THE REVIVAL Of The Dallas Thunderbolt Air Raid Sirens | 6/24/2021
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At about 1:45 me and NTXstorms headed down to one of the Dallas Fire Stations to possibly set off one of their bolts, luckily they were nice enough to let us set the thing off. The reason so much dust is coming out is because this thing has been sitting silent for about 12 years, throughout that time, dirt was probably building up around the blower intake.
After we were done with the first one, we decided to hit up another Dallas fire station. Luckily they were also nice enough to let us come over and do a quick blast lol. we parked on top of a parking garage, then went walked down to the fire station to set it off. Kinda sucks that the rotator was broken.
These tbolts NOT connected to Dallas's system and haven't been since about 2009. they can ONLY be operated manually from siren the controls.
(I would not recommend asking the fire department to operate these sirens, most of them probably won't know how) 
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Hasn't been activated in over a decade and whirled right up as if it were still continuously used! Truly a feat of engineering.
Indeed it is!
It’s a shame that’s Federal Signal discontinued the Thunderbolt series. However it was probably for the best considering how expensive the parts were getting.
no surprise to me...
@@ValenDRV well u really think they’d still be using blowers now a days?
That's why they cheapened them down and converted to electronics. They want their modern junk to fail. Nothing better than mechanical
This is amazing! A Dallas ‘bolt has come to life again!
Two of them
They’re inactive still
@@1000BT I know that
If they were inactive, this video wouldn’t even exist
@@OWS_Crazy1 They don’t use them, they only set them off upon request, so they aren’t active
To hear a Thunderbolt siren sound off again in Dallas is a truly monumental experience. Richardson was mostly Thunderbolts, they had at least two 2T22 sirens, but now they are onto their THIRD siren system as of a few months ago. They replaced their T-128 system with 2001-130 sirens. I heard them for the first time during the March 21st TORNADO WARNING. I will post a video of it in a few days. The sirens are not up close in this video, but still can be heard.
They replaced their T-128s with 2001s? That's a huge downgrade considering T-128s have better coverage.
Nice video I also would love to see if there setting off the Dallas 1000T as well next time.
That is a Nice Sound!! Nice Catch!! And Love the Drone Shot!!
Unbelievably Nice Video!
Wow! This is awesome!
This is very epic
0:22 that blower though
Wonderful!
I’ve seen this siren inactive before like 8 years ago
I’m kinda sad I couldn’t make it to these but I’m glad y’all got them
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thanks for sharing, found this when I was trying to find out what model siren the fire station where I grew up had. I saw a recent pic and it's still up on the pole! They "upgraded" our neighborhood in the 90s to the digital speaker crap you can barely hear during severe weather. I love how it creeeeaked back to life and then blew out a decade of dust :D
These old Thunderbolts, though, you could hear them inside from miles away! It's Station 12.
VERY cool!!
man this video is amazing. im glad they still work and are very healthy! Man i hope they put these back in service and use the 2001s as backups.
that wouldn’t be possible. a handful of the bolts remain and over 50 2001’s remain.
@@Fratt4008 well theres a map that shows all bolts are still in place.
@@United_HVAC_and_Fans They could make the 'bolts backup for 2001's or gap fillers
@@marylandsirensfirebuff9664 definitely should be used as gap fillers.
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I’m going to try to do this
The dust tho lmao
Still sounds like new
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no we need to do this to hamco system
Still standing, but proud and silent.
Too bad they don't put some new radios on them for more coverage.these bolts will probably outlast the 2001s
There used to be a thunder bolt at a fire station by my house but they unfortunately took the head off because the fire station collapsed in the June 9th 2019 storm in Dallas the roof collapsed inside and homeless were sleeping in it and they demolished it but now I think they might have rebuilt it but it’s just the pole of the thunderbolt
Who operates on that train line next to bolt #1?
I have no idea, I’m not exactly a train enthusiast. I do know it’s a DART train though.
@@OWS_Crazy1 ah ok
i wish i could've gone
These bolts must have a 6M A1 blower on them?
No, it’s a 4m. You can usually tell it’s a 6m when the siren has a slight pulsating tone.
OWS Crazy1 Could they have a 5M, or are they a 4?
I live in Fort Worth but I visit Dallas often and I think this is the Thunderbolt that I see from the freeway I think the 2001's are kinda lame
The first is just like the Northville Thunderbolt 1000 in Michigan.
Different pole tho lol
And different blower
@@BeaverStateOWS didn’t these 5M’s?
@@OWS_Crazy1 eh, the real one is still on a tall ass pole.
@@EastDetroitMusic-Sirens3000A some of them. Not all of them.
That's crazy! They have probably never heard them in forever!
Is this siren tested regularly on the first Wednesday of every month because I would love to video it go off
Nope, it was manually operated from the fire departments by request. Only the newer 2001s sirens are tested monthly.
@@OWS_Crazy1do they manually test it every first Wednesday?
@Alex Jansen no. The thunderbolts have been cut off from Dallas' system and have been deactivated. They have apparently been used for a tornado warning in the recent days maybe as a gap filler but they are not tested manually sadly. I'd love to see these in action but I guess that's just how it is.
@@dfwrproductions sorry I miss understood what I said, but they were actually all used for civil defense, they didn’t have the idea at the time for tornado and bad weather use, only for civil war.
@Alex Jansen well they were used for several storms, not just civil war even despite their name. While the thunderbolts would probably have a longer range/louder sound than the 2001s during a situation where the public is in serious jeopardy, they'd probably not go off.
woah wouldn't that AR Timer have kicked the whole old system on?
No, just the unit at the fire station. I’m pretty sure none of the AR timers in Dallas work any more
@@OWS_Crazy1 ah
whats going on the thunderbolt 1000
What’s going on it? Not totally sure what your trying to say
You do it and then recommended for others not to do it? I don't get it.
The fire departments we went to, don’t want other people coming up and asking to set off their sirens. That’s pretty much why.
Holt shit!
That’s c series
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