Finance Committee - 10/18/2017 Page 16
Alderman Siegel
Who is training people to use this?
Mr. Mansfield
It would probably be myself and the same person up in the City of Manchester. | would train our personnel,
and they would train their personnel.
Alderman Siegel
What happens if you go away?
Mr. Mansfield
Then | would hope that everybody knows how to do it. It’s not that complex of a system. It really isn’t. It’s not
like the system that we have down here which is very complex. There are radio shops around that could
provide the service of showing people how to utilize it. These are being utilized throughout the state right now,
the K-Cores.
Alderman O’Brien
| think Mr. Mansfield will agree, and to help my colleague wrap my arms around it, if we look at the current fire
alarm situation, it’s in an old fire station. It’s an old building, is sprinkled and everything, but what’s
immediately behind it is a wooden structure. Up the street, we had a five-alarm fire a couple of years ago. It’s
in a congested neighborhood. What would happen if we lost something as vital as that, radio communication
because the house next door caught on fire and did damage to our current structure, making our fire alarm
communications center inhabitable? We have a failsafe with this plan, it sounds like. Besides of the good
works it would do in case of terrorists or anything else that may go on with the greater regional airport, it has a
lot of plus to me that | can see.
Alderman Cookson
You called it a backup to a backup.
Mr. Mansfield
Correct.
Alderman Cookson
Alright. So the current backup as it currently exists, how many times has it failed in the past year?
Mr. Mansfield
It hasn't.
Alderman Cookson
It hasn’t. How many times has it failed in the last five years?
Mr. Mansfield
That the backup to the backup has failed?
