In the years before cellphones, even before pagers, emergency responders in small towns relied on the town siren to alert volunteers that they needed to get down to the fire hall.

As the 2025 tornado season approaches, Coal County Emergency Management is taking steps to ensure that its warning system is ready for action.

"The siren tone that we heard on Saturday, this week, is what we call the attack mode," said Eric Rasmussen, director of ...

The Linn County outdoor warning siren system is tested monthly, with the test taking place on the first Wednesday of the ...

The Linn County siren system is fixed after sounding in error two weeks in a row.The Linn County Emergency Management Agency ...

Twice this week, tornado sirens incorrectly went off in Winnebago County. The first false alarm was on Saturday, and the ...

Winnebago County owns and operates its 50 outdoor warning sirens. First installed in the 1950s, they were developed for Cold ...

Nutrien's Lima Nitrogen facility in Shawnee Township will be sounding its outdoor siren and alert system during an emergency training exercise at 9 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 30, according to a press release ...

Ionia County's tornado sirens were accidentally activated during clean-up efforts after a pipe burst at the dispatch center.

Ionia County officials said a pipe burst Friday night, and workers accidentally set off the warning on Saturday while ...