Patent ID: 8600338

Claim:
An automated emergency page notification system for fire stations comprising hardware and software that alerts emergency personnel of an emergency radio page via cell phone text messaging, including the actual audio of the page from their dispatch, and which system allows them to reply with a response status via cell phone text messaging to a display screen at their fire station so that others may know who is responding to the fire station, responding to the scene of the fire, delayed but still responding, or not available to respond, wherein the said hardware is comprised of a desktop computer running the system software and which said computer is connected by a serial com port to a radio receiver with a page alert tone decode which receiver receives radio transmissions from a fire station dispatch paging transmitter, and which said computer is connected by a network connection to mail servers of the said system which such mail servers are connected by an internet broadband service provider to a cellular service system with small message service and multimedia message service texting relay capabilities wherein such cellular service system is connected by radio transmissions to firemen's cell phones, and wherein the said software utilizes a program employing a page mode which sends small message service and multimedia text messages to addresses in a phone directory database of the said system and a wait mode which checks a mail server of the system periodically, and wherein said responses from the firemen to emergency alerts from the fire station are sent via small message service text messaging with code letters indicating a fireman's immediate status.