The tornado sirens were accidentally activated in Ionia County Saturday afternoon, dispatchers say, as equipment was being moved after a pipe burst Friday at the dispatch center.

Air-raid siren sounds the warning. Air-raid sirens first sounded the warning in London in September 1939. They became an almost daily part of life in the capital a year later during the height of ...

Riders will hear the echo of the siren’s chilling melodies as they ascend an old 160-foot-tall Lake Erie shipping crane tower, the sounds growing more sinister as riders reach the top.