The phrase "fire siren" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a siren specifically used by fire departments or emergency services to alert people of a fire or emergency situation.
Example: "As the fire siren blared through the streets, residents rushed to evacuate their homes."
Alternatives: "fire alarm" or "emergency siren".
They had been concerned about the location on a busy cross street, but as it turns out, the occasional fire siren or horn doesn't wake the baby.
It was, in fact, a fire siren, one of five that alert the 70 volunteers of the Thornwood Fire Department to an emergency.
As a 26-year resident of Rockland County, I was surprised to read the article "Fight Over Fire Siren in Thornwood" [Sept. 3].
"In the 30's and 40's, when the fire siren rang and you were first selectman, you stopped milking your cows and ran to help".
The tidy, one-story boxlike structure, named for its proximity to a church bell and a fire siren, is tucked behind the Boro Bean on the picturesque main street of Hopewell.
Having been a visitor to the town of Thornwood recently (and several times before), I found the article regarding the problem of blaring fire sirens in Westchester (and apparently elsewhere) quite interesting ["Fight Over Fire Siren in Thornwood," Sept. 3].
Here in Clarkstown the fire sirens are placed on the firehouse only.
As a result, the disturbances drawing public ire are not just the jackhammers, car alarms and fire sirens that have long assaulted urban eardrums.
A few minutes later, fire sirens were heard and several engines had to make a broken‐field run against that line of waiting cars to approach a fire scene across the street.
At this recital one heard the familiar fire sirens going past (Mr. Perlman used them as joke material at one point) and, perhaps less prominently than before, the same intermittent subway noises.
She was awakened before dawn on June 22 by the sound of fire sirens and the acrid smell of smoke billowing from her neighbor's home in the Capitol Heights district of Prince George's County.
