Tag: LIfe Safety Designs
For school shootings, first response should be ECS
January 16, 2013Tess Nacelewicz
YARMOUTH, Maine—The nation's schools need to be armed—with emergency communication systems.That's the message from fire alarm dealers interviewed by Security Systems News after a gunman massacred 20 students and six staff at a Connecticut elementary school late in 2012.And to best protect students and staff, the dealers told SSN, schools also need to have an action plan that addresses such important questions as: Who are the true first responders in school emergencies?“When we look...
Life Safety Designs campus safety partner
February 24, 2011Tess Nacelewicz
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—Life Safety Designs recently won a contract to provide a campus mass notification system for the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg.
That university is now the third campus in the Florida state university system for which Life Safety Designs is the mass notification provider, according to J.R. Sykes, head of contract sales & inspections for Life Safety Designs, which is based here and does about 60 percent of its business designing, installing and servicing fire...