NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – Hundreds of Manhattan residents have signed a petition to get Mount Sinai to change its ambulance sirens or at least lower the volume.
Upper West Siders say letters to the hospital system have failed, so Assemblyman Daniel O'Donnell started the petition on Change.org. It has garnered nearly 800 signatures, several hundred shy of its 1,000 goal.
O'Donnell writes that the "volume increase and non-standard use of Mount Sinai's sirens over the past year have become decidedly un-neighborly."
One petition signer said the ambulances use their sirens "at 3 a.m. when the road is totally empty!"
"There's just no reason for this inconsiderate behavior," he wrote.
Another signer simply said: "Mt. Sinai is abusing its siren privileges."
The hospital began using a two-tone, European-style siren back in 2017 because they were believed to be less annoying, according to the New York Post.
The hospital system told the Post that it has responded to O'Donnell and said there's no way to change the volume.
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