A new safety and security strategy will be used in 100 Cleveland public schools buildings.
The layout of each of the buildings has been mapped in minute detail and will be available as a computer program to every first responder in the city.
“While there is no single plan or solution to eliminate every threat, the use of technology and this tool, will certainly improve the safety of our students and it may just save lives,” said Chief Lester Fultz of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s security team.
The announcement of the computer-mapped images of every building, inside and out, was made at a Thursday afternoon news conference. The work was done by Foremost Safety Solutions, Inc., of Macedonia.
“We have gone into every school,” announced company founder and CEO Roy Meadows, who began the project with a Homeland Security grant two years ago. “We made sure we know every nook and cranny of that school and we made sure these drawings are up to date.”
Meadows obtained blueprints of all the schools, and used them along with site visits and detailed analysis of each property to produce maps to be used by police, fire, and other emergency response personnel.
The program will be loaded into every computer in every emergency response and safety forces vehicle as soon as possible.
Dispatchers will have the same program so they are looking at the same blueprints, layouts, and diagrams as responders on the scene of an emergency.
“It’s just a simple thing that he clicks on the school he wants and from there he can take it through the progression, from the aerial view all the way down to a closet in section red,” said Chief Mark Wentz of the Northfield Police Department.
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