MADISON, Wis. – Don’t be alarmed if Friday you hear all these sirens in Dane County go off at noon. It’s a backup test after the regular monthly test on Wednesday failed.
“Due to a technical issue, the sirens did not sound as intended,” Andrew Beckett, emergency communications and outreach manager for Dane County Emergency Management, said.
But emergency management officials did not want to comment on what might've caused that technical issue yet, “because we want to wait until we have all the information available through our vendors and through our system data,” Beckett said.
Beckett said they immediately got to reviewing why none of the 144 sirens in the county network made a sound Wednesday.
They tested specific sirens, which confirmed the system was still communicating.
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