Wailing sirens accompanied by extreme weather conditions are a familiar sound in Northwest Missouri in spring and summer. Severe Weather Preparedness Week, which is underway in Missouri and Kansas, is ...

typically the longer sirens would not sound. Spence said that while he's unaware of a comparable system failure during his 24-year career in Indianapolis emergency services, Tuesday's alarm glitch ...

So, what do you do when you see an ambulance's flashing lights but don't hear its sirens? Generally, if an ambulance has its lights on but not its sirens, it means that the emergency isn't ...

the local sheriff's department would drive around with sirens on and their lights on, indicating that there was severe weather on the way. I don't think that the sirens are overused around my area.” ...