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Parent tells school board alert system failed to notify police during recent alarm
Summary
John Grama, a parent, told the board that an automated school alarm that sounded the previous week did not notify 911 dispatch or neighboring agencies, leaving students sheltering in place without responders.
John Grama, a parent of children in the district, told the Londonderry School Board on Sept. 2 that an alert triggered earlier this week did not notify emergency dispatch and left students sheltering in place without responders arriving. "We had a very traumatic event where a system went off accidentally and law enforcement and fire weren't notified," Grama said.
Grama said he reviewed dispatch logs and spoke with neighboring agencies and Concord; he said neither Concord nor the police across the street received a call when the alert activated. "That system either goes to the PSAP in Concord ... or it goes directly across the street and people are…
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