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Eight Escambia Fire Stations Need Fire Alarms For $150K
December 12, 2024
Even fire stations need fire alarms.
Tonight, the Escambia County Commission is set to consider the purchase of fire alarms for eight county fire stations at a cost of $150,402.66. If approved, the purchase from Florida, and Security Engineering, Inc. will include hardware and installation of new alarm monitoring equipment.
The fire alarms will be for the following stations:
- Station 4- Cantonment
- Station 5 – Century
- Station 9- McDavid
- Station 15 -Walnut Hill
- Station 7 – Ferry Pass
- Station 3 – Brent
- Station 13 – Pensacola Beach
- Station 16 – Warrington
Escambia County described the existing fire alarms at those stations as “antiquated”.
“The current hardware is incompatible with the recently installed cell dialer system, which transmits the alarms to the Escambia County Communication Center,” according to county documents. “The upgrades are necessary for the safety of personnel and visitors and reduce property value loss in the event of an emergency”
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3 Responses to “Eight Escambia Fire Stations Need Fire Alarms For $150K”
Inquiring minds want to know 1- Maintenance protection Plan costs? 2-Manufacture date of “antiquated” existing alarms? 3- Did a solicitation of other bids occur? 4-Has the county commissioners use this firm in the past?
If these are manned, why does it have to be monitored?
$18,800 for a fire alarm !! What do these things do ? Am I the only one who thinks this is crazy ? It just seems like there’s got to be a more reasonable way .