Records: Highland tornado siren inspections likely lapsed after fire chief’s death

Records: Highland tornado siren inspections likely lapsed after fire chief’s death

The Highland Fire Department resumed testing their tornado sirens in April after a tornado tore through town in March, but whether it had been prior to that storm is doubtful. After residents complained that they either heard sirens faintly or not at all before and during the March 19 storm, town officials reached out to Lake County E-911 to test them, according to an email the Post-Tribune received as part of an April 30 Access to Public Record…