My village, Beemerville, always blew the siren at noon. Also blew it at 7AM on snowy days if school was cancelled. All us kids prayed to hear that 7AM whistle!! About 40 years ago city people started to move in here. They complained to the town council about the "noise" and the siren stopped being blown for noon and school closings. Now they have stopped it even for fires claiming that all volunteer firefighters will get a notice on their phone. I am one of the Beemerville firemen and I rarely have a phone on me. I mentioned this at a monthly fire department meeting a few years ago and was told to carry my phone (this by the city guys that moved in and now have apparently taken over the fire department). After 50+ years as a Beemerville fireman I resigned. Things around here sure are not what they were like when I grew up.

It usually is at noon unless the the clock got changed some how and no one reset it then it goes off whenever.

Noon siren......swimming pool opens at 1:00...purple feet from stopping at the mulberry tree on the way home from the pool....great memories.

Exactly why they stopped doing it here. There were about 400 people and over a thousand dogs. Once they started howling it took hours for them to shut up !