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February 4, 2011
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This article was written by Mark Todd. It was originally published in the Star Beacon on January 27, 2011 . If a catastrophe occurs, Ashtabula County’s CodeRED emergency notification system will minimize the contact problems that befell Lake County during Fairport Harbor’s recent firestorm natural-gas disaster, officials said Wednesday. Lake County’s reverse 911 system, which can pass along bulletins to residents via telephone calls, met with mixed results in Fairport Harbor. Thanks to the popularity of cellular telephones, more than one third of the emergency calls automatically dialed to village residents
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