| |
Siren wails
• AM I alone in remarking on the extraordinary increase in the use of sirens by the emergency services?
There was a time when the occasional and remarkable wail of an ambulance, fire engine or police car would transfix pedestrian and motorist alike, alerting them to a significant crisis.
Today we are presented with an incessant Wagnerian chorus of frenzied sirens, a 24/7 ear-splitting cacophony that jangles the nerves and dulls the senses.
There is barely a moment in the day or night when the air is not rent by their panic screams.
What, one wonders, is the reason for this aural overkill? A soaring rise in crime, fires and injuries? What are the guidelines handed out to the drivers? Ironically, the result of constant exposure to alarms is to render them commonplace.
KEN HOWARD
Arkwright Road, NW3
|
 |
|
| |
