By Andrea Ramey
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July 2, 2021
MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) — It's called Digital Siren, and it lets you know if you're within two miles of a police chase. Patrol cars throughout Mobile County are now equipped with the technology. When the chase starts, the officer hits a button. Within seconds, your phone gets an alert. "This is the best thing that I've seen in all the years I've been monitoring car chases, to where we can at least do everything we know that we can do to try to protect the public and innocent people," said Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran. It's meant to stop tragedies like the one last year in Thomasville. Megan Brunson, her 5--year-old daughter Ava, and her mother Wanda were hit head-on and killed by a suspect fleeing an officer in a chase. Mobile Chief of Staff James Barber credited NBC 15's Andrea Ramey as the catalyst for bringing this life-saving technology to the area.