FAIRFIELD — City Council members OK'd a plan Tuesday night to buy a new emergency warning siren system for $215,000.

        Council unanimously passed an emergency ordinance authorizing the purchase of the warning system from Mobilcomm of Greenhills. The system will include 10 sirens, each with a one-mile radius. The sirens could be installed as early as December.

        City Manager Art Pizzano said he is glad City Council is being proactive.

        “The planning for this whole new system was well in advance of the recent incident we had in Xenia,” Mr. Pizzano said. “I'm just glad to see our fire chief and fire department have taken these things to heart before they become a problem (here), and that our council's willing to devote the resources to it.”

        Fire Chief Donald Bennett said the city's eight sirens, which were installed in the late 1960s, are outdated.

        The new sirens have battery backup systems and come with a control module that does around-the-clock electronic monitoring of all sirens for things such as power failures.

        “We believe that we've identified a system that's going to be one to allow us to catch up with the growth the city has experienced and take us into the future as well,” Mr. Pizzano said. “And that also represents the state of the art that's out there in terms of reliability.”

        The new sirens will replace all existing sirens.

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