COPLEY — The Copley Township Board of Trustees Sept. 8 responded to residents concerned with a recent announcement on social media that the township’s outdoor tornado sirens ceased operation Sept. 2.
Trustee Bruce Koellner said the township’s current alert system through Regroup — a mass notification system that sends location-based alerts via text, email or push notifications to people in danger zones and replaces traditional, less precise methods like outdoor sirens — is more effective and reaches more residents with specific information than tornado sirens.
Koellner said the township’s outdoor siren system was installed in the 1990s and has always been limited in its reach, based primarily upon where the sirens are located…