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Executive Perspective: NBFAA and ADLG Helping Hands, Helping Hearts
NBFAA and the Alarm Debt Liquidation Group (ADLG) have teamed up to help industry professionals affected by Hurricane Katrina with a new Web site that offers resources for temporary jobs, housing and other needs.

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Alarm Monitoring Services Takes a Hit, Keeps on Ticking
NBFAA member company Alarm Monitoring Services, which was located in Metairie, La., will now call Monroe, La. home, after the hit from Hurricane Katrina.

The Protection Bureau Aids the Security Industry
By offering temporary jobs, transportation, housing and other needs, NBFAA member company The Protection Bureau is working to alleviate the pain many people suffered from the recent storm.

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Member Benefit Spotlight: DHL
For a limited time, DHL is offering NBFAA members a $20 discount on your first order of ShipReady, the industry’s leading prepaid shipping solution for business. The $20 offer expires October 1, 2005.

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Smart Card System to Coordinate First Responders
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Executive Perspective: NBFAA and ADLG Helping Hands, Helping Hearts

By Merlin Guilbeau
Executive Director

As we make contact with our members and our chapters in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana – the desperation in their voices and their pleas for help ring one message loud and clear…their immediate needs are jobs and housing.

Our fellow colleagues are homeless, their possessions are gone, their businesses and places of employment are severely damaged - and they are unsure where they will go from here. None of us can imagine how frightening the future must be for them.

The NBFAA, with support from Alarm Debt Liquidation Group (ADLG), has set up an infrastructure to assist the affected companies with the task of temporarily placing their employees by connecting them with companies who can immediately offer temporary placement and/or housing.

If you are in a position to put an individual(s) in the alarm industry to work and/or if you can offer an individual(s) a place to live — please register immediately at www.alarm.org or call toll free: 888-447-1689.

Please understand that the owners of the affected businesses need to trust that their employees are being offered temporary placement and will be available to return as they rebuild.

If you are not in a position to offer employment but you know someone who is – or you know someone who needs help—please ask them to contact us as well.

This is your way — our way — to make a difference for these owners and their employees whose lives have been affected by this disaster.

To date, we’ve had a total of 46 companies register and have available over 100 positions.

Thank you in advance for your kind consideration and help in this unprecedented time of need.

Editor’s Note : Log on to our Web site at www.alarm.org to see how you can help with the Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts. If you have questions, please contact the NBFAA toll free at 888-447-1689.

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NTS offers a wide variety of education and training programs online or in a classroom. Just pick a course and start to reap the benefits of NTS.

Editor’s Note : With the disruption of lives and businesses in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, a number of courses may be affected. Please contact NTS at 866-636-1687 for questions concerning courses in those states.

The National Training School (NTS) office located in Louisiana has been temporarily closed because of Hurricane Katrina, but if you need to contact NTS, you can still reach them at 866-636-1687 or send faxes to 814-838-5127 or 985-626-8128. For information via e-mail contact NTS at NTS@alarm.org .

To all CSA's who are completing NTS courses, please send class reconciliation materials and test results to NTS at the following address:
3718 West Lake Road, Erie, PA 16505.

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Member News

Alarm Monitoring Services Takes a Hit, Keeps on Ticking

NBFAA member company Alarm Monitoring Services, which was located in Metairie, La., will now call Monroe, La. home, after the hit from Hurricane Katrina.

Because the company was able to implement their contingency plan, they have continued to monitor Louisiana and other national accounts. In order to stay online, the company first evacuated and then moved its operations to the DICE Corporations Disaster Center in Bay City, Michigan.

Through the NBFAA Member Benefit program with DHL Express, members can save up to 25% on air express and ground shipping. For a limited time, DHL is offering NBFAA members a $20 discount on your first order of ShipReady, the industry’s leading prepaid shipping solution for business. The $20 offer expires October 1, 2005.

For more information, call NBFAA’s Member Benefit program toll free at 888-447-1689 or visit www.alarm.org (go to the Members Only section).