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rr m n 3 vol 102 no 24 metroland community newspaper wednesday june 13 1990 36 pages soceijtsy tracy kibble staff reporter it cost whitchurchstouffville taxpayers more than 17000 for a 120day period to answer the 26 remote alarm calls the local volun teer fire department responds to council in committee learned tuesday v and although the calls are slow ing down a bit the department is still getting a regular call vol ume fire chief bill brown said it costs 600 to 700 answer one of these what can be done it seems its a benefit to put an alarm system in but its not the insurance people who answer them councillor emmerson said i question the fact that people pay big dollars to a monitoring company but when the alarm goes off they dont do the leg work r we do chief brown said- he also pointed put that although every citizen or company may not be able to afford an alarm system the cost to answer them is spread over a large span of people who dont have them in my- recollection only one remote call turned out to be a real fire since i have never been to one that was an actual fire emer gency chief brown said he added that 29kp cent of all province- wide calls are remote whereas here 17 per cent of all calls are remote alarms were well below the provincial average by a long shot he added that a recent response to a remote call outside of town turned out to be a burglar alarm he said this endangers the lives of the firemen who are not equipped to deal with criminals who may be armed and dangerous jgggfglp t7tt the chief sent a letter and an invoice for 600 to the company which admitted in a letter it wrong fully dispatched the fire department instead of the police chief brown added that the company refused to pay the 600 bill how do i pursue this were making a conscious effort to deter this from happening but its diffi cult to charge back in light of the chiefs ongoing concerns ward 1 councillor mar- got marshall made amotion to have the department continue mon- p itoririg remote alarms for a further s 120 days and have the chief talk to the towns solicitor to see what recourse the department has local boy injured in dog attack a summitview public school student was attacked by a dog sun day while delivering flyers in a stouffville neighborhood say york regional police trevor fogal 1 1 approached a home on church street north sun day morning at about 1030 am when a fullgrown black labrador jumped on him says corinne fogal the boys mother trevor is scared of dogs as it is and often is chased by canines while on his regular paper route she says according to mrs fogal her son went up on the porch and when he turned around to leave the dog jumped on him- threw him to the ground and bit him on the back of his left shoulder the bite was not bad enough to require stitches she says but the skin was broken and he was bleed ing he had on a nylon jacket and i think this protected him some what mrs fogal says also when trevor fell to the ground he may have fractured his elbow he received xrays and his arm is now in a sling until it can be deter mined if the elbow is just severely bruised or fractured mrs fogal says the dog retreated from the boy when he screamed terribly she- adds police were notified and say the owner is not sure when the dog last received immunization shots the animal will be taken away for a mandatory 10day quarantine period at a nearby kennel to ensure he does not have rabies police say i i