Late Thursday afternoon on September 15, an emergency call came to LD Systems from the Mayor's Office of Special Events. The request was to quickly join the construction team charged with bringing a former large grocery building back to life as the FEMA Houston Processing Center for Katrina victims. LD Systems assembled a team of service techs and sound techs to access the condition of the existing paging system, repair what was possible, and add to the system as needed to insure that an operational system was in place by Saturday afternoon (48 hours from the first phone call). As other companies worked to restore power and clean up a former large grocery building the LDS team, led by Systems Integration employee Scott Davis, were able to restore the building's paging system and supplement it with speakers from the LD Systems inventory. The paging system is critical in keeping those being processed through the center informed while allowing the staff to communicate throughout the building.

Scott Davis directing the team.

The former grocery store slowly transforms into the new local FEMA processing center.

(L. to R.) Robert Ausmus, Matt LeRoy and Doug Alexander integrate LDS mixers and amps into the current paging system in order to be ready on-time.

Doug Alexander and Scott Davis discuss signal routing while in the background Rob Ausmus directs the crew on speaker installation.

LD Systems' speakers hung in area not covered by the existing system which had to be brought back into working order for the next day's use.

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