u/Acceptable-Salad5984

i'm not sure if this is the same everywhere, but where i am from, each town's fire department has a big air raid siren. it goes back to when fire departments didn't have pagers and they needed to let volunteer firefighters know that there is a fire.

to this day, they still sound the department's siren whenever there is a fire. most, if not all, departments in my area also sound their siren every day at 12 noon.

it is very common for small and rural towns to use volunteers for their fire departments. however, i was born and raised in a suburban town on long island, which is about an hour outside of nyc, so i find it kind of weird we still use the same system.

is anyone else's town like this?