Today I read a guest review from a recent guest who described hearing the air raid siren as terrifying. Many visitors do not understand what the siren means when it sounds. In most parts of the world, sirens are used to warn of impending danger, such as a tornado.
While the siren's whaling may not bother most of us who live in Gull Lake, I understand how it must bother visitors. Hopefully, technology will advance to the point where the siren is no longer required to summon the fire department. I started my career as a volunteer in EMS in 1985, and sirens were never used to dispatch ambulance personnel to calls. Maybe it's time to find a better way to dispatch our firefighters to calls.
