Shit was fucking annoying… it was 3:30 in the morning, my weather said rainy, and my sleepy ass had to question my sanity that a tornado could even be here.
Sounds like it had the typical 2020 local keypad issue. However what confuses me is that how batteries are to blame here, usually batteries wouldn’t cause anything to make noise if they were low charge
I just want to know why they sound different. And do the different sounds mean different emergencies. And if they do, what siren means what emergency. It was really scary to hear the siren and it not sounding like the normal weather siren. If anyone knows, I’d appreciate a comment.
They use Whelen R4s which have a bunch of selectable tones since they’re electronic and are essentially rotating speakers. They usually use alert which is the flat tone but the malfunction caused it to use the attack/fast wail tone. The Fort Worth ones are the same model and use regular wail instead but the malfunction on Halloween made them use Hi-lo.
The alert tone is used by benbrook for anything weather related and the attack tone would be for a homeland security attack. The hi-lo is for fires I believe.
Shit was fucking annoying… it was 3:30 in the morning, my weather said rainy, and my sleepy ass had to question my sanity that a tornado could even be here.
Burleson (south of Fort Worth) is switching all of their sirens from Whelen to Federal Signal.
This part of the city should switch to Federal Signal and do a complete System replacement and get new 2001-130s to replace Whelen's Vortex R4s
I live 200ft from a benbrook R4 and even on normal test days it’s so quiet
My understanding is the FS 508’s are louder and have better radius
Sounds like it had the typical 2020 local keypad issue. However what confuses me is that how batteries are to blame here, usually batteries wouldn’t cause anything to make noise if they were low charge
Yeah been hearing them. Smh.
Oh my how messed up. It is horrible to be woken up in the dark and not see the sky or anything around you.
How do you screw up so bad that the sirens themselves just turns on during the night
I just want to know why they sound different. And do the different sounds mean different emergencies. And if they do, what siren means what emergency. It was really scary to hear the siren and it not sounding like the normal weather siren. If anyone knows, I’d appreciate a comment.
They use Whelen R4s which have a bunch of selectable tones since they’re electronic and are essentially rotating speakers. They usually use alert which is the flat tone but the malfunction caused it to use the attack/fast wail tone. The Fort Worth ones are the same model and use regular wail instead but the malfunction on Halloween made them use Hi-lo.
The alert tone is used by benbrook for anything weather related and the attack tone would be for a homeland security attack. The hi-lo is for fires I believe.
Not a battery issue
Ah yes “malfunctioning”. Because we can’t just admit wen someone has found a way to prank the city.
Wow a new siren video
This is ridiculous. They need to work on their sirens
Oooooh.... someone must have gotten fired and is taking revenge. Lmfao nice. Batteries don't make the sirens go off.
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