{"id":7849,"date":"2012-02-28T09:32:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T14:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/?p=7849"},"modified":"2012-02-28T09:32:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T14:32:38","slug":"sounding-the-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/28\/sounding-the-alarm\/","title":{"rendered":"Sounding the Alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Fire-Truck.jpg\" alt=\"Fire Truck on the Go\" title=\"Fire Truck on the Go\" width=\"408\" height=\"308\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7851\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Fire-Truck.jpg 408w, https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Fire-Truck-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/>Last week we received a notice from the City of Hartford.  It is time to renew our house alarm registration with the <a href=\"http:\/\/emergencyservices.hartford.gov\/default.aspx\">City&#8217;s Department of Emergency Services and Telecommunications<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Residents of Hartford are required to register their alarm with the municipality.  We pay $15 per year, which not only gets us into the systems, but also buys us free emergency responses for the first two false alarms within a 12 month period.<\/p>\n<p>There is no policing of the registration in Hartford, but if the City responds to a call and discovers a non-permitted alarm there is the potential for a $99 fine for not registering, on top of the $90 fine if the emergency turns out to be a false alarm.<\/p>\n<p>Other towns have their own laws, so the rules do vary throughout the region.  For example, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glasct.org\/index.aspx?page=1094\">Glastonbury Alarm Ordinance<\/a> requires an annual registration with an initial $25 fee and then $10 per year to renew.  Glastonbury also fines for frequent false alarms, though they have escalating fine amounts instead of Hartford&#8217;s flat rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we received a notice from the City of Hartford. It is time to renew our house alarm registration with the City&#8217;s Department of Emergency Services and Telecommunications. Residents of Hartford are required to register their alarm with the municipality. We pay $15 per year, which not only gets us into the systems, but also buys us free emergency responses for the first two false alarms within a 12 month period. There is no<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt three\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/28\/sounding-the-alarm\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1568,1578,1579],"tags":[1693,3475,1919,1970,3477,2141,2212,2220,4017,2292,3476,2712,3478],"class_list":["post-7849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buying","category-hartford","category-home-maintenance","tag-alarm","tag-burglar","tag-connecticut","tag-ct","tag-false-alarm","tag-fire","tag-glastonbury","tag-greater-hartford","tag-hartford","tag-home","tag-ordinance","tag-real-estate","tag-vlog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7849"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7871,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849\/revisions\/7871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}