The Samoa Disaster Management Office says it is hoping to have emergency sirens installed across most of the south coast of Upolu by early next year.
With tourist beach fales rebuilt and back in operation within a year of the destructive 2009 September tsunami, owners have built their own evacuation routes, although they are still waiting on the government to put in emergency sirens.
A Disaster Management spokesperson, Filomena Nelson, says they will be constructing evacuation routes in Saleapaga and Lalomanu and are working on installing sirens.
"Hopefully we will be finalising the procurement before the end of this month. It's just an activation component that we're working on, that we can remotely activate the sirens from Apia, and we'll just have a back up manual switch on site, so that if anything happens to that automated activation at least the manual switch can be switched."
Filomena Nelson says they are also continuing community disaster awareness programmes, and training emergency response teams in each village.
