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Alert siren test scheduled

Hot Springs County Emergency Management Coordinator Bill Gordon would like to remind people south of Thermopolis, in Thermopolis and in Kirby that on Saturday, October 1 at noon, the outdoor alert sirens will be tested.

This test will be the Hi-Lo tone, which is reserved for the very unlikely event of a collapse of Boysen Dam. Though this disastrous event is unlikely, because the dam simply exists makes it necessary that we do what we can to be prepared.

Were it to actually occur you would get calls on your landline phones, cell phones, email, texts, cable TV and radio.

Gordon said there is no better way to receive any such messages than to have a NOAA All Hazard Radio in your home and at work. You can set these radios to alert in the middle of the night at a volume that is sure to wake you up.

So mark your calendar for the outdoor alert sirens that will go off for three minutes at noon on October 1.

 

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