What's with all the noise?
Many of you will have been awakened by our siren sounding a number of times between Saturday and this morning (Monday), and be wondering what's going on.
To give you some background, the siren has been out of commission for many months after the tower on which it was mounted was surveyed and found to be a risk. The replacement pole and siren has finally been installed and was up and running as of Friday evening.
When we receive a call at night, up to 7am, a radio signal is sent to the station at the same time a message is sent to our firefighters’ pagers via another network. At the station a timer starts and if the pager message is not received within 30 seconds the siren sounds as a back-up alert. These pager messages are expected to be received within 15 to 20 seconds.
At 4:20am on Saturday morning the pager message was delayed by just over 30 seconds and at 5:10am this morning the delay was closer to a minute.
To make matters worse, there was another delay for the call at 6:40am this morning and at the same time there was an issue with the systems running our Communications Centre in Wellington. The fixing of these issue inadvertently caused the activation of the sirens of a half dozen volunteer fire brigades around the lower North Island, including us and causing ours to sound twice for this call. Fortunately, we were able to silence it before two more potential activations occurred due to the faults.
Please bear with us while we work through the pager delays with our organisation, and we hope not to wake you too often from here on.
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