The 10 o’clock nighttime siren is back for all to hear in Whitefish, but the last thing residents expected Tuesday night was a blast that lasted for an entire minute.
It’s been quiet in Whitefish while the new City Hall was under construction. Now that it’s open, the curfew siren — a time-honored tradition for 98 years — is once again an evening ritual.
But it’s not supposed to blare for an entire minute, and the city is working on a fix.
“You may be wondering why the siren is going off so much or why it lasted way too long last night,” Whitefish City Manager Adam Hammatt said in an advisory late Wednesday. “We are trying to work the bugs out of the new system. The new system, evidenced by last night’s long blast, didn’t want to let us set the timing for less than 1 minute.”