VIDEO: The City of St. Louis is planning to modernize its 60 emergency system sirens within city limits.
Sarah Russell from the Commission of Emergency Management for the City of St. Louis says not all of the sirens are properly functioning.
“I can tell you that we have one that we’ve been trying to get replaced because it was knocked off a pole, so there is at least one that is not working,” Russell said. “There are a couple of others that had some components that were damaged.”
Not only does the current system look dated, but the aging technology comes with another set of challenges as well.
“We don’t get a system response back to us. It doesn’t respond to us and tell us how it is performing, which is very difficult to be able to tell how a system is performing when it doesn’t tell you that,” Russell said.