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Patten Towers makes hundreds of emergency calls each year

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Channel: chattanooga times free press · 2013 · News & Politics

First of all, it could be another four days before the 241 residents of Patten Towers are allowed to return home.

The 11-story building was evacuated after an electrical fire Tuesday night.

Close to 200 residents are currently in an emergency shelter and others are staying with family.

When firefighters first arrived on scene at Patten Towers, there was no way to tell if they were heading for an actual emergency.

The building's residents placed 384 emergency calls last year and more than 100 so far this year. And 60 of the calls this year have been accidental alarms.

Each response costs taxpayers an extra $530 dollars, that's an extra $622 thousand dollars for nearly 12 hundred calls since 2010.

It's still unclear what sparked Tuesday night's blaze.

Patten Towers makes hundreds of emergency calls each year

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