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Having Trouble Re-locating the Fire Siren?

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Obscure Cellphone Company Shows How to Do It.

IN RECENT YEARS THERE HAVE BEEN several instances where small-town citizens have started complaining about those pesky fire sirens making those horrible noises whenever one of their neighbors has an emergency and needs help.  And when the local VFD builds a new firehouse in a different location, a war breaks out when they start constructing a tower for the house siren.  Getting the Yuppies’ permission to erect a tower for your siren is a difficult struggle at best.

But fear not, a possible solution may have been discovered by an upstart cellphone company called NextG Networks.  Their game plan came to light last week in Mt. Sinai, New York (Long Island), when the Demarco family came home one evening and found a 40-ft. metal pole sticking out of their front yard.  They soon learned that within a few days there would be a platform placed on the top with an array of cellphone equipment on it.

Apparently NextG had applied for a permit to erect their mini-tower, but the town of Brookhaven had not approved it.  So, going on the presumption that since the permit was never denied, then it would be ok to build it, up it went.

Watch WABC-TV’s video report on what happened next:

 

Read the story on WABC’s webpage HERE.

Firegeezer asks you:  Is there any sweeter sound than this? ….

 

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Posted by on February 5, 2011 • Filed under: communications, current events, News, Videos • Tagged: , ,
  • nick

    Love the fire sirens. A town I lived in several years ago had a fire siren. In fact I lived around the corner from the firehouse and always got pumped up when the siren went off but then one day they stopped using it. I was told the town told them they had too many complaints about it from a new development. It was only used between 6am and 6pm for that reason. I wrote the paper saying it wasnt fair new residents make the rules and the siren going off lets folks know theres an emergency and should be on the lookout for emergency vehicles. At least I got to vent but didnt help a thing to get the siren back working.

  • http://twitter.com/firehat firehat

    My VFD had two sirens for decades but after 9/11 people started complaining that they were scared when they heard it. We eventually agreed to only blow the sirens for fires (as opposed to MVA’s, automatic alarms, etc.) and then eventually removed them both.