When the office was hit by lightning and someone smelled smoke, an electronic technician climbed ... that is picked up by and activates every tornado siren in the county, said Whitney Shipley ...

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

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

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

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

Ionia County Central Dispatch says the button to set off the sirens was accidentally "tripped" while staff was working to clean up and continue operations after a pipe burst.

"We were just relaxing, watching TV and then all of a sudden, we could hear the tornado sirens outside sounding," said Jeff Behnke of Oshkosh. But the sound he and his family heard Saturday ...

Despite the blaring sirens, Ionia County residents can rest assured there was no tornado ripping through the area Saturday afternoon. There was however an unfortunate water leak near siren’s controls ...

On Tuesday night, one siren in the city of Oshkosh erroneously sounded off a tornado warning alert. This comes after the county sirens falsely sent out an "Attack Mode" sound over the weekend.