Dispatch and Siren

[catman5169]

A big "salute" to the volunteers...they put their lives on the line to help the citizens, and it's all for free. I've got to brag on the Cleveland, MS VFD...all volunteer...and they have a class 5 insurance rating. I now live in a city that has a paid dept, and they're only class 4.

[tdragon360]

fuck me! is that a old fashioned air raid siren?

[photosbychristensen]

I hear that i would go to my basement it our tornato seirn wher i live

[coolsax64]

We stoped using the siren after the majority of the people in town complained. These are the taxpayers who pass bonds and operating levies to keep the lights on and buy new apparatus. Our pagers do an excellent job and no complains about it. If we were a more rual dept the siren would stay.

[Bonemeal2]

I have to say, it's not too common that I've heard a "firewhistle" run steady like that. When ours ran, they would warble three times. Wind up. Wind down. Wind up. Wind down. Wind up. Hold. Hold. Hold. Wind down and off.

[xthemwordx]

i hate when people just say i they haven't heard of a tornado siren being used for fires. and yes they have pagers. the sirens on top of or next to the station. and i'm sure (for the most part) if they were tornado sirens, there would be more than one around. plus the tones are probably different and the period of time they wail. the station near my school sounds the stl-10 for 8 wails (which apparently is pretty typical). i would say it's good to have sirens and pagers in case something fails.

[Bonemeal2]

@xthemwordx For years, our Sparks Withingtons doubled as Civil Defense and Volunteer F.D. sirens. I agree with you because there is an added advantage to what we always called "firewhistles" when I was a kid. Not only did they alert the volunteer F.D, but they also were a good way of getting OUR attention to clear the streets and be on the lookout for emergency vehicles.

[indyandyful]

What where they responding to?

[Bonemeal2]

Even with pagers, our volunteer F.D. didn't stop using sirens until...well...until they failed. We had two Sparks Withingtons. They're quite rare, as it turns out. If you look at my profile pic, that's what a Sparks Withington looks like.

I miss the way they sounded. They almost sounded like violins, as strange as that sounds.

[FFbosmoe]

I miss our siren. I got to enjoy it for the first two years. To many complaints I suppose.

[boston18967345]

You guys are in the stone age of firefighting in terms of dispatch, lol

You guys don't have pagers?

[narutoyhalo4]

@boston18967345 stone age? and your talking about pagers i guess it stills falls under stone age lol

[kjbrimm]

Where is this? aint never heard of a station using a Toronado siren to tone out Fire fighters...

[ohbobsaget22]

sorta sounds like the venango volunteer fire stations siren

[dixonp1]

was this a test or the real deal?

[Ryan1823]

Hearing the siren being acitvated by the pager system reminds me of back in the day when the fire dept my dad was on would have that done...usually after the second page the siren was set off down that the fire station...butttttttt sadly they cannot activate the siren for calls anymore due to a neighbor that complained and threatened the city....its a long story...but this brings back memories :-)

[wvangler93]

@Ryan1823 wow and i thought it was just the neighbors around my department only thing i can say if they dont like it get over it or move cause its almost like a tradition for a siren to go off at the station and it was working way before they moved in

[gwenrocks1234]

Uhhh how is that fire call if its like loud as heck?

[pearldrumsarecool]

I'd hate to live near that station especially since I'm a Sheriff's Deputy and have to work night shift

[firefanner]

Where was this?

[rescueguy1976]

Love it !!

[Bonemeal2]

I am VERY impressed, to say the least. I've never heard such a powerful Model 5, nor one that sounded like a 2-tone ACA Allertor. This siren's beautiful!!!

(Note: the only Model 5 I've seen lately was the Friendship Noon Whistle.)

[goosehunternate]

man we havent use then in years

[XxjoshthedragracerxX]

WHERE DID YOU GET THE MODEL5???

[amc71484]

hobbyists.

[80fireman]

model 5T, this siren is a dual tone

[SuaveTy]

lol sounds like our tornado siren.........whats goin on???

[80fireman]

fire call

[SuaveTy]

oh okay.....i was gonna say geeze.... but that makes since cuz a town near me has that and we thnk its a tornado siren.

[eureka800]

@80fireman does it do that for mva calls too?

[paraawesome]

@SuaveTy In small towns sometimes vollunteer fire departments use air raid sirens to alert firefighters theres a call. If a pager costs $50-$100 bucks each......

Air raid sirens are still used by some departments, but have fadded out in most, at least where I live. They have been replaced by pagers due to the noise factor. non-vollunteers usualy dont care for it much... lol.

[thehalo3godz]

@SuaveT they all sound the same tornado sirens are the fire sirens.......

[DeltaFoxtrotWhiskey3]

@SuaveTy For some reason a lot of towns like to send their residents running for the basement whenever their's a fire. You know, just in case the entire town is engulfed in fire and below ground is the only safe location. In the event of a tornado, the smoke detector goes off and you're supposed to go outside.

[r5t6y12]

The fire alarms in Mount Holly NJ used to go off as many as ten times a week during certain times. I don't think I've heard them even once in the last 6 months (December 12th 2009)

[vlaup]

yeah mt holly has stoped using the siren system because they all have pagers and also the fire dept now only comes out of 1 station. the other 2 were closed and the other is the emergency squad. the only town that i know of that still uses the siren is palmyra

[Bonemeal2]

@vlaup

Same here back in...1995? Might've been 1994. We had two Spartons; one on the CFD, and one on the long-decommissioned Lincoln Elementary School.

Oddly, they had the pager system in place by 1986. They still ran the sirens as a warning to motorists, and to an extent, to let the victim(s) know the FD was on their way.

BTW, what is that snap/click/tick I hear every time the siren starts winding back up?

[vlaup]

yea i herd about them was there a third one too?

[Bonemeal2]

I don't know if we actually had three, or was the Lincoln siren painted and repaired. It started out as a gray siren, burned out on tornado test day 1985, and in late Spring, a bright red Sparton was placed on top of the school. In the video "Siren Picture Slideshow", at 1:57 in, the red siren on the left looks identical to the old one from my town.

Now, we have 2001's.

[vlaup]

wait cfd by Palmyra?

k ill watch the video

[Bonemeal2]

Siren Picture Show by jayhawk29.

[m173627]

@Bonemeal2

the snap is the electrical relay

[hairynomb]

Delco station 73, Carbon County District 17

[sfd1905]

how do you control the siren

[Brngr0fOwnage]

Incoming!

[ladder10312]

I run in PA too, but in Bucks County which is just outside of Philadelphia. We average about 600+ Fire Calls a year and if we log up our QRS unit we average 400 Q calls. We use both our Pagers and our Thunderbolt siren to alert us of fire calls

[sushidude123]

which fire company,i live in northampton township,i am hoping to join my department sometime next year

[ladder10312]

Edgely Station 10, in Bristol Twp

[Trainman11185]

great sounding 5T siren

[Cmdrduo02us]

Why does that sound like the old WWII sirens during the Blitz? Kinda gets me choked up thinking about it.

[socceric93]

hey, do you know the name of the tone at 3-5 seconds? its used at our ambulance service. Thanks

[chechnya]

That's what our fire department uses for fire station alerting. The actual system they use is from Zetron.

[cheetosnme]

thats kinda scary what if aliens were invading?

[sabethafiredept]

How many calls a year does this dept. make and how long does the siren sound for?

[80fireman]

we git about 100 calls per year, and the siren sounds for as lond as it takes to git a crew together

[FireFighter3281]

100 calls a year? Are you sure about that? Since Janurary 2009 i had 324 calls. We are a volunteer department. In 2088 we had 781 runs.

[80fireman]

i'm 100% sure, cuz in 2008 we had a total of 94 calls for the year

[Random19Hero]

@80fireman god that must be a boring company to Vouli for... lol we have had...200 calls and its only may...

[m173627]

@80fireman wow you guys get nothing!

[guitar4meandu]

@80fireman wow, how big is your town? I volunteer for a very small dept. and we even have almost 200 a year

[gower22]

im on a volunteer department we only get about 160 calls a year

[MettaFireRescue]

When I first began in the fire service, I volunteered on a VFD in PA that got just 50 calls a year. Now, I'm a career Division Chief in the Southwestern USA. Our FD receives more than 230,000 calls for service a year. STAY SAFE!

[pacemiester]

@FireFighter3281 wow thats crazy my vollie department had 1400 ems runs and 1100 fire runs last yaer

[slayslayslay]

@FireFighter3281 we have a department in our county that runs about 20 calls a year

[sabethafiredept]

Cool, thanks

[shadowkilla123]

whats that tone called at 0:03 to 0:05?

[80fireman]

warble

[shadowkilla123]

thx man

[shadowkilla123]

also, do you know where i can get an mp3 of that?

[anakin3456]

and the alert with one kind of tone system?

[anakin3456]

how do you get alerted? with what kind of tone or digital system?

[80fireman]

CAD, Computer Aided Dispatch

[JBroLivingTheDream]

tornado sirens?

[80fireman]

out in PA, just fire sirens

[fireexp1]

Okay so out here we call them tc for traffic collision, is that what traffic control is or are they like blockin traffic

[80fireman]

traffic control is like keepin ppl from goin a certain way due to an incident or watever

[mgrvercetti]

is this in new york

[80fireman]

no, PA

[liljay227]

it sounds like the New jersey sirens.

[shankmaster]

I've never heard of an Attack unit. What is it used for and what kind of equipment/people does it carry?

[80fireman]

kinda like a large brush, holds 5 ppl, carries 4 SCBA and brush equipment along with 2 1/2 1 1/2 and wildland hose

[Rory84]

We have one of those, ours is a Dodge Ram 5500, they call them "Fast Attacks" here. I love them. Class C vehicle, very quick, very helpful. We can sustain the engine long enough for the paid engine to arrive. Love it. Always take the Model A Freight liner for structures, though.

[Tannre40V2T]

You guys have it all wrong, its a Model 5T!

Cool video!

[mutts252]

scratch that, shoulda waited to see the end of the video before i asked that... LOL... clearly not a Thunderboly!

[mutts252]

... *Thunderbolt.

it's not my day.

[80fireman]

it's alright, we all have those days lol

[mutts252]

is that a Thunderbolt-1000 siren? it sounds amazing!

[narutofightindreamer]

Oh cool!! A "Rural Firehouse" that still has the old time civil defence style "Call Siren" operational. There's only a handfull of 'em still here and working in California. Most of 'em are up in the Sierra's or way up in the far northern end of state. I think thwere's a couple of them down in the Mojave Desert too.

[videogamer24385]

Do you set off the siren or is it automatic through frequencys

[80fireman]

the pager in the amp sets off the siren

[FirefighterEmt4Life]

what was the call for?

[80fireman]

close the hill cuz it was to slick

[anakin3456]

on what frequencies are the us firedepartments??

[80fireman]

depends on the area which u live

[anakin3456]

from wherer is that video?

that siren sounds very different to ours in germany

[80fireman]

thats cuz it's in the U.S.

[JKSK8ERLIVE]

in Hometown Il VFD wich is like 5-10 mins frum my hous they have a FS 2001 130 they used 2 b a VFD i live n Evergreen pk like 10 yrs ago we use 2 be A VFD we had all TBOLT 1003S!!! and did HI LO it scared me cuz they did alotz but

[PendragonMAB]

Until a man has ridden out on an Engine or Truck with the Local Station's Siren wailing like that, he can't claim to have been a Volunteer Fireman!

[indyandyful]

@PendragonMAB

Then everyone out of all 4 Stations in our Township of Volunteer FireFighters have never been a Volunteer Fireman! We have never used a Tornado Siren to alert us. We have Two Ambulances on Call at all times also, does that not make us Volunteers?

[FireFighter63rd]

i still love that siren. that and the STH-10 we have the latter

[06sinclairt]

what kind of atack was it

[80fireman]

wat do u mean?

[FireFighter63rd]

What kind of siren do you have?

[80fireman]

Federal Model 5T

[HystoricalMicrobe]

We Rarely hear that int he summer. The only time we hear like 100 times a week is in the winter cause of car accidents xD

[nhfdcadet]

how long r u supposed to let the siren cycle till u shut it off?

[80fireman]

however long it takes to git a crew together

[4whelrkd23]

you have to cycle your siren?

[80fireman]

it cycles automatically, if it doesn't trip with the pagers, then yes we have to cycle it manually

[georgethe09]

It the siren connected to the Amplifier/station alert? Will it automaticly shut down or do you have to clear it everytime?

[80fireman]

the siren is connected to the M2 Amp. we have no in station alert system, and no it will NOT automaticlly shut down, you have to do it manually all the time

[georgethe09]

That is a good setup becuause the siren will keep blowing until somebody gets there and deactivates it, right?

[80fireman]

yup

[DigitalEagleInc]

actually thats bad, if it goes for too long it could ruin the motor, Federal sirens weren't desinged for long time runs

[idigghx]

aka the motor starter kicking on. It doesn't need power to wind down, so it only powers up when it climbs to full cycle. That's the problem w/ our SD10A.. The motor starter is shot, and they cost about 600 bucks. After spending 1,500 on a power converter for it, of course something else expensive had to go to shit.

[80fireman]

the clicking noise is the relay slap...the relay slap is the trigger that powers the siren...if you'll notice every time you hear it, the siren cycles up

[graphxman]

Right before the dispatcher gets on the radio there is a 2-tone alert - what is that and what is the name of the device that makes the tones?

[80fireman]

its called a warble....here in armstrong county, PA, wen there is a fire call, the dispatch center sends out all of the companies tones then sets off the warble to let the volunteers know that the dispatch is next

[georgethe09]

In Delaware County, PA we dont have that. Sometimes it takes the dispatcher forever to fuckin tell us whats what.

[idigghx]

Sounds like an SD10

[80fireman]

it also sounds like an alertor....but its a 5T

[2jrvolfirefighter1]

love the relay slap

[stevo03lw]

does the attack truck ever have any vehicle problems? im curious because we have a rescue pumper and may be dumping it in favor of a lighter attack truck like that, thanks

[80fireman]

none that i'm aware of

[stevo03lw]

thanks for the input

[nhfdcadet]

is attack 81 like a utility truck or a brush truck or rescue or what? we dont have any "attack" units up here

[80fireman]

Attack 81 is a 2002 Ford F550 5spd powerstroke mini-pumper.  1st out on anything except structures, fire alarms, gas leaks, LZ setups and maybe a few other things

[nhfdcadet]

ok, thanks for explaining for me ;)

[pivotous]

i'm not saying it is, but this Federal 5T sounds like an Allertor

[Rheems1]

Now that is what I am freaking talking about man!! That is my kind of video!!  Thank you for posting it!

[80fireman]

i waz waitin for ur comment since u helped me find wat type the siren waz

[dablazeboy]

of course for the most part its the crappy radio reception....

[dablazeboy]

ahh only in armstrong......pagin ya out when your on scene.....not one of their best moments

[aaronjacob225]

ha ha think your funny but your not

[aaronjacob225]

lol...just kiddin..great video and sound

[swat1808]

I love all of your videos like this, especially the pages. Does the Pager AMP above the Spectra(I think thats what it is) control the alert siren?

Good job-and next time you do another one of these, get some more of the radios in. =]

[80fireman]

ya the AMP controls the siren

[30fireman]

I heard this call at our hall, great shot of your siren

[80fireman]

thank you

[mbfd5130]

cool