Spain's regional leaders are baronial figures, whose slightest movement involves wailing sirens and limousines.

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Occasionally, a cop car came racing through, sirens wailing.

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Well, inside five minutes 6 police cars arrive, sirens wailing and blue lights flashing and an armed response team crash through the front door-to find our burglar, safe and sound, who they duly arrest.

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Tuesday, ambulances and fire trucks, sirens wailing, streamed onto the wind-whipped peninsula and residents waded through waist-high water to escape with what belongings they could or for those who fled to check on homes that were certainly left with standing water.

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Their wailing mingled with the sirens of ambulances scurrying back and forth along the route to pick up the dozens who fainted.

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Sirens were wailing, and the streets were full of commotion.

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