Aying equips town hall and fire brigade roofs with sirens

Created: 01/26/2022, 12:20 p.m

By: Wolfgang Rotzsche

Sirens are an important means of being able to warn citizens quickly in an emergency.

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At some point, a siren could wail in the Dürrnhaar district of Ayingen.

And the alarm tone will not call the firefighters into action, because the planned siren is only for civil protection.

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– Aying's municipal council approved that a siren should be installed on the fire brigade garage in Dürrnhaar.

The existing fire protection sirens on the Ayinger town hall and on the Helfendorf fire brigade equipment house are to be replaced.

All three sirens will then run electronically.

This means that the previous motorized sirens have also become obsolete.

Money comes from a special federal funding program

Aying uses a short-term special federal funding program to improve the warning structure.

The municipal administration already submitted a corresponding application last November and received the green light from the government of Upper Bavaria shortly before Christmas.

City hall employee Andrea Dittrich explained to the municipal council that the administration had opted for the roof installation option.

There is a fixed amount of 10,850 euros as a subsidy for each siren location.

Siren exchange was pending anyway

The two existing motorized sirens would have to be replaced anyway due to digital radio, which is why the locations in Aying and Großhelfendorf were chosen.

These sirens can be used for fire brigade alarms as well as for civil protection.

The Dürrnhaar counterpart would be new.

However, this should be used purely for civil protection, which is also the primary goal of the funding.

Everything has to be finished within a year

But the promotion also has a catch.

"We have to order and install the sirens within this year, otherwise we won't get the funding," explained Dittrich.

Especially since there are only six to seven companies on the market that offer such sirens in Germany.

That's why it makes sense to ask around for offers as soon as possible.

Dittrich also inquired about the costs associated with the purchase: "The fixed prices are pretty reasonable." It is conceivable that the municipality would have to add between 2,000 and 3,000 euros per siren location.

Mayor Peter Wagner: "It is important to warn the population."

Mayor Peter Wagner (CSU) emphasized: "It is important to warn the population." The support program was not created for nothing from the experience of the flood disaster in the Ahr Valley.

And sirens are a tried and tested means because they have the appropriate technology that can also be controlled and triggered in extraordinary situations.

"When the siren signal sounds for the population, people know they have to turn on the radio, turn on the television or look at their cell phones to get information from the warning app, for example," explained Wagner, who is an active firefighter himself.

The purchase is "a good thing", even if nobody hopes that these sirens will ever be used.