New Jersey Borough Settles Siren Suit
A New Jersey borough has settled a contentious lawsuit over the location of two new fire sirens.
Gerard Misk, an attorney and an Englewood Cliffs school board member, filed the suit against the borough of Englewood Cliffs last December seeking to block the installation of the sirens. The sirens are used to notify volunteer firefighters of an alarm.
Misk claimed the sirens violate the state’s Noise Control Law, and that the awarding of the contract to install the sirens was improper. His home is adjacent to the location where one of the sirens was planned.
The settlement calls for the relocation of the sirens and for the borough to pay Misk’s legal fees, totaling $9,819. According to Fire Chief George Drimones, the department still needs the sirens due to concerns over the reliability of their pagers.
