Officials in Georgia are begging residents to stop calling 911 over the swarms of cicadas beginning to reemerge after 17 years underground.
The Union County Fire/Rescue and Emergency Management Agency wrote in a Sunday post on Facebook that they had received multiple 911 calls for “alarms” going off.
Most of these alarms were likely the loud “songs” of the Brood X cicadas, the largest brood of the periodical bugs found in much of the eastern United States this summer.
“They also have a range of different sounds they can produce, making them some of the loudest of all insects. It is often difficult to pinpoint where the sound is coming from and can sound like a vehicle or home alarm system. Their song can be loud enough to cause hearing loss as they can produce sounds up to 120 (decibels),” officials wrote.
The first responders requested that residents track down potential alarms that may be going off before contacting authorities.
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Georgia county asks residents to stop calling 911 about cicadas https://t.co/zv1lUMiIxK pic.twitter.com/JaPuzpfp6v
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