BELLS REPLACE SIRENS
Lower Hutt Fire Engines Replacing the sirens on its engines with bells, the Lower Hutt City Fire Brigade has fallen into line with the action taken, by the Wellington 1' ire Brigade. Furthermore, it no longer uses the station siren at night to call volunteer firemen from their homes. These firemen can now be called by a bell and telephone, but Superinterndent Hume said the station siren was still necessary in the daytime to cal! them from widely-scattered places of work and business. In the past, a rising and falling siren note had been used to gain carrying distance, Unit as there was a possibility of this broken note being mistaken for an emergency warning a steady note would be used in future. The siren signalling system for E.P.b. purposes was still below requirements in the Hutt Valley, he said, but additional sirens and signals were being installed and more would be added immediately they were obtainable.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19420121.2.67
Bibliographic details
Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 99, 21 January 1942, Page 8
Word Count
160BELLS REPLACE SIRENS Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 99, 21 January 1942, Page 8
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in