My husband and some of my students are sensitive to sound and recently there have been so many sirens in NYC. Just nonstop. It's not the police or fire ... it's these ambulances, some of them aren't official but they have highway level sirens and use them on residential streets.

Is there some kind of community org that works to stop noise pollution?

Sirens are designed to penetrate the sound insulation of cars on the highway. But we do not live on a highway. It's too loud.

McNadoMD

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the other question is why are they running hot? Emergent responses are rarely indicated because the average time difference is a minute or two, and patient outcomes tend to be the same.

March 15, 2026 at 11:54:47 PM
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