BRUNSWICK HILLS TOWNSHIP, Ohio -- Fire Chief Anthony Strazzo has thanked township resident Pam Dressel for her work with the department’s emergency lock box program.

A fire department lock box is a safe, accessible only to the fire department, where house and building keys are stored for emergency access.

This allows firefighters to enter a building when residents are not home without damaging doors or windows.

Dressel was presented with a Community Safety Award from the department at the Nov. 11 Board of Trustees meeting for her efforts in having lock boxes installed at 97 of the 127 houses in The Crossings subdivision.

Strazzo said that once she heard about the program, Dressel took it upon herself to inform and sign up as many new residents as she could.

“That wouldn’t be possible

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