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susceptible to electrical interference. In 2014, the
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hospital and intended to upgrade the remainder of the sirens so they had a five-mile (8.0 km) radius to improve on the two-mile radius of the sirens, which were installed in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Local residents objected to this on safety grounds due to there being sixteen
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