{"id":2450972,"date":"2019-11-11T22:08:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T05:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/the-history-behind-aspens-noon-siren\/"},"modified":"2019-11-12T08:04:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T15:04:38","slug":"the-history-behind-aspens-noon-siren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/the-history-behind-aspens-noon-siren\/","title":{"rendered":"The history behind Aspen\u2019s noon siren"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Perhaps, if Michael Dobson understood the reason for the \u201cair raid signal\u201d at noon each day, he might be more understanding of the choice between church bells and a fire siren (<a id=\"N0x1b86bc0N0x1ab29e0:N0x1b86bc0N0x1c97d00\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/doves-over-hawks\/\">\u201cDoves over hawks,\u201d<\/a> letters, Nov. 10, aspentimes.com).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In Aspen\u2019s history is the story! Historically, the siren was rung only for a fire alert to call the volunteers when needed to fight a fire. Unfortunately, once, when needed for a fire call, the siren malfunctioned, and the fire alarm did not ring to call the volunteers needed to put out the fire. Following that incident, the alarm was set to ring each day at noon to assure the firemen and the community that the siren was working, and that the volunteers would be notified when needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The value of the fire siren in a community that depends on a volunteer fire department has for years been understood and welcomed by the Aspen community. Church bells are nice, too, but they serve a different need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Dorothea Farris<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Crystal Valley<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/the-history-behind-aspens-noon-siren\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps, if Michael Dobson understood the reason for the \u201cair raid signal\u201d at noon each day, he might be more understanding of the choice between church bells and a fire siren (\u201cDoves over hawks,\u201d letters, Nov. 10, aspentimes.com). In Aspen\u2019s history is the story! Historically, the siren was rung only for a fire alert to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2450972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 00:02:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450984,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450972\/revisions\/2450984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}