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Forsyth County News
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One killed in boat wreck on lake
Collision injures three others
By Ashley Fielding
FCN regional staff
Authorities investigat
ing a deadly boating acci¬
dent on Lake Lanier say
E-911
tie-ups
aired
Issue involves
alerts for fires
By Alysw LaRenzie
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Alert tones for the Forsyth County Fire
Department have been iockmg up the
radio system during nighttime emergen¬
cies, but a fix is on the way
Pal Giordano, director of the local 911
center, reported the issue and possible
solutions to the E-911 Advisory Board
during a Monday meeting
The current radio system is patched
with an older system, used by the volun¬
teer firefighters. Giordano said
During a fire, she said, the radio is
locked up for 5 seconds for each tone sent
out because the patch can’t send the alerts
out simultaneously.
“If it was a residential fire, it could
have up to about seven different siations
that would need to be alerted" Giordano
said. “In the middle of the night, in a reg¬
ular residential fire, there are 35 seconds
of locked time The dispatchers can t talk
to anybody and the field units can t talk
to anybody."
A commercial fire could lock up the
radio for up to 50 seconds, she said
Correcting the problem could increase
the department's average response time
from anywhere in that window. Giordano
said
“I hate to say we re dead on the water,
but everybody’s waiting for that block of
time to stop.” she said
The 911 center sends out the tones only
at night to ensure firefighters are awake
During the day. the burden falls to the
individual stations
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was stationary at the time
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A group of volunteers, from left, Ken Fahey, Kelsey Childress, Rob Massey and Chad Rush help clean
up an illegal dump site near Fowler Park as part of the Great American Cleanup event Saturday.
Organized by Keep Forsyth County Beautiful, the effort sent volunteers to clean up sites around the
county.
Volunteers credited
for productive cleanup
By Alyssa LaRenzie
alaren/ieSforsythnews com
The morning before his high school prom.
Rob Massey waded through trash at an ille¬
gal dumping site on Fowler Road
Wearing gloves, the North Forsyth student
carried random discarded items from the
roadside to a large trash receptacle.
Massey said he'd signed up for the Keep
Forsyth County Beautiful Great American
Cleanup with environmental science class¬
mates as a way to “help the community "
Next. I'm going to take a nice. long, hot
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moves into first solar home
Technology will help control energy costs
By Alyssa LaRenzie
alaren?ie'®forsythnews com
Melonic Lingo's smile could've lit
up a room as she received the keys to
her new solar powered home in south
Forsyth
In a ceremony Saturday. Habitat for
Humanity-North Central Georgia ded¬
icated the house, which is the organi¬
zation's first in Georgia to have solar
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Resources is still trying to
determine what happened
on Lanier near East Bank
Park off Suwanee Dam
Road just after midnight
Sunday.
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The wreck killed
Stephen Blake Jones, 59,
ot Duluth and injured
three other people.
It was the first boating
related fatality this year
on the lake, and a spokes
man for DNR said the
agency is still interview
ing witnesses.
technology
T he Lingo family celebrated the fin
ished south Forsyth home w ith church
members, friends and volunteers,
many of whom are employees of
Siemens
The company, which has a division
on McFarland Parkway, sponsored the
project by donating 5100.000 for the
solar technology microinvcrtcr system.
Siemens joined with the nonprofit
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As ot Tuesday, at least
one new witness had
come forward about the
incident.
And DNR investigators
say it appears that one of
the boats involved was
stopped at the time,
though they haven't con¬
firmed that.
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Clay Childress helps clean up an illegal dump site near
Fowler Park.
Relay for Life
meal honors
survivors.
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According to a news
release Sunday from
Gwinnett tire officials, a
husband and wife in their
30s were crossing the
lake in a 21-foot ski boat
when they reportedly
struck an unknown
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for the first time on the protect, also
providing about 150 employee volun
leers who worked on the construction
since late January, said Steve Clark, vice
president of the customer services divi¬
sion.
"T he solar technology that Siemens
installed will convert the sun's power
into electricity, saving the Lingo family
hundreds of dollars every year.” Clark
said “It’s a perfect lit for residential
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making
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