EXHIBIT 99.2

PROTECTION ONE                                          WESTERN RESOURCES
David M.V. Barnes                                       Jim Martin
Vice President                                          Investor Relations
Strategic Planning & Investor Relations                 (785) 575-6549
(310) 342-6309

WEB SITES                                               WESTERN RESOURCES
www.protectionone.com                                   Michel Philipp
www.wstnres.com                                         Media Relations
                                                        (785) 575-1927
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

             WESTERN RESOURCES, PROTECTION ONE AND LIFELINE SYSTEMS
            ANNOUNCE EXTENSION OF TERMINATION DATE IN CONNECTION WITH
                       THE PROTECTION ONE-LIFELINE MERGER

                  Topeka, Kansas, Culver City, California and Framingham,
Massachusetts, March 19, 1999 - Western Resources, Inc. (NYSE: WR), Protection
One, Inc. (NYSE: POI) and Lifeline Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: LIFE) today announced
that they have agreed to extend the termination deadline from April 30, 1999 to
June 1, 1999 in the Amended and Restated Agreement and Plan of Merger and
Contribution, dated as of October 28, 1998 (the "Merger Agreement") and the
various voting agreements between the parties to the Merger Agreement and
certain Protection One and Lifeline stockholders, including Western Resources.

                  More information on the proposed merger can be obtained by
reviewing Protection One's preliminary information statement and Lifeline's
preliminary proxy statement, both of which were filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission on February 12, 1999.

                  Protection One, the leading residential security alarm company
in the United States, provides monitoring and related security services to more
than 1.5 million residential and commercial subscribers worldwide.

                  For more information about Protection One and its operating
companies, visit them on the internet at http://www.protectionone.com.


                  Western Resources is a consumer services company with
interests in monitored security and energy. The company has total assets of more
than $8 billion, including security company holdings through ownership of
Protection One (NYSE: POI), which has more than 1.5 million security customers
in 48 states. Its utilities, KPL and KGE, provide electric service to
approximately 600,000 customers in Kansas. Through its ownership in ONEOK Inc.
(NYSE: OKE), a Tulsa-based natural gas company, Western Resources has a 45
percent interest in the eighth largest natural gas distribution company in the
nation, serving more than 1 million customers.

                  For more information about Western Resources and its operating
companies, visit them on the Internet at http://www.wstnres.com.

                  Lifeline is the leading provider of personal response services
in the United States and Canada. Lifeline currently serves more than 230,000
subscribers from its response centers in Cambridge, MA and Toronto, Ontario,
Canada, and estimates it serves, along with community hospitals, more than
350,000 subscribers in North America. Lifeline is committed to providing
reassurance and peace of mind to those people who live alone and are faced with
isolation and loneliness as well as the need for emergency response.

                  For more information about Lifeline, visit them on the
Internet at http://www.lifelinesys.com.

                  Statements contained in this press release concerning the
consummation of the Protection One-Lifeline merger and other statements of
management's beliefs, goals and expectations are "forward-looking statements" as
that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995,
and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those expressed in or implied by the statements,
including the possibility that the Lifeline Systems acquisition is not
consummated. Other risks and uncertainties are described in Protection One's
preliminary information statement filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission on February 12, 1999. See Western Resources' annual report on Form
10-K/A for other factors affecting it. Protection One and Western Resources
disclaim any obligation to update any forward-looking statements as a result of
developments occurring after the date of this press release.