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Author Message   ReallyTrying Citizen Username: Reallytrying Post Number: 587 Registered: 1-2003 Posted on Monday, January 24, 2005 - 1:35 pm:        On Sat. night, during the snow, at about 7 pm, we heard a long siren - must have gone on for 2 or 3 minutes. Did anyone else hear it? Did it mean anything?   LilLB Citizen Username: Lillb Post Number: 362 Registered: 10-2002 Posted on Monday, January 24, 2005 - 1:38 pm:        I heard it too! The State of Emergency went into effect at 8pm, so I figured it wasn't that because it went off earlier - around 7pm (and they probably don't even sound the siren for that). I've never heard that kind of (long) siren for a fire before.   gretchen Citizen Username: Gretchen Post Number: 151 Registered: 8-2001 Posted on Monday, January 24, 2005 - 6:41 pm:        I thought that kind of siren meant that volunteer fire fighters or EMT people were asked to report for duty. My brother used to be a volunteer fire fighter in NJ and that was how they were called in.   LilLB Citizen Username: Lillb Post Number: 367 Registered: 10-2002 Posted on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 10:31 am:        I know where I used to live, they had sirens that did that -- they'd have different codes too, to indicate whether it was a house fire, car fire, etc. I don't think any of our firefighters are volunteer here in Maplewood, but the EMTs probably are. But, this was different - it was a single long siren. I've never heard that before in my 3 1/2 years here in Maplewood.