Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 128, No. 114, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 13, 2018 Page: 1 of 10
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General
contractor
Bryan
Thomas
clears
brush at
the corner
of North
Weaver
and
Cummings
streets
Monday
morning
to make
way for
a new
home.
Megan
Gray-
Hatfield/
Gainesville
Making room
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City seeks
County
burn ban
continues
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TV: Find out what’s on this week. 6-7
grant to
repair GPD
radio system
Police repeater down
6 days in 12 months
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By MEGAN GRAY-HATFIELD
StaffWriter
mhatfield@gainesvilleregister.com
There is rain in the forecast but not
enough to lift the countywide burn ban.
On Monday, the Cooke County’s average
Keetch-Byram Drought Index, used by the
Texas Forest Service to measure drought
conditions throughout the state, was 419.
The KBDI ranges from 0 to 800, accord-
ing to Texas A&M’s Texas Weather
Connection website. A drought index of 0
represents no moisture depletion, and an
index of 800 represents “absolutely dry
conditions.”
Cooke County Fire Marshal Ray
Fletcher said continued dryness is a major
factor when it comes to fire danger while
noting that the U.S. Drought Monitor
shows the majority of the county in severe
drought.
Four citations have been issued in the
past two weeks for burn ban violations, he
said.
“One of those resulted in not a huge fire
but a very dangerous fire that encroached
on two more homes,” Fletcher said. “It
(the fire) was in the backyard of one home
burning trash. It’s dangerous.”
According to the National Weather
Service, rain chances range from 20 to 50
percent this week. However, if received,
rainfall amounts will not exceed one-quar-
ter of an inch, Fletcher said after talking
with the NWS.
“While we’ll get a little moisture in the
air, the soil moisture is just not there at
all,” he said. “(There’s) no recovery in
sight, at least immediately.”
Outdoor burning has been banned
countywide since Jan. 29.
By MEGAN GRAY-HATFIELD
StaffWriter
mhatfield@gainesvilleregister.com
After malfunctions decreased
the Gainesville Police Department’s
communication’s reliability rate, the
department is looking to replace its
repeater.
Gainesville City Council mem-
bers approved the submission of
a grant application to the Office of
the Governor’s Criminal Justice
Division to replace a radio repeater
at a cost of $27,599.
According to information pro-
vided to council members, the police
department’s current repeater
system is using a T1 circuit link to
establish the connection from the
communication center radio console
to the remote repeater.
The link has proven to be unreli-
able and has failed several times,
disrupting communication with offi-
cers in the field.
From Oct. 1, 2016, to Oct. 1, 2017,
the T1 circuit link was down for part
or all of six separate days, the infor-
mation states.
One of these events lasted 72
hours, according to city officials.
The link would occasionally come
up but then fail again.
These failures reduced the
department’s reliable operational
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Armstrong, Mark J. Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 128, No. 114, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 13, 2018, newspaper, February 13, 2018; Gainesville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1324166/m1/1/?rotate=90: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Cooke County Library.