everyone is out, they will do what is safest for them.

why not just have it dial your cell phone. As long as you play the
inbetween
guy then there is no charge :)

wrote in message
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why not just have it dial your cell phone. As long as you play the
inbetween
guy then there is no charge :)

Sure, considering the reliability of cell phones when you travel that would
work perfectly. How'd you like to find a "Missed call" when you leave a 3
hour meeting?

Well there ARE drawbacks, but what's the basic point? You just
want to know what's going on at home.

If you REALLY spend the cash, you can get a webbased security system.

you can view your home over the internet and get updates sent to you
all sorts of different ways... Email, pages etc.

That might not be a bad idea. I'm only really interested in the fire
part, not the burglary side. I can afford to be burgled, but having the
house burn down because of an electrical fault or a mouse chewing
wires, that would be a real downer.

Anyway, I work 5 minutes away from my house, so if it is a burglar,
they better be ****ing quick about it before I turn up!

Thanks!

Dean