Seconds count in a life-threatening medical emergency or a fire. Yet many times, firefighters responding to an emergency find access blocked by locked entrance doors or gates. To help reduce delays in providing emergency assistance, Avondale Fire- Rescue promotes property owner use of the KNOX-BOX® Rapid Entry System.

The Knox Company takes pride in manufacturing vandal resistant products. While the majority of the security components are engineered into the product design, the safe guarding of the KNOX-BOX® is contingent upon the correct installation of the product.

Alachua County, Florida

The fire department wants your keys.

Whether the keys are to your private business or your community church, High Springs Fire Chief Verne Riggall wants a copy made accessible to the fire department, in the hope that one day it could save you some money, or maybe even someone’s life.

That’s why he’s working on an ordinance proposal to be brought before the City Commission, which would call for new businesses to install a Knox-Box, and he is also readily encouraging already established ones to get them too.

Read full article in Alachua County Today