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Originally Posted by LianaB
How muh does this neighborhood program cost, to those willing to contribute?
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The devices can be a bit costly....over $1000 when purchased for our street, then there is a charge for the alert notification plan. Not sure what the figures are today, but when there are many contributing, costs are not too much for individual families.
When our system was fairly new and all our responders had pagers, we got an alert one day to proceed to a house on our street. Quickly all the responders who were home headed to the address with two AEDs in hand. Thirteen people were ready. One person knocked on the door and we were ready to do what needed to be done. Slowly the door opened and a very sweet older lady appeared. I think we scared her half to death....
. Just as we were asking her if there was a problem, the rest of the page came through....it was a test. I'm so glad there was no problem and the responders were there with lightning speed....just felt badly that this poor woman was frightened. (We now have a different notification system)