According to the regional council of Freiburg, there is a great need for renewal.
(BZ / mps). 33 municipalities from the Freiburg administrative district receive funding for their siren systems. As announced by the Regional Council Freiburg (RP), this is the first tranche of the federal siren funding program. In a second tranche at the beginning of 2022, further municipalities will receive funding. “The storm disaster in Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia last summer showed that the need for renewal of siren systems is great,” said District President Bärbel Schäfer. “Many municipalities are in the starting blocks with the upgrading and expansion of their siren systems. That is why I am pleased that the first notifications of funding will arrive in the town halls before Christmas and that implementation can begin promptly.”
In the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, the city of Müllheim receives around 65,000 euros, Auggen around 43,000 euros, Stegen 2,000 euros and Wittnau 1,000 euros. The federal government is making around 11.2 million euros available to the municipalities in Baden-Württemberg for the siren funding program. Both entire siren systems and siren control receivers are funded.
District fire chief Alexander Widmaier and other experts in disaster control see sirens as an important addition to the warning system and rely on the so-called wake-up effect of the siren howl. “Even if you don’t know the individual signals, you should at least turn on the radio when the siren wails or look at a warning app,” Widmaier recently told the BZ. If the howling raises awareness for this, a lot has already been achieved.
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