The Municipality of Kincardine is set to test its Public Alert Sirens on Wednesday, July 12th between 9 and 11 am.
The nine public alert sirens are owned by the Municipality and setup within 3 kilometers of the Bruce Power nuclear generating station.
They are meant to alert the public of an incident at the Bruce Power site.
The test is to confirm the activation and the function of the system.
The system is activated by the Municipality of Kincardine on behalf of Bruce Power and the Province of Ontario.
They will also be testing their Alert FM & Kincardine Alert (RAVE) system on July 11th. The latter is a text and e-mail notification system that you can sign up for at the link below.
https://www.getrave.ca/smart911/ref/login.action?pa=kincardine
During this test the details about the Siren test will also be provided.
They play an important part of the emergency preparedness process.
For further information on the Sures, Kincardine Alert and AlertFM you can contact Shane Watson, Community Emergency Management Co-ordinator at 519-396-2141 ext. 4 or swatson@kincardine.ca