West Deer one step closer to enforcing stiffer penalties for false alarms
(World News USA)

14 minutes ago West Deer supervisors are one step closer to imposing harsher fines on people whose alarms accidentally go off three or more times per year. Supervisors on Wednesday approved advertising an update to the township’s false alarm ordinance, which could potentially be voted on and approved at the supervisors’ Oct. 21 meeting. Supervisor Brandon Forbes proposed the update because responding to false alarms places a substantial burden on police and volunteer fire companies. “We don’t want to see our volunteers going out for numerous false alarms and taking them away from calls that really need attention,” Supervisor Beverly Jordan said. “We felt...