Sheriff’s vehicles get evac sirens

The Butte County Sheriff’s Office has installed evacuation sirens in its patrol vehicles following last year’s Camp Fire, which caused more than 50,000 people to flee Paradise and surrounding communities.

Every marked Sheriff’s Office patrol vehicle has been equipped with a European-style “high-low” siren that will alert neighborhoods of an evacuation order, the Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday (July 23) in a news release.

Following the Camp Fire and 2017’s Oroville Dam spillway crisis, Sheriff Kory Honea said, “we’ve been working to try and increase our ability to notify as many people as possible of a pending emergency.”