7 - 9-1-1 dispatchers In Arlington Heights Illinois sent to area hospitals

[BFD389RET 112]

Today it seems an extinguishing system activated within the communications center and 7 employees were removed to area hospitals............

http://www.arlingtoncardinal.com/2014/10/seven-911-dispatchers-transported-to-area-hospitals-from-northwest-central-dispatch-system-after-spark-extinguishing-agent-discharged-arlington-heights/

[WAS967 97]

Kinda makes you wonder.....if YOUR local dispatch center is disabled, what backups can you failover to?

[BFD389RET 112]

That and if 7 , a super and say 3 and 3 all get Gassed , and collapse , or get gassed and have to evac the center ..THEN WHAT?? it says they were only "down" 3 or so minutes (yeah right...) In some places Leaving "A" to GET to "B" (like the EOC) if its located away isnt going to happen and be set up in 3 or 10 minutes....Lots of Things to consider....

[Jybehofd 85]

getting gased.... maybe but if that happens there are bigger problems... how about if they order food from a place and they under cook it for some reason or another they get food poisoning. Something simple can bring a system down easier then something more complex.

[SOUSGT 357]

Something doesn’t seem right.

The FM 200 system is supposed to sound an alarm and flash a light (usually labeled “AGENT”) 20-45 seconds before it discharges.

1) To allow the occupants time to get out before the discharge.

2) In the event of a malfunction of the sensing equipment to activate an override to cancel the discharge.