Fire House Siren! West Brownsville Volunteer Fire Department House Siren Complete Rotation
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- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2020
- House siren activation for an emergency call. West Brownsville Volunteer Fire Department in Pennsylvania got dispatched for a run. This is Station 61 just south of Pittsburgh in a small town by the Monongahela River. The fire house siren is on top of the station in downtown. I was driving by when they got a run so I recorded the siren. I am interested in fire departments and fire trucks since I was a volunteer firefighter for Goshen Fire Department in Ohio and paid by the run for Prestonsburg Fire Department in Kentucky. That was years ago before I worked for the health department. It is cool to see fire departments still using the house siren for calls since most departments quit doing that years ago. It is out dated technology and not really needed anymore. They were originally used to notify fire fighters that they had a run. When firemen started getting dispatched by pagers most departments turned off the house siren. Pagers are now outdated and most firemen just use radios. This town is cool because it has a railroad that runs 6 tenths of a mile right down the middle of Main Street! Norfolk Southern uses the line to ship coal. My plan was to film a street running train but none went by while I was there. I was there for 19 hours over a 2 day period waiting to film a train. Coal has just about dried up. Last year I spent about the same amount of time at Natural Tunnel , Virginia waiting to film a coal train and none went by in the light. I remember when coal was king. Anyway, I filmed the town of West Brownsville and a couple barges on the river. I don't know if I will post the video. I have a list of places that I want to film and street running trains in West Brownsville was at the top of the list. I will return again this year and stay as long as needed and film a street running train here even if it is at 3am. Before I came, I watched videos on RUclips that said there are 19 trains a day here and one railfan said there is a train every hour. Yeah, right. Oh well, at least I got to record a fire house siren. They got 2 runs while I was here and both times they used the siren and only one person showed up and took their task unit truck to the calls by himself. Two sources told me that this siren is a Federal Sign & Signal Model 5. I remember when I was a volunteer the house siren was really cool. We would be hanging around the station playing pool or just talking. All of a sudden the tones would drop for a run and if it was for our department on the second part of the tone, the house siren would kick on and everyone would get their equipment on and fight for the best spots on the trucks. Lol. My favorite was to ride on the tailboard which is now outlawed in Ohio. One time I was on the tailboard and it was just me and old Smoke Fagin. As the truck pulled out of the station parking lot, Smoke Fagins leg fell off. He was pretty old and had a false leg. Got more stories where that came from! Filmed June 29, 2020.
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Would love to see the train running down the street! Volunteer Fire Departments staffed by great people are a staple of communities across the US :)
I tried my best to film a train there. I got a motel and spent 2 days waiting and nothing moved. It's 271 miles one way but I will return. That is on the very top of my list. I'm going to Cass, West Virginia in a couple weeks and then I am returning to West Brownsville and I won't leave until I film 2 trains there, no matter how many days it takes. I was disappointed but not as disappointed as last fall when I tried to film a train going through Natural Tunnel, Virginia. 3 days with 2 nights in a motel and only 2 trains went through and both were at night and there wasn't any light to film them. West Brownsville Pa. has street lights so I can at least film one there. The people in the town were nice also. A couple of them knew who I was. Lol
@@JawTooth - I think we overlook the time and effort you put in to get these videos - much appreciated!
@@brianhickey5949 Sometimes I get lucky though. I wish I would have been at these places a few years back before the coal died down. I don't give up though. I will return to West Brownsville for sure. Natural Tunnel gets most of their trains ( which isn't much anymore ) at night but once a year they run a locomotive through the tunnel and let people look at it and walk into the tunnel. I'm thinking about doing that next year. Thanks for watching! I appreciate you watching and commenting
And Canada!!
the sound is very relaxing to me, and i have some key memories of me and some friends hanging out and having this come on it’s ethereal
My town stopped using the sirens in 2010 and all but two were removed. They had switched to just pagers and text messages. In 2017, when someone had passed away, they blew the sirens as a final farewell to the guy. Amazingly, one flick of the switch and both roared to life. A glorious final blow out to a good guy.
What town?
Your town made a big mistake getting rid of your fire station's sirens. It shoukd be reinstated OUT OF NECESSITY!!!!!
My man are you talking about the 7A and STH-10 in Stanhope?
In Germany we use Siren too for our volunteer firefighters
"There's nothing stronger then the heart of a volunteer."
Absolutely best job ever im a volunteer firefighter in Pennsylvania best job I’ve ever had I’ve been with my station for 3 months best job ever and the greatest people ever to be with
@@LehighCountyFireVideography I'm a not-so-active anymore volunteer on the other side of PA from you. I put in many years as a volunteer before time got short,. I still hold the volunteers that I respond with with very high regards.
And. nothing louder than a siren either..(reply to EMTrailfan s above post).
After 20 years of being out of the volunteer fire service. When I heard fire house sires going off, my adrenaline still gets pumping. What a rush. Jay Township Elk County, Pennsylvania sire is still in use and many of the fire companies in Pennsylvania are still in use. Thank you for sharing.
I wish we still had them in use where I live but we have none in use in Southeast Ohio. I use to be able to hear 4 of them from my home in Goshen, Ohio when I was a volunteer. That was one of the most exciting things about being a firefighter back in the day. That and riding on the tailboard flying over railroad crossings. lol
I remember that siren. I heard it go off once when I was spending the night at a friend's house when he was still living in West Brownsville with his dad.
Thanks for posting, I use to be with a department in Riverdale Maryland back in the 70's and we had a siren. It would sound one long blast for an ambulance call, and three blast for a fire call. I would hustle on my bike to the station hoping to at least get a position on the back step if the buckets were filled. Great old days lost to time but memories will live.
Very cool! That was when I was on Goshen Fire Dept in Ohio. I liked the tailboard the most and besides, the senior firemen usually took all the seats in the trucks to play with the sirens and radios. lol
PG is and was an amazing vol system.
I live 3 houses away from the VFD in my town. Most of the time when it sounds late at night it wakes me up as it's very loud. If it doesn't, my dog howling like crazy in the living room finishes the job every time.
sounds like a nightmare
These types of sirens are awesome in tornado situations. Wish my fire companies in my town would use them
I remember as a kid, the station down the street from my parents' house used one of these to call the volunteers. Many years later (during pager days, pre-cell phone) I volunteered out of that same station, sometimes working overnight on the rescue squad. Thanks for the memories!
Fire station 1 minute down the street from my house I thought it was a freaking Purge about to happen
I was the firefighter that responded that walked. Across the street from my home that day by myself
Awesome! I think its cool that you still use the house siren. I was a firefighter in Ohio and Kentucky and ours were turned off unfortunately back in the early 90s
@@JawTooth I still live across the street from the firehouse and still active in all calls we have using the whistle for as long as I can remember
@@billsieffert4274 That is awesome. None of the departments that I know of in southern Ohio use them for calls. At one time I could hear 4 house sirens from my home. I live near Cincinnati so I don't know about the eastern part of Ohio
Music to my ears... can't remember how many times growing up jumping into the pick-up with my Dad racing to the firehouse he served 57 years ....I'm in my 40th now.
Awesome to hear congrats ! This sound just woke me up
Our town has this siren as well, a Model 5. They don’t use it anymore; instead, they replaced it with a Whelen WPS 2805
In my county in VA, the local storm sirens double as alert sirens for the VFD's. In my town specifically they only sound the siren between 6 AM and 8 PM out of respect for the residents, but during the day that, pagers, radios and text alerts all work together to alert the departments if there is a call. Anything that's not a medical run, the sirens get sounded.
Brian, this is a Federal Signal Model 5. 12 port. The signal, just as NECRailfan505 said, is attack, which is used most of the time for fires or severe thunderstorm warnings. During World War II and the Cold War, Attack was used for Civil Defense.
Our department stopped using the siren in the mid 2000's because the pagers went to digital and many new residents complained..so it was removed from the pole behind the station. I actually have the hood/ cover and it looks like a dome.... gonna convert it to a BBQ/ smoker for the patio at the station.
don't you love it when people bitch about a siren being there even though it's there for their public safety and the safety of their neighbors? It's always like the people who buy or build a house next to an airport and then complain about the noise that airplanes make! give me a break
Awesome! A piece of history
@@JawTooth yes sir.....I'll send you a picture of it if you want
I just had one happen
It depends on where you go, but fire whistles are still really common on the east coast. Lots of them in PA, VA, DE etc. I’m from kansas and while the majority of departments including my own don’t use them anymore, there are still quite a few in kansas and Nebraska that do including the town I work in. It’s a good backup as it is easy to leave the house and forget the pager. Also warns the town to look out for firemen responding.
Fire department sirens are long into the past where I live Josh Burger but I do remember them way long ago when I was a juvenile
@@robertmoir5695 My department quit using ours right before I was born. My grandma's town still uses theirs and I remember going to her house and hearing it go off and watching the fire trucks leave town. Same thing with the town I work in.
Bill: The Guy that casually walks from his house to his job across the street during a fire call.
My home town still uses the house siren for fire calls too! Actually they use both the towns sirens for both fire calls and tornado warnings and also set them off for one long blast every day at noon
Thats my brother! So proud of him!
Awesome siren. Keep up the good work Jawtooth. Great video.
Thanks!
If you're gonna wait around until 3 AM to film for us then let me e-mail you a virtual thermos of coffee :) Thanks for providing us very cool videos.
Thanks Bill! I will return and catch a train there no matter what. lol
Cool! The town I grew up in had the same kind, they would sound it at 12:00 noon every day. I haven't been up that way for awhile don't think they do it anymore. Thanks for sharing Jawtooth!
Very cool!
I like the last round - short round. Thats what was originally specified by Federal. My department had the same thing. A short quick wind up and down - then 5 long cycles and then a short at the end to signify it was the last round. My department has 4 sirens. One on each station and 2 pole sirens to expand coverage. When the whether is right and you can hear all 4 it sounds amazing !
Neat video. God bless our volunteer firefighters, all firefighters and other first responders for that matter, in our communities. I know of some who either were (he left my neck of the woods a few years ago due to work opportunities elsewhere) or presently are. Great people all around
Right on
My home town still has one. I think it is primarily used for a civil defense like for tornadoes and stuff now
Yes, that is what most of them are for now.
It used to piss me off to get awakened by that noise.
The department has pagers and Active 911 or one of the other similar programs.
The stl 10 and Sth-10 I hear all the time for fires, now only the stl goes off the Sth-10 does weather warnings only
We still use air horns 145dB in Sweden for part time and voluntary fire stations. Some only normally daytime, but all personnel have digital pagers and SMS-call also. We use alternating two-tone to gather personell and can also give other signals for call all for "total alarm" when not in duty or when paging isn't working. Also for alerting people on "Important Message to the Public" with 7 seconds on and 14 off for 2 minutes, to go indoors and listen to broadcasts and SMS. Used for severe threats and accidents or civil defense actions.
But this one you showed is sounding more lovely! I wish I can get a Chrysler-Bell Victory, Firepower Hemi powered, Air-Raid Siren and put it on a tower at my home to call my kids up to 40 miles away! :D Thank for this post, Brian! (and a great 5th of July! LOL)
When the U.S. Weather Bureau made its report of the 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak in the great lakes states, they recommended that civil defense sirens that were installed to summon firemen & warn of enemy attack be used to warn of tornadoes. Civil defense sirens had been used to warn of tornadoes in " tornado alley " states for a few years & had been found to be effective.
It's an interesting video after all
the sirens startle me
Memories come up.
Greetings Elfi
And then siren head
@@rushylvania.northern I had someone tell me to look up Siren Head. I never heard of him before
@@JawTooth that's believable
I'm putting one of these on my garage. Call the kids home for dinner!
New music at the start nice to change things up . I love the video Jaw !
The house siren is nice. They still use here in Butlerville right down the road from Pleaseant Plain Oh.
Do they use it on every fire run? Butlerville is close to Goshen and they stopped using theirs in the mid 80s but they still use it for tornado warnings.
@@JawTooth they still use the siren on calls. While the radios is still the main use the siren still goes as well.
In Baltimore County, Md there are quite a few volunteer companies that still use the " house siren" to alert members to calls. In other counties in Md " house sirens" are also used . I am glad that those sirens are still active for the members that don't have pagers.
I'm kind of surprised that so many departments still use the house siren for calls. There are none left in my area
Awesome that old siren is still being used today and still working. It sure is loud enough for everyone to hear.
Happy 4th of July Alan!
@@JawTooth You too Jaw
Growing up in a small town in upstate N.Y. we had one on our firehouse, good memories Jaw Tooth
What town was it I may know it
Reminds me of the old movie testament that came out in the 80's where they were nuked by a missle & most survivors fell sick and passed away from the radiation that contaminated food, water agriculture & the ground. But this video is neat! I use a siren app on my phone for alarms & notifications. The only alarms that will wake me up! Lol. I will add this to my sound recorder as well! Thanks for sharing! 😃
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Kindest regards from over the pond in the uk 🇬🇧
Welcome aboard! Thanks for watching!
Slowly goin through all ya vidoes..
Love it.. But wait there's more. 😂
Federal Sign & Signal Model 5. That signal is called attack, and most of the time used for fires or severe thunderstorm warnings. When WW2 and The Cold War was happening, this was used as an air raid signal.
I also must point out that in 2:51 in you're maysville video there was a Siren.
Cool, thanks for the information!
@@JawTooth You're welcome!
This might actually be a Model 7 as it winds up a bit faster.
Love that sound!
Trexlertown Fire Company uses their STH-10 for fire calls. However, it's locked out from going off during overnight hours.
My fire department still activates our fire siren. It is located behind the fire hall and is used for all calls except for EMS because they have their own station. We have an STH-10 and house 6 units that are in service. The station is located in Dansville, NY.
Lemoore fire we have the same siren, but it only goes off during structure fires or gas leaks or hazardous material. We have the siren and we have our pages. I’ve been with the department 33 years firefighter EMT.
Smitty SF-3751
Back when, in the late 50's and early 60's. in Saint James, Long Island, New York. Being a volunteer fireman, I was taught how to drive a standard shift, never new a transmission could make such awful noises and two guys had to go to the dentist, but it was fun for an 18 year old. Was also on the racing team.
Nice video! Cant get enough of the sound of a model 5
Same here!
My little town in Northeast Ohio still uses fire sirens we have three of them in town one at the station another at the west end of town and north end of town
Pretty cool Jawtooth! I like old air raid and tornado sirens. Gotta love nostalgia. I wish I had the time to railfan. Theres probably so many cool spots that I don't even know about. I spent a few days at Natural Tunnel a couple years back and every time I would hear one come on the radio, I'd try to get down to the tunnel but would miss it. And the time I spent down at the bottom there were no trains. However the Tunnel lighting at night was really cool to see. I'd love to engineer or conduct trains through Appalachia. I could never figure out how you get those jobs.
I had a lot of bad luck at Natural Tunnel for some reason. A few years ago a train was coming through the tunnel with 3 Heritage units leading it. Right when the engines came out of the tunnel, my camera froze up. Last year when I returned I spent 3 days trying to film a train there and only 2 went by and they were both at night. That is the only location that I think I will give up on. I will return to West Brownsville and try to get a train there.
I'm a vol fire fighter in the Pittsburgh area mostly all still have sirens
Do you think they are no longer needed but kept for nostalgia and to remind everyone in earshot that the fire department is giving up time with the family?
I'm not sure. But years ago the fire whistle was a series of horn blasts depending on the pattern of the horn blast it would tell you what street it was on
@@hotshot0076 interesting!
Thats cool that they still use them for fire runs. Cincinnati area no longer uses them. I remember living in Goshen, Ohio and I could hear 4 house sirens from different departments from my home.
@@JawTooth if you're ever in the area I'd like to meet you. Same with Alan and quacky Louis I've sent the email saying that if they're in the area but never heard anythingbut you're in Ohio if you're ever around the Pittsburgh area even Altoona or whatever or even somewhere in Ohio near the Pennsylvania line shoot me an email and I'd like to meet you sometime you can reach me at hotshot15215@gmail.com
Howdy ,thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Our town has one, it's very loud and haunting especially on gloomy days or at night when it's set off
where i live in North Dakota we have a house siren at our local volunteer fire department and it goes off whenever EMS or the fire department has to respond to a crash outside of town
I was a volunteer firefighter, I had never heard our siren sound after I became a rookie firefighter in 1991.
Watching this I seem to remember fire sirens and whistles from various places where I lived during the late 40s and during the 50s. Sometimes they'd sound off in patterns to indicate where the fire was.
Wow, that is cool! I did not know that they did that. Someone else said in there town they made one rotation for EMS and 3 rotations for fire runs
@@JawTooth These were more toots than rotations from what I remember.
That is interesting. I miss hearing them. I keep my scanner on all the time though
Outstanding.........................
Thank you!
I remember one day years ago in the hamlet I used to live in. Was making a purchase at the equipment to store which was beside the Quonset that houses their fire department. Literally in the middle of the transaction and in the equipment shop the all call started blaring and all but the shop cat and one of the wives dropped everything they were doing and ran to the fire hall. It happened so fast that I was still standing there with the cash in hand to make the purchase. I called out tentatively and the misses came up to finish the purchase. Not even 2 minutes later. All three fire vehicles and the bush truck as well as the ambulance came flying out of the Quonset.
Years later they have a new and proper fire hall for themselves but I got to see them responding to an all call again. And it was still everybody that worked in that equipment shop. So now that they are several blocks away. They have a passenger Ford Transit that everybody piles into.
As a volunteer firefighter I believe we still use our house siren if nobody is at the station but if people are we normally use our pagers but normally we have 4 guys on crew but if nobody’s there the house siren will go off to alert us if we aren’t there or we are at our training grounds which I’m surprised some stations in Pennsylvania still use house sirens nowadays I’ve been with my department for about 3 months now it’s a pretty fun job to have but scary at the same time but makes life more interesting
I enjoyed it. I use to sleep in my clothes so that I could get to the fire house faster. Lol. I have been on all kinds of runs including a small airplane crash with 2 people in it
They still have one in opperation here in Ladysmith WI! I can hear it at my house 2 miles away
cool location!
They still use one of these sirens in Cozad, NE. Also you can get some good videos of trains there and where I live at in North Platte NE
nice sound Brian.have a nice weekend all. greetz:Peer.
Thanks, you too!
Town I live in has one. Goes off every night at 10:30 for curfew. Can be really haunting to hear on a foggy night.
I love ur siren
Thats not he's siren the fire department owns that
Wish we had those sirens here in Perth, Western Australia, they would make people more aware of emergencies. We have a radio alert, but that only helps if the radio is on. TV’s do not have the alert, except for news alerts. If I am listening to Foxtel I am even more blind to emergencies.
Brings back memories of the good ol' days.
Me too. I could hear at least 4 different departments from my home in Goshen, Ohio in the 70s and 80s
I remember growing up my towns two firehouses would horns that would blast and you’d hear them all over town. I haven’t heard them in years now. They must have been replaced with something like pagers or phone notification apps.
That being said, sirens like this one to me are scarier than horns. They remind me of air raid sirens.
great video liked 👍🚒
Thanks Brian!
i enjoy your videos
Thanks Gary!
A true BLAST from the past !!! Things like this should be preserved -it was true life for many a year-and you cant erase that ! Please post the barges video -they make good interludes -and show your prowess with a camera ! Thanks for keeping true life going !
Regards
Awesome Model 5 catch dude, sounds super healthy
I like it also. Thanks for watching !
I love that horn sounds
That’s how Keyport,NJ fire horn used to sound..My grandfather would jump up and grab his boots
I use to sleep in my clothes. lol
I remember it. 😄 Cool
Have friends that live in West Brownsville, Pennsylvania. About a 15 minute drive from where I live in Fayette County.
I lived in Auburn Hills, Mi from 1985-1990. Auburn Hills had a volunteer fire department, too. They used the siren for fires and also on Halloween, they used to siren to signify the starting and stopping of Trick or Treating. Nowadays, they have a paid fire dept. I’m not sure if the siren is still in use and if so, might be for tornado warnings or high wind warnings. Sorry to hear that you weren’t able to film a train.
Thanks, yeah, this was one that I really wanted to film. I will return. The street running section is 6 tenths of a mile long. I gotta get a train here. I know Norfolk Southern still runs coal trains through here.
Jaw Tooth fingers crossed that you are able to see and film a train. 🤞🏼
my town still has one. its really high up on a tower. and you can hear it from the next town over almost
lol, Unbelievable, one guy in flip flops slowly walking across the street. That's first responder? He showed all the urgency of a guy forced to go to work on his day off, lol. Did he sit down & eat a snack out of the vending machine, before having to drive to the call?? This video should be on Saturday Night Live!!!!
If SNL made it a skit they would make it political. It's all they know now
I think he lives across the road from the station. He lives in an awesome spot! He has the street running railroad in front of his house and the fire station behind his home. I would be in heaven! I was wondering what would happen if they had a structure fire or something that required more personnel. Hopefully more volunteers would show up. Back when I was a volunteer, we had 2 runs at the same time. Only one of us was 18 and the rest of us just high school kids. The 18 year old drove the fire truck with another cadet to a car fire while my brother, another cadet and myself took a couple 5 gallon Indian water tanks and a broom to fight a field fire. Another fire dept was also called to help cover for us. The good ole days
@@constanttraveler I agree. SNL is just political propaganda and not funny anymore. I hate politics
@@JawTooth I have not watched SNL in many years. It got to be just liberal political trash .(the kitty's pal from Ga)
Jaw Tooth The thing is, SNL has always political humor, but it used to be all in fun, and they made fun of whoever was in office and everyone was fair game. Today the skits do nothing but put down conservatives, and it mean spirited and not funny. I haven’t watched SNL in years.
That s just how I remember hearing sirens at the firehouse many years ago Why not still use them as a back up Sometimes electronic devices fail You know what I mean
Have a good 4th 🇺🇸
Thanks Dave, you too!
I live in Red Lion, PA. They still use ours. Reminds me of Silent Hill. They use the same sound before everything turns to crap. Always look out the window to see if Pyramidhead is walking down the street.
That sort of thing is long into the past with me Deborah Middendorf I am 60 years old but I still remember them in their day
Man I wish we still used ours
We still use ours in Fairfield twp, Mineral city, and East Sparta many of us are farmers and carry a handi Talky
My grandparents lived next to a firehouse in Rifton NY. and the fire siren would go off at 12:00 seven days a week. Once when we stayed with them when I was growing up the siren went off and it scared me. My grandmother closed the window. And another time it went off ay 7:30 in the morning for a fire somewhere. It doesn't go off anymore
Firehouse sirens were decades ago with me georgette d e b u h r I am 60 years old
Wish I had known you were coming
The fire department in maple wood New York still has a siren mainly because it’s a volunteer fire house
In my town, we have the same siren. It is used for fires and storm warnings.
it’s called a Federal Signal Model 7
Awesome footage
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Thanks Taslim!
If that siren is very long, I think it would be a good flash flood or tornado siren.
I am surprised you did not get a photo of a coal train progressing through the middle of the street in W. Brownsville. Also, surprised the fire fighter did not run to respond to the alarm & surprised that I did not see a fire truck going to the fire.
Modern day minutemen heroes
When I was about 14 the fire department came to the school and explained how they would count the long blasts and short blasts and that would tell the fire personnel in town what they were responding for. They gave us a cheat sheet so we could listen and count it in class. That was the days when there were still pay phones on the corner and no one had cell phones. Circa 1987 Williamsburg, Ohio. Now text messages have replaced all the sirens except the weather siren in town.
I knew a police officer in Williamsburg back in the 80s. His name was Greg Lang. I was on Goshen Fire Department with him in the late 70s. Do you know him? Williamsburg was a cool little town back then to watch trains in and I remember it had a wig wag signal at the Main Street crossing (SR 276)
@@JawToothNo I didn't know him. I knew Chief Houck but that's all just a little before my time. Everytime I drive thru there I look for a train and you lol.
I too, am interested in all emergency departments. Met, fire, police, Forrest fire fire fighters and the rest.
Not too many fire stations still using house siren neat to see some still do
Some day it will be a thing of the past just like losing the caboose on trains
Yep unfortunately like alot of other things
The siren is a model 5 and was moved from on top of the fire hall to a pole
I also rescued lucy flynn with this fire station siren made by 1981
We still use our Eclipse 8 for both fire and tornado
The siren at your old department was a ACA Penatrator-15. Just thought I'd say something Incase someone here is interested
Hey from ecuador we have the same siren in the coast fire stations manta and santo domingo tsa and santa rosa and pasaje those stations
Here in Bishop, CA, the siren (actually five strategically around town) goes off every day at Noon and on every single page. Only complaints are when it DOESN'T go off!
That do be a healthy sounding FS Model 5 doe 😩. And lots of sirens in Ohio are still used to call in Firefighters.
Awesome! Thanks, I will put that in the description
No problem!
Sounds pretty close to our public warning sirens, except our system has a very distinct wobbling to the sound.
Its a pretty scary and very distinctive alarm sound, penetrating any common noise level.
Still in use countrywide, to warn the public against any gross threats, like major community fires, chemical gas outbreaks, umusual bad weather, air raids etc.
These days its an all electronic system, but used to be motor driven air pumped sirens.
Besides their (luckily !) very rare live usage, they are tested live, with alarm sound, once every first wednesday in may every year at midday.
The whole system is tested once a week every wednesday at midday, with no alarm sound.
I think its cool to see fire stations still using them when they get a run. That is becoming rare
Fire station 1 minute down the street from my house I thought it was a freaking Purge about to happen