Fire siren activations
The fire sirens throughout town are set-up to alert
members of the community, and of the FVFD of an emergency requiring an
immediate response by the fire dept. Many times people ask
why the fire sirens cycle once, and other times cycle as many as
four times. Well here is the reason; the number of siren
activations (cycles) is based on the nature of the emergency.
1 Cycle is for an injury motor vehicle accident, aka mva.
2 Cycles are for vegetation fires, or "other" types of fires.
4 Cycles are for possible & or confirmed structure fires,
12 Cycles are for a city wide emergency, with the specifics being
advised over the public address (PA) systems of emergency vehicles.
All information pertaining to the emergency call is paged to the fire dept members via alpha numeric pagers. These pagers advise
of the nature, location, and any additional information about the
emergency. For emergency medical calls, the sirens
are not activated, all information is sent via the pagers,
to reduce the frequency in usage of the fire sirens.
The next time you hear the fire sirens, there is an
emergency is progress, and the fire dept will be responding with
multiple emergency vehicles to the location of the
emergency. All emergency medical calls are paged via
the alpha numeric pagers, to help reduce the number of times the fire
sirens are activated. Please remember, as with any
emergency vehicle traveling Code-3 (Emergency lights and sirens),
please pull over to the right to allow the emergency vehicles to have
the right of way, who knows they may be responding to an emergency of a
friend or family member.