Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Businesses with faulty fire alarms that repeatedly go off erroneously and tie up city firefighters’ — and their equipment’s — ...

DIORIO SHOWS US WHAT THESE CALLS HAVE COST OVER TIME. BETWEEN TIME, MANPOWER AND FUEL. IT TAKES A LOT OF EFFORT AND TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO GET THESE TRUCKS AND EQUIPMENT UP AND RUNNING FOR A CALL. AND ...

Encinitas will be tripling many of its fees for responding to false fire alarm calls in an effort to reduce the “nuisance” incidents that the fire department responds to each year. “It’s a behavior we ...