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Town <br /> OceSeleetn <br /> M 16 Great Neck Road Nt. <br /> AULE Mashpee, Massarhuseff-s 02649 <br /> Tekp&ne(508)539-1400 <br /> R IN1NMD1ATE RELEASE FaX 539-1403 <br /> Town of Mashpee Implements Reverse 911 system <br /> As of 12 Noon, Thursday, August 22, Zoo , the Town of Mashpee placed into service <br /> Comm interactive notification system"REVERSE 911". <br /> Reverse 911, developed by an Indiana company, allows our Fire and Police departments <br /> and other town officials to eah every hone in a particular area, and then deliver a <br /> recorded message. The system will record a message from the Fire Chief, Police Chief or <br /> other key officials and automatically send it to whatever group of phone lines the <br /> department selects. <br /> During Hurricane Bob, members of the Fire and Police departments had to go door to <br /> door to notify residents of the coastal flood plan of the impending storm. With Reverse <br /> 911 coastal residents can be given a specific evacuation procedure message over the <br /> phone, speeding up the notification process. <br /> "We basically have down loaded the Mashpee telephone hook into a computer," states <br /> Fire Chief George W. Baker. Work is now proceeding to form specialized lists to enable <br /> the town to rapidly recall personnel and keep specific groups informed during the time of <br /> a disaster or vide scale emergency. <br /> This system is geographically specific giving lave enforcement officials the ability to <br /> notify neighborhood groups and business clusters of urgent crime issues, putting diose <br /> areas on look out. Additionally, this system will give a direct local tie into the Amber <br /> Alert System. <br /> Mashpee was able to purchase this system with funds allocated to the Mashpee Cable <br /> Advisory Committee for community wide technology improvements. The cost of <br /> materials and installation totaled $32,000. Mashpee is the first town on Cape Cod t <br /> have such a systerm <br /> Over the next month we w1 be sending a series of test messages to inform our citL*zens o <br /> the systen poll businesses for additional contact numbers and begin administrative <br /> review of specific procedures to be followed for the use of this system. <br /> For more information contact George faker, Fire Chief 508-539-1454 <br /> Joyce M. Mason <br /> Town Administrator <br />