Category Archives: Safety

Smart 911 – Save a Life

27 Wednesday Sep 2017

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Montgomery County residents should sign up for Smart911. It is a free service that residents can use to provide information they want first responders to have in the event of an emergency – like how many pets you have or if someone in the home has a disability and needs special assistance. If a 911 call is received from the phone number in the profile, the profile will automatically be displayed to the 911 call taker. Your information in the profile can ONLY be accessed by the call taker if a 911 call is placed from the registered phone number. Register today. It could save a life! www.smart911.com.

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Lower Merion Community Watch -Sign up

11 Sunday Dec 2016

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Here is how you can do something (in cooperation with the LMPD) to help protect your neighborhood from the perps who are breaking into cars and robbing homes in Lower Merion. So don’t sit back and wait for someone else to do it.

Sign up! >> http://lmcommunitywatch.org/

The Lower Merion Community Watch Volunteer Program works in cooperation with Lower Merion Police Department to provide residents an opportunity to assist in ongoing crime prevention efforts. Our organization focuses on an elite standard of crime watch patrol and remains recognized as one of the nation’s finest program.

Mosquito Sample Tests Positive for West Nile Virus in Rosemont

12 Tuesday Jul 2016

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The Montgomery County Health Department (MCHD) has informed Lower Merion Township that mosquitoes collected in a July 8th, 2016 sample tested positive for the West Nile Virus. The sample was taken from Ashbridge Park in Rosemont.

The Township has NOT been notified of any action deemed necessary by the MCHD in response to this positive test, but will provide updates as further information becomes available.
Taking the following steps from the MCHD website can help reduce the risk of contracting the West Nile Virus or any other mosquito-borne illness:

When outdoors, use repellents containing DEET, picaridin, IR3535, some oil of lemon eucalyptus or paramenthane-diol. Follow the directions on the package.

Many mosquitoes are most active from dusk to dawn. Be sure to use insect repellent and wear long sleeves and pants at these times or consider staying indoors during these hours.

Make sure you have good screens on your windows and doors to keep mosquitoes out.

Get rid of mosquito breeding sites by emptying standing water from flower pots, buckets and barrels. Change the water in pet dishes and replace the water in bird baths weekly. Drill holes in tire swings so water drains out. Keep children’s wading pools empty and on their sides when they are not being used.

For more information on West Nile Virus please contact the Montgomery County Health Department at (610) 278-5117, or click here for the Department’s web page on the virus: http://www.montcopa.org/2415/West-Nile-Virus

Parents seek AED machines for LM Township rec fields – Main Line Times – Main Line Media News

24 Thursday Mar 2016

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Parents seek AED machines for LM Township rec fields – ARDMORE>>Residents for and against the proposed (and now tabled) Ardmore Residential Historic District were not the only attendees at the crowded Lower Merion Board of Commissioners meeting on March 16. A group of more than 25 parents and young athletes waited patiently until around 11 p.m. to make their case to commissioners for the purchase of Automated External Defibrillator (AED) machines to be stationed at all ball fields in the township to provide immediate response on-site in the case of sudden cardiac arrest at a ball game or athletic event.

Source: Parents seek AED machines for LM Township rec fields – Main Line Times – Main Line Media News

In Lower Merion ‘Transaction Safe Place’ for Online Trades

08 Tuesday Dec 2015

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In response to growing safety concerns with using meet-and-trade sites like Craigslist, the Lower Merion Police Department is joining law enforcement agencies around the country by offering the parking lot of the Lower Merion Public Safety building as “transaction safe place.” Residents may also use the lobby of the building, at 71 E. Lancaster Avenue in Ardmore, during business hours (8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday).

The LMPD is offering the lot as a safe place to meet and conduct transactions. The use of the parking lot and lobby also serves as a deterrent for criminals.
Police in Philadelphia (any precinct station), Conshohocken, Abington and Lansdale, among other local, state and national law enforcement agencies, have also offered the use of police facilities and parking lots as places to carry out online transactions. Earlier this year, Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman encouraged the practice among all county jurisdictions, according to an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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