{"id":24464,"date":"2013-06-25T12:24:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T16:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=24464"},"modified":"2013-06-25T12:24:06","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T16:24:06","slug":"lee-county-parks-recreation-to-boost-safety-with-detectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/06\/lee-county-parks-recreation-to-boost-safety-with-detectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee County Parks &#038; Recreation <br>To Boost Safety With Detectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-24465\" title=\"Weatherbug\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Weatherbug-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Weatherbug-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Weatherbug.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/>Lee County Commissioners\u00a0on Tuesday\u00a0approved funding to place an early lightning alert system at various youth athletic facilities and swimming pools that Lee County Parks &amp; Recreation owns and manages.<\/p>\n<p>The department now will purchase and install the lightning alert system at 17 sites with 19 total alert systems. Work is expected to begin next week. The $132,644 cost will be covered by the county\u2019s Parks &amp; Recreation Major Maintenance budget from the current fiscal year, 2012-13. Parks staff worked diligently with the Lee County School District to use existing infrastructure to offset costs to the county.<\/p>\n<p>The installation compliments Lee County Parks &amp; Recreation\u2019s goal to provide safe and quality facilities. \u201cThis installation will dramatically minimize potential dangers associated with summertime storms and lightning events for our residents and visitors alike,\u201d said Dave Harner, Lee County Parks &amp; Recreation director and assistant county manager.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The system \u2013 called WeatherBug Total Lightning Network \u2013 incorporates an integrated intra-cloud and cloud-to-ground lightning-detection network. It helps characterize severe storm precursors \u2014 improving lead times and weather-management planning.\u00a0It uses outdoor alerts for mass notification, mobile alerts for staff to use in the field, internal alerts for offices and facilities, and online alerts to show area weather for staff to stay informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee County Commissioners\u00a0on Tuesday\u00a0approved funding to place an early lightning alert system at various youth athletic facilities and swimming pools that Lee County Parks &amp; Recreation owns and manages. The&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":24465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}