Tag: Hank Clemmensen

It's the season of spin. But no matter how you slice it, the opening paragraph of last week's commentary by Hank Clemmensen, president of the International Association of Fire Chiefs, isn't a ringing endorsement of central stations. “I always had supported remote station monitoring for my city's fire alarms, both because I believed it would provide faster notification and because I believed central stations always take too long,” wrote Clemmensen, the fire chief in Inverness, Ill., on...