When a fire breaks out in Oyster Bay overnight, volunteer firefighters are alerted to the blaze. A text is sent. A radio relays the information. Then a loud fire horn blares through the hamlet. The ...

On Monday, the fire department did a monthly test of the siren system.

I don’t mean the whoop-whoop or the whump-whump of fire engines trying to carve a path through oblivious Central Jersey traffic (though, despite the blood pressure meds, my journalist heart quickens ...

ST. LOUIS — The City of St. Louis will test the storm siren system again Wednesday afternoon as the St. Louis Fire Department continues the transition into control of the system. The test will begin ...