Waverley firefighters drop siren for personal phone alerts after social media harassment
New Zealand Herald · Noam Mānuka Lazarus ·
The volunteer brigade attended 12 calls in October, including six medical incidents.
Some Bay of Plenty firefighters switched over in 2020, and Pāpāmoa silenced its siren last year.
Waverley’s volunteer firefighters were now dependent on constant cellular connection under the new system, Lennox said.
The brigade also made changes to how it shares its incident reports.
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