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City Of Jackson Reviewing Number Of Warning Sirens

April 29, 2025 Steve Schwaller

(Jackson, Mn.)– City officials in Jackson say they’re looking into the possibility of doing away with one of the town’s five warning sirens.

As we reported previously, it was recently discovered three of those sirens are currently inoperable, including one at Westridge Drive that’s been out of commission since last year. That siren is being replaced altogether. Emergency Management Coordinator Grant Landbo says a vendor will be contacted about repairing the other two currently not working. After that he says another test will be conducted and at that point they could decide whether all five sirens are actually needed…

“The advantage we have is that the city of Jackson is in a valley. So where the other sirens are placed kind of ripples through, the acoustics bounce around the valley and we have really good coverage, so there’s a chance that having all five of those sirens is overkill and isn’t going to make much of a difference in the coverage. And if you think about where the liquor store is in relation to the siren by the hospital and Agco, you know there’s not much distance in between those. So we’re confident that just those four sirens will provide good coverage in the city.”

Landbo again reminds everyone the sirens are intended as OUTDOOR warning systems only. He urges everyone to have multiple ways of getting weather warnings and emergency messages such as cell phones, radio’s and tv’s, and NOAA weather radios.

Landbo was a guest recently on sister station KKOJ’s “Morning Juice” program.

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