Tiburon sirens may sound Nov. 13 after residents couldn’t hear drill alert
- Tyler Callister
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Tiburon’s emergency sirens may sound intermittently between 10 a.m. and noon Nov. 13 as crews perform maintenance in response to residents reporting they couldn’t hear the sirens during last month’s statewide Great ShakeOut earthquake drill.
“We’re just trying to check and make sure everything is working properly,” Emergency Services Coordinator Laurie Nilsen of the Tiburon Police Department said.
She said the maintenance will be conducted on four of the town’s five sirens — those at the downtown Tiburon Boulevard fire station, Del Mar Middle School, the Tiburon Corporation Yard behind Reed Elementary and the Paradise Cove treatment plant near Paradise Beach Park.
A fifth siren at the Paradise Drive fire station is temporarily offline during construction of the new facility, Nilsen said.
The maintenance work is separate from the town’s regular 15-second emergency siren tests at noon Saturdays.
Nilsen encouraged residents to stay informed about emergencies by signing up for alerts at alertmarin.org. Residents who hear sirens during non-test periods should seek emergency information at emergency.marincounty.gov, municipal websites or by tuning to 840 AM radio.
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