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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:31 pm
by 800
Control wrote:
mike wrote:I thought ''life alert'' was the thing the elderly wear so if an emergency happens to them they can push the button?
'LIFE alert' was one of those cute acronyms, stands for
Lifesaving
Information
For
Emergencies.
Control is correct. LIFE was originally put together in 1978, and operated on one of the subcarriers of KPBS-FM, using a specially modified receiver normally given to the blind for the then-broadcast 'books on tape' programs. As I recall, the County got a grant to move it to the paging system in '82.