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Council adopts stricter false-fire-alarm ordinance after department reports high share of false commercial alarms
Summary
Council approved General Ordinance 11-20-25 to add a tiered fine schedule for repeat false commercial fire alarms after the fire department reported that more than half of October fire responses were false alarms to commercial properties. The ordinance also authorizes inspection tracking through the city’s IPI division.
Michael Wright, city legal counsel, introduced a proposed amendment to city code (general ordinance 11-20-25) to address repeat false commercial fire alarms.
A Terre Haute Fire Department representative told the council the department and central dispatch recorded about 1,270 calls in October, of which 129 were fire-related runs and roughly 75 were false commercial alarms. The official summarized the ordinance’s intended enforcement structure: initial…
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