 What makes for excellence in heart care? It starts with one of the most amazing teams of heart surgeons and cardiologists that I've seen assembled under one roof and the region's leading technology in a new $40 million facility. This is the nationally recognized Heart and Vascular Institute of Eastern Kentucky at Pikeville Medical Center. Recently, Pikeville Fire Department upgraded their sign to include a digital message unit. The unit cost roughly $30,000 and was made possible in partnership with the Pikeville City Manager. Now the fire department can quickly update any messages for the public regarding events and general fire safety tips. So we looked into getting a couple different companies quoted some prices and working alongside the city manager and the chief we got a quote and decided to go forward with that and we went with Daktronics through Unisign. It's a 3 foot by 5 foot message unit and like I said it's fully electric so fully digital so I can upgrade and update the message anytime I want to on the internet just through any computer. So if we have something that needs to go out rapidly I can go ahead and update that from anywhere. Fleming says this sign is an investment in public safety and education. The public can be made aware of the fire department's messages if any important information needs to be published. As you see out there right now we have some fire prevention material that we can post up there. We also can use it for recruitment. If we're currently hiring we can post a message up there let everybody know that we're hiring or what our activities are. So it's a very good useful tool that we can use for our department. And again we've only had it for a few weeks now but I think it's been a very useful thing for us to have for our department and I think the public gets to see a lot more messages and content from us. So we expect that a lot of our messages will get seen by the public and we're really we're very serious about fire prevention public education so that's mostly what we're going to be using it for is putting those messages out there and of course you know it's very it's very bright and very vibrant so it will catch people's eye a lot better I think so. We're morning from mountaintop news I'm Nick Cullum