BURBANK OPENS NEW SAFETY BUILDING.Byline: Eric ERIC Educational Research Information Clearinghouse ERIC Educational Resources Information Center ERIC ERISA Industry Committee ERIC Epidemiologic Research and Information Center (Durham, NC) Wahlgren Daily News Staff Writer Capping nearly three years of construction, Burbank Burbank, city (1990 pop. 93,643), Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1911. Tourism and the entertainment industry are central to its economy; several motion-picture studios and television headquarters are here. Burbank's aerospace industry collapsed with the end of the Cold War. on Friday introduced a $30 million public safety building designed to help improve the city's response to crime and disasters with state-of-the-art technology. The building will house Burbank's police and fire headquarters under one roof for the first time. Its floor space of 120,000 square feet is more than double the amount in the two separate buildings that the departments occupied. Despite chilly weather and on-again, off-again on-a·gain, off-a·gain adj. Informal Existing or continuing sporadically; intermittent or occasional: an on-again, off-again correspondence. rain, more than 700 residents, city officials and public safety workers turned out for the dedication ceremony in front of the building at Third and Orange Grove streets. Burbank voters in 1990 rejected a bond measure that would have paid for a costlier building, but city officials went back to the drawing board and found money in redevelopment funds for a scaled-down version. Dramatically designed with a rounded entrance atrium atrium (ā`trēəm), term for an interior court in Roman domestic architecture and also for a type of entrance court in early Christian churches. The Roman atrium was an unroofed or partially roofed area with rooms opening from it. and a campanile-like tower, the building features a 70-bed jail, a crime lab and a 911 communications center An agency charged with the responsibility for handling and controlling communications traffic. The center normally includes message center, transmitting, and receiving facilities. Also called COMCEN. See also telecommunications center. . There is parking for more than 400 vehicles. Police Chief David Newsham said a fiber-optic cable system will allow all computers in the building to access vital records, and the jail will feature hookups for video arraignments of inmates. Newsham said the opening of a museum of vintage public safety equipment and other mementos at the building's entrance should encourage the public to visit rather than avoid the public safety headquarters. ``The siege mentality siege mentality n → Belagerungsmentalität f is gone,'' Newsham said. |
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