District 9 Council information
For Mosquito and rodent control, East Baton Rouge Parish Mosquito Abatement & Rodent
Control Number is 356-3297 (Website)
Each home has to make thier own call.
Metro 9 members,
Case S-1-09 Stromberg Townhouses on the November 4 Metro 9 agenda has
been deferred again, until December.
We still have one other case on the agenda this week.
Thanks,
Liz Alch
Legislative Assistant
Councilman Joel Boé
Metropolitan Council District 9
389-4688
lalch@brgov.com
From District 9 concerning flooding at the enterance:
The drainage work out in the front of the subdivision has been fixed.
Subject: Information from St. George Fire Dept.
Dear St. George Safety Network Member,
Perkins Road Station Repairs Completed
The St. George Fire Station at 13686 Perkins Road has been placed back into
service. The station was temporarily taken out of service on August 18th
for a complete roof replacement, re-insulation, and mold remediation of the
living quarters. All the work has been completed, and Engine 613 and Ladder
618 are back "home."
Time Change and Smoke Alarms
Daylight Savings Time ends on November 1st. It's time to "fall back" or set
the time back one hour before going to bed Saturday night. Or, if you're
working nights or it's otherwise important to you, at 2:00AM Sunday morning,
set the clock back to 1:00AM. When you make that time correction, please go
ahead and change the battery in your smoke alarms. Changing batteries when
changing the time is a good habit to get into.
Have a hard-wired or monitored system? Please keep reading.
Why change the batteries twice a year? It is very cheap insurance to assure
your smoke alarm functions properly if your family needs it. Surveys
indicate about 95% of American homes have smoke alarms. Of those, it is
estimated that at any given time between 25% and 30% are NOT in working
order. The main reason a dead battery.
Even if you have a newer hard-wired system, the vast majority of them have a
9 volt backup battery as well. So, unless the backup battery is a ten year
lithium battery (the coming standard in home smoke alarms) it is a good idea
to change your backup battery. This is important because, quite often,
electrical breakers will trip very early in a fire event, as wiring is
compromised. The most dependable power source in a fire is not your house
wiring, or your alarm system wiring, but a battery that is integral to the
alarm itself. For that to be true, the battery has to work.
Also, if your smoke alarm is over ten years old, you may wish to consider
replacing it. Most manufacturers estimate a ten to twelve year useful life
for the actual smoke sensors in their smoke alarms. Nothing lasts forever;
neither will your smoke alarm. You may ask, if it's never gone off, except
for those monthly tests, why replace it? The sensors may lose some of their
sensitivity beyond that expected lifespan. Again, smoke alarms are very
inexpensive, but they are priceless if your family needs them. One more
thing to realize is that when you push the test button, you are actually
testing the battery's ability to power the alarm device. The test button
does not test the sensor. No smoke alarm in MY home is over ten years old.
Speaking of monthly tests, I have personally linked changing my A/C filters
with testing my smoke detectors. I try to remember to do both on the first
of each month. It only takes a few seconds.
Eldon Ledoux
Public Information Officer
St. George Fire Protection District
13686 Perkins Road
Baton Rouge, LA 70810
(225) 454-6573 or (225) 279-1493
