Atlantic Police Chief Steve Green reports that on Wednesday, May 13th between 11:00 am and 12:00 pm, residents in the northern part of the city of Atlantic will most likely hear and emergency siren.  Currently, that area of the community is served by three small sirens, some that date to the late 1960’s.  The older sirens are getting more expensive to repair, so Green says they are looking at the possibility of replacing the oldest units with one larger siren that will have more volume and a larger coverage area.

Wednesday morning, a siren company will bring a special truck to town that will lift a test siren into the air to find out if it will provide the same or better coverage than the current units.

Should there be inclement weather, the test will be cancelled.