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 Being able to come to work, knowing that

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 what your job is, is to protect the

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 people and the

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 communities around you, means a lot.

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 Peak Alarm's been around since 1969.

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 Jerry Howe founded it, an

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 individual here in Utah.

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 He and his family have

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 always owned Peak Alarm.

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 Normally I come into a company and if

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 you've been there for three or five

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 years, you've been there for a long time.

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 When I was interviewing, I was talking to

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 Jerry Howe and he of course had been here

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 for that time about 45 years.

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 And it just really dawned on me that this

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 is truly a family business.

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 That they care about families who work

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 for them and they care about

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 the families they're protecting.

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 And it just felt like a natural fit.

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 Jerry Howe at one time heard of a

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 customer who had been

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 paying us for years overpaid.

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 It was simply, "Alright well make sure

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 you get them the $50,000 back

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 and please pay him interest."

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 That spoke volumes.

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 It's just who Jerry Howe was.

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 He always did the right thing.

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 The culture at Peak Alarm is really what

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 kept me here the longest.

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 It is a family company.

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 It was the whole time has been that way.

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 Even since the acquisition by Pye Barker,

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 we are still the same

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 group we've always been.

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 It's always been a

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 really tight-knit group.

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 And just being that family-oriented

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 business, it was ran that way.

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 Everybody was treated that way.

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 So we try to keep that vibe with all of

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 our employees and that is something we've

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 absolutely, I think we've

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 really succeeded in here.

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 I've always enjoyed that we do meaningful

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 work and we're helping people, protecting

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 people's property and lives.

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 And so I've always

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 found it very rewarding.

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 I remember growing up in every November,

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 my dad would call Jerry Howe and say,

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 "Hey Jerry, I want to buy your business."

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 And Jerry Howe would say, "Hey Rod, I

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 want to buy your business."

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 And they would have this friendly banter

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 every November saying, "Hey,

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 I want to buy your business."

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 We just became fast friends and we would

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 meet up a couple times a year and talk

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 about best practices and

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 what they were working on.

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 And we'd talk about

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 what we were working on.

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 And then ultimately, it came time for the

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 Howe family to make a

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 decision with the family business.

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 And it was really natural for them to

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 call Pye Barker And a lot of it was they

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 watched what we did at Mountain Alarm.

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 There's always concerns when you're

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 selling and it's going to be something

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 new, but there was a lot of excitement.

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 And I think for for Peak selling to Pye

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 Barker and becoming that team, it was

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 probably easier transition for us than a

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 lot of the other ones because we already

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 had that really close relationship with

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 the Mountain Alarm team.

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 We've had team members here that have

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 worked for Peak Alarm for decades.

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 So when it was time to sell, naturally we

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 were concerned of how they would be

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 treated and how their

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 careers would continue.

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 I'm very happy to state that every single

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 one of my employees was

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 offered a job with Pye Barker.

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 Chances for more training, chances for

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 promotion that would take them to a

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 national level instead of

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 just the state of Utah level.

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 I love being with people.

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 I like working with people.

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 I like helping people

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 achieve their potential.

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 I like looking at a problem and working

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 with a team, figuring out

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 how to solve that problem.

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 What we do is important.

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 As Peak Alarm becomes Pye Barker, what I

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 hope for my team is that they continue to

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 feel that every day that they come into

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 work, they still make a difference, that

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 they are helping their customers keep

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 safe from fires, from burks.

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 The opportunities for my employees

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 continue to grow and that's

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 a wonderful chance for them.