Council Member Helen Rosenthal introduced a bill this month after receiving complaints about the impact of wailing ambulances.
"Emergency sirens are clearly important in alerting people to nearby emergency vehicles that need to quickly navigate the crowded streets of New York," Rivera said. But she says a less traditional sound could still do the job in the city that never sleeps.
Their legislation takes a cue from a Mount Sinai Hospital pilot project. After ambulances lowered the tone of their sirens and used aAccording to The Associated Press, the European-inspired siren, which rings in at 118 decibels, is not any less loud than New York sirens, but it does have a lower frequency that sounds less piercing.
A hearing for the siren measure and discussions on the logistical challenges of implementing it have yet to scheduled, Rosenthal's spokesperson Sarah Crean tells NPR. "It's too early to say whether the bill will pass for sure but there certainly has been a lot of interest in it," Crean says.
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