When a fire breaks out in Oyster Bay overnight, volunteer firefighters are alerted to the blaze. A text is sent. A radio relays the information. Then a loud fire horn blares through the hamlet. The ...

Parents at Clara E. Coleman Elementary School in Glen Rock wanted the fire siren atop the school silenced. Too often, they said, learning at the school is randomly interrupted by the loud whine of the ...

FORT LAUDERDALE — The piercing sound of fire alarms being tested at the Pier Sixty-Six construction site can go off at any moment, rattling the nerves of nearby homeowners and people who happen to be ...

Workers have been busy around Duluth recently, erecting poles bearing sirens for the city's new emergency warning system. The 31 sirens replace a 36-siren system dating from the 1970s. The new sirens ...

WEST PEORIA — When the siren goes off, Fire Chief Terry Schadt says that's a sign that help's on the way. But those not in the know, or who aren't longtime residents of West Peoria, might instead ...

CANNON BEACH, Ore. — People near Cannon Beach may have heard the tsunami warning siren system go off Wednesday morning. Cannon Beach Rural Fire Protection District clarified Wednesday afternoon that ...

Full-volume testing of the Museum Fire/Spruce Wash flood-area siren alert system is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Friday, June 14. The testing will confirm the proper functioning of the sirens ahead of ...