[TheList] Volunteer sirens

Mon Feb 28 10:39:24 AEDT 2022

Ours in Waimangaroa still operates 24/7.  It’s recently been refurbished
and is now 10 times louder than it used to be. Apparently neighbours have
complained about it so it’s been set to a 1min time out instead of the
previous 3mins, but no one seems too concerned if complaints continue, it’s
an emergency siren, and you’d have to be a bit sad to complain about it in
my opinion. My thoughts are, you knew the station was there when you
brought your house, so deal with it.  If it was my house on fire, I’d
prefer to hear the siren so I knew help was coming. But some like to
complain for the sake of complaining. I am a previous NCO too.

Mike

On Mon, 28 Feb 2022 at 12:09 PM, DogSecurity - Richard <
richard at dogsecurity.co.nz> wrote:

> Until recently I'd been doing noise control for many many years.. we were
> always told that we wouldn't be sent to jobs for that. The noise is
> measured by highly scientific tools called Left ear and Right ear (not by
> decibel measuring equipment - who knows where the idea came from that we'd
> use those, it isn't practical for starters) and so usually by time we
> arrived, the noise would have stopped.. and in any case we use our
> discretion. However it's subjective... in my eyes a bar playing loud music
> at 2am is no different to a tractor outside someones House at 2am. The
> tractor isn't as loud as the bass, they're two different types of noise...
> but to me both would still get a direction issued. Others would see that,
> well... you chose to live near a bar/farm.. that's your issue.
>
> Local councils follow the RMA law, there's no law saying sirens are exempt
> or not exempt. There's no requirement for us as NCOs to follow how the
> councils themselves specifically want to do things either. Huntly and
> Ngaruawahia weren't silenced at night. I'm temporarily in Rangiora and it
> is.
> Richard
> ------------------------------
> Sent from a mobile device. Please excuse my brevity, punctuation and
> spelling.
>
>
> On 28 February 2022 10:19:50 am NZDT, Brendan Sheehy <
> shiters_r_us at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Some still activate some are set on a delay timer.
>>
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>> *Subject:* [TheList] Volunteer sirens
>>
>> Just a question that came up in discussion a few days ago.
>> It was suggested that volunteer fire sirens around NZ are now silenced at
>> night due to local council noise bylaws.
>> It has been ten years since I lived in a small rural town which had a
>> volunteer station so I don't know if their siren still goes off at night or
>> not.
>> What's the situation? Is this correct?
>>
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