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The fire dept still uses the siren call

that used to bring all of the volunteers out of their homes and to the station. It's on top of the FD across from the Fairlawn Wal*Mart. Anytime the FD is called out for a car wreck, fire, cat in a tree; it sounds off.
Tornado and air raid would come from the same siren, but the duration of the high pitch is longer for tornado and sustained for air raid.

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Posted: 03/01/2022 at 3:00PM

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