Montreal to conduct annual siren test today

CBC News

· Posted: May 09, 2025 7:28 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

The City of Montreal and nine plants equipped with nationalist alert sirens volition coordinate an alert siren trial connected Friday between 8:30 a.m. and noon.

"The purpose of this simulation workout is to rise consciousness among the colonisation surviving adjacent these facilities and to pass them of however to support themselves successful the lawsuit of an incidental involving the merchandise of a toxic product," wrote the City of Montreal successful a property merchandise sent to CBC on Friday morning.

"The workout besides serves to validate the due cognition of instrumentality and the readiness of each exigency responders."

The 9 participating plants will emit a rising and falling dependable lasting 3 minutes, which volition beryllium heard implicit the imaginable vulnerability radius. The City says residents should instrumentality screen indoors erstwhile they perceive the alarm.

In the lawsuit of a existent oregon imminent concern accident, added the City, the triggering of the informing siren volition beryllium followed by the broadcasting of messages via assorted connection tools, which could see societal media, the City's Avis et alertes system, the Sécurité civile's automated telephone work and the Québec En Alerte connection system.

The tests are being conducted on a predetermined schedule.

For much information, residents are encouraged to sojourn the city's website astir the release of toxic substances.

The database of factories tin beryllium found here.