The Sound Around Town: Sometimes Wanted, Sometimes Not

This photo taken of the West Brookfield, Massachusetts town hall on October 29, 2023, shows a Federal Signal air raid siren on the roof. A similar one was on the roof of a building in nearby Warren, Mass.

This news story from the Telegram & Gazette, written on October 13, 2020, says that the siren had been active and was being sounded at the request of town residents at 6:15 p.m. each day, but malfunctioned one morning and sounded inadvertently at 5 a.m. It was then disconnected when this occurred, and it is unknown if it was ever reconnected.

Many town halls in Massachusetts, including Dedham and Provincetown, once had sirens on their roofs, probably due to those buildings being the highest in those towns. Both of those have since been removed.

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