Hi Randy,
All frequencies have at least one repeater and some have voting stations.

Michael

At 02:36 PM 1/25/01 -0500, you wrote:
>It sounds as though you are on the right track with the communications. One
>word of caution is that many two way radios work on line of sight. In our case
>even the 5watt Kenwood 2 way radios did not work well across our campus since
>the university is located on the side of a mountain. They did not work well
>when trying to communicate from the inside of the buildings either. We did not
>buy them.
>The campus police here use radios with repeaters so they can communicate
>across
>campus and with the city fire department. The cell phones that supporting
>departments have are extremely valuable during emergencies as they free up the
>radio channels that fire and police departments are using. Pagers also work
>well for contacting people, but having a phone by your side is a major
>convenience. In addition, the cell phones are useful during normal business
>hours and therefore are cost efficient.
>
>Randy Shebby
>Safety Manager
>Lehigh University
>
>"Michael J. Fox" wrote:
>
> > At 01:35 PM 1/25/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> > >What kind of communication system(s) do you have in time of emergency?
> > >For example, how does an institution's campus police or campus security
> > >contact a department (Housekeeping or Maintenance) for assistance with a
> > >flood, light outage, fire alarm system malfunction, elevator problem,
> > >broken window, malfunctioning automatic door, lock problem, etc.
> >
> > Yale University has a 24 hr call center for Physical Plant operations which
> > has two way radio communications with supervisors and physical plant
> > personnel during normal business hours. Further, all physical plant
> > personnel (excluding dining hall and custodial staff, just supervisors
> > carry them) carry alpha numeric pagers for 24 hour response from home.
> >
> > Also, Yale University Police has a 24 hour dispatch which has two way radio
> > communications with Officers for police operations. This is a business
> > frequency. The University emergency number rings to them as do all of the
> > campus "Emergency" phones. The university Police do carry Nextels for non
> > emergency use.
> >
> > Last but not least, Yale University Security has a 24 hour dispatch for
> > burglar and fire alarm monitoring. They are responsible for calling the
> > fire department on all fire alarms and University Police on all burglar
> > alarms. University Security Officers also do lock-outs for the entire
> > University.
> >
> > >We at Ramapo College are looking at "Nextel" a cell phone --
> > >walkie/talkie device and pager (I believe that's the level of options)
> > >-- so that we can "marshall the troops" -- including senior
> > >administrators, housing officials, etc., in time of crisis that would
> > >warrant a quick response.
> > We have also looked at going to Nextels for non emergency use, but since we
> > have already invested heavily on our own radio systems, and the fact that
> > for life safety we do not want to depend on the performance of equipment
> > that we do not have control over, we haven't bought any.
> >
> > >How do you go about contacting people who can either fix the problem or
> > >make a decision about it?
> >
> > We have a night time supervisor who makes these decisions and a call list
> > of home phone numbers/pager numbers.
> >
> > >Who is contacted if you must make a statement to the media as a result
> > >of the crisis?
> > Our Department of Public Relations, Univerity Secretary, Fire Marshal, or
> > Chief of Police.
> >
> > Michael Fox
> > Dep. Fire Inspector
> > Yale University
> > Office of the Fire Marshal
> > 314 Prospect Street
> > New Haven, CT 06515
> > voice: 203-432-9924
> > fax: 203-432-8937
> > email: [log in to unmask]