- Author
-
Morgenstern, R. D.
- Title
- False Alarms.
- Coporate
- Congressional Budget Office, Washington, DC
- Journal
-
Urban Analysis,
Vol. 4,
No. 2,
221-234,
1977
- Keywords
-
false alarms
|
fire departments
|
evaluation
|
fire alarm systems
- Identifiers
- municipal engineering
- Abstract
- The subject of this case is false alarms, an increasing problem for fire departments in many areas of the country. In the body of the case we outline the nature of the problem and discuss the objectives and the criteria to be used in the evaluation. We then analyze one particular alternative: namely, discretionary response.