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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — While members of the Tongan community in American Samoa are urging their families and friends around the world to keep the people of Tonga in their prayers after the volcano and the tsunami that affected the islands last Friday (Saturday in Tonga), locals are also...

![A woman posted on her Facebook page, “aumaga ‘sirens’ led people to safety vs a multi-million dollar siren system that did nothing.” Luckily the deadly tsunami of 2009 was still fresh enough in memory for people to heed the makeshift warnings and make their way to safety. [SN file photo] Siren being installed](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/siren_system.jpg?itok=dY-tZWiI)