SCHOOLS GET CELL PHONES NORTHEAST VALLEY CAMPUSES RECEIVE EMERGENCY TOOLS.Byline: Troy Anderson Staff Writer Responding to the nationwide concern over campus violence, police handed out 53 donated special 911 emergency cellular telephones Friday to staffers at northeast San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. high schools. As part of a statewide campaign, AirTouch Cellular has donated 2,848 phones to 381 high schools in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County, to give teachers and staff members a quick way to call 911. The phones are programmed to call 911 with the touch of a button and cannot be used to dial other numbers. ``Having these phones on hand is a good way to help a campus be a more secure and safe place,'' said Rick de la Torre La Torre is a municipality located in the province of Ávila, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 357 inhabitants. , a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Office of Education. Officers handed out 53 phones at schools in the Foothill Division area, according to Los Angeles police Lt. Rick Papke. ``This won't prevent a Columbine columbine, in botany columbine (kŏl`əmbīn), any plant of the genus Aquilegia, temperate-zone perennials of the family Ranunculaceae (buttercup family), popular both as wildflowers and as garden flowers. attack, but it will help ensure if there is a problem that the schools can get police there as rapidly as possible,'' Papke said. The distribution is part of the statewide Safeguard Our Schools phone program designed to put more than 10,000 cellular telephones into more than 1,000 schools to increase school safety. The value of the program, sponsored by AirTouch and the Governor's Office, is estimated at $7 million to supply the phones and free service for the next three years. The phones will provide emergency communication for teachers and administrators to use in student gathering areas, such as cafeterias, gymnasiums and athletic fields. San Fernando High School San Fernando High School, located in San Fernando, California, is a secondary school that is a part of the Los Angeles Unified School District. The school colors are black and gold. All girl teams are referred to as Lady Tigers, all boy teams simply as Tigers. Principal Philip Saldivar said he understands the value of the 15 cell phones officers delivered to his school. ``We have a large campus of 33 acres,'' Saldivar said. ``There are certain areas where staff have no way of communicating with the main office.'' The phones would have come in handy Verb 1. come in handy - be useful for a certain purpose be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" a few years ago when a football player suffered a spinal injury and coaches had to leave the field and rush to a pay phone to call for help, Saldivar said. ``At the time it happened, we were at an away game,'' he said. ``It took us 10 minutes. I can see a lot of uses for something like this.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Police Officers Michael Wratten and Deborah Quintal QUINTAL. A weight of one hundred pounds assemble phone kits that will connect staffers at San Fernando High with the LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. with the touch of a button. Charlotte Schmid-Maybach/Staff Photographer |
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