- Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 April 2015 15:24
By J.R. Brower
The only Peters Township resident who spoke during the audience comments at the April 13 Peters Township Council meeting was Hackett resident Tom Lovell. His complaint was a siren, located at the top of a nearby hill in a cemetery in the southeast section of Peters Township. It borders Union Township, and the siren is used by the Borough of Finleyville, just a few miles away.
“The thing goes off in the early hours of the morning, anytime during the day and sometimes late in the evening when you least expect it,” said Lovell.
Township Manager Michael Silvestri said that the siren used to by owned and used occasionally for Peters fire calls many years ago, but that it has been operated by the Finleyville Volunteer Fire Department for fire calls since the ‘90s.
“I know,” said Lovell, reiterating his plea in a very polite way by saying, “Since our township owns the siren, there ought to be a way to have something done about it.”
Council members empathized with Lovell, and Silvestri said that both he and Peters Fire Chief Daniel Coyle would talk to the Finleyville fire chief to see what could be done about it.
Contacted several days after the council meeting, Silvestri said, “Finleyville Borough has had this siren unit a long time, but the question is, do we have the authority to have it removed?”
He said since the siren is on Peters property, the possibility is that the township could keep the unit for use in severe emergency situations.
Silvestri concluded, “We have to figure out if we really want to do that.”
