wonder how much money it would take to make that show theses day from what i herd that was the reason they couldnt make the show anymore because it cost alot to make the fires and damage building
Just a point, the system used was actualy Quick Call II. Quick Call I has a 1 seccond pause between the first and seccond tones while Quick Call II has no pause.
I wonder if it's legal to install those on a CB or Ham set in your car for emergency situations to make sure you have someone's attention? More to the point, I wonder if the equipment is still around or if I can fabricate something to do the job? As I read someplace, the tones were generated with a principal similar to a woodwind instrument. Is my understanding correct?
What is the pre-alert tone called??? The one that is medium-low-high (the tone at the very beginning)?? I am looking for it and I don't know the actual name, so please let me know everyone. Thank you for all the help you guys can provide for me.
@ExtremeGamer55 That's not one tone. That's the 2-tone combination for station 51 followed immediately by the klaxon going off in the station. The klaxon isn't actually on the frequency, it's a device in the station that makes an ear-piercing sound to wake up the men. In each of the following sets of tones, you would expect that the klaxon in each respective station would be going off immediately after their set of tones. Unrealistically in the show, station 51 was almost always first.
@cinnamondouche True, but every now and then they weren't. On the call where Johnny gets bitten by the snake they were toned second out of three, and (correctly) announced after engine 85. But more often than not they were first toned.
I've wondered for YEARS what kind of tones these were (I was born in 1970, and remember watching this) and now I know. Fascinating and very interesting!
My father worked for the local utility company and their paging system was all Motorola Quick Call based in the days before and up into the pager days of the late 70's and 80's. His service truck being outfitted with a quick call on the radio which when activated would blow the horn on the truck, turn on the flashing amber lights and seems like it would perhaps activate the bugle under the hood. When the dept went to pagers they still used the tones for them instead of the trucks.
Funny thing...well, maybe not so...I work at a remote radio station here in upper Montana, and on quiet, late nights you can hear the weirdest noises and sounds, much like these alarm klaxons...and there's nothing around here for miles, closest town is seven miles away...I'm only 16 miles south of the Canadian border...but it is just too weird...and spooky.
Hearing the call out for all those engines after that many tones.....as someone who works in this field - not a good sound/call. Our community in MN still uses tones to hit both stations as well as all the pagers for the guys. I prefer our old ones - solid tone, break, BEEEEE-DOOP, BEEEEE-DOOP, BEEEE-DOOP. (Each one setting off various areas, pagers, home radios.) But yeah, my favorite part of the show when I was a kid was definitely the tones. I totally need that on my phone. :)
Who cares about your tones dude! It's about the show man. glad you work in the field! 99.9% of do also. the show got us interested . the show man It's all about the show. think any one cares about MY tones? not! LOL
Thanks so much for posting this. I used to watch Emergency! as a little kid and the tones and klaxon was my favorite part. Thanks for explaining the tones. Very interesting!
I made a .mp3 file & set it as a ring tone in 06' - aside from it really getting comments, it made one heck of an alarm, and generally annoyed everyone around me... =)
Thats pretty cool, I always enjoyed hearing and the Mocom in the squad and the HT200's. Todays trunked crap is boring. Someone should post the part where the dispatcher is sitting at the Centracom.
That's interesting stuff! Amazing, what you can learn on YouTube! : ) Thanks for sharing the info! I was a big fan of this show! We watched that and "Adam 12" every Friday (Saturday?) night!
Some of our fire departments here in Indiana still use those Motorola quick codes. A few still use old Motorola and GE Phoenix radios from the 1970s and 1980s.
My brothers bought a scanner after watching "Emergency," and, within a matter of hours, they knew the call tones for our 2 local stations, and within days, knew EVERY call tone for LACOFD stations.....this was back in the day when scanners used crystals!
The episode I remember vividly is the one with the fire at an abandoned oil refinery- God those explosions looked real! Always wondered how it was done in the days before special effects and CGI?
yeah, but you would have to go on our web site and go through all the fire tones, then break them up into segments. never heard any one try it though. let me know if it works
There is no "Opening the speakers" Thats the sound of the system keying off between tones. When the tones go out it hits a relay in the radio and un-mutes the speakers.
still love those old tones
stanggod95 1 month ago
I remember hearing LA county on 33.820mhz on skip back in the 60's what a thrill
Wa3ypx 2 months ago
I just watched that episode on hulu.com
joemagliari 2 months ago
Station 51 kmg 365
jmream1 5 months ago
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pablopcasso 6 months ago
This show made me a fire fighter after watching re-runs after school in the mid 90's.
nmcarpenter 9 months ago 2
Numerous Departments all over the country are still using this system.
papabugs71 1 year ago
what episode?
bigman10239 1 year ago
wonder how much money it would take to make that show theses day from what i herd that was the reason they couldnt make the show anymore because it cost alot to make the fires and damage building
67keefer 1 year ago
were can i get that ring tone for my cell phone?
towzone978 1 year ago
Just a point, the system used was actualy Quick Call II. Quick Call I has a 1 seccond pause between the first and seccond tones while Quick Call II has no pause.
kam1073 1 year ago
Most beautiful alert system ever! Not 2 B confused with!
OctavePussYoTube 1 year ago
Squad 51 meets Towering Inferno!
xenomagnus 1 year ago
When ya hear that many tones paged out at once, ya know it's something BIG!
JLJ061 1 year ago
@JLJ061 second alarm asignment
jmream1 1 year ago
doesnt that mean when u hear all them tones at once that many other stations are being called at once
DatNiggaJaymacc 1 year ago
I wonder if it's legal to install those on a CB or Ham set in your car for emergency situations to make sure you have someone's attention? More to the point, I wonder if the equipment is still around or if I can fabricate something to do the job? As I read someplace, the tones were generated with a principal similar to a woodwind instrument. Is my understanding correct?
charlie8575 1 year ago
can you upload all the episodes of this season ?
TheUban123 1 year ago
What is the pre-alert tone called??? The one that is medium-low-high (the tone at the very beginning)?? I am looking for it and I don't know the actual name, so please let me know everyone. Thank you for all the help you guys can provide for me.
ExtremeGamer55 1 year ago
@ExtremeGamer55 That's not one tone. That's the 2-tone combination for station 51 followed immediately by the klaxon going off in the station. The klaxon isn't actually on the frequency, it's a device in the station that makes an ear-piercing sound to wake up the men. In each of the following sets of tones, you would expect that the klaxon in each respective station would be going off immediately after their set of tones. Unrealistically in the show, station 51 was almost always first.
cinnamondouche 1 year ago
@cinnamondouche Ok, I understand. Good news for me I found it on the internet and DLed it and now its my ringtone! Best tone-out combo ever to me!
ExtremeGamer55 1 year ago
@cinnamondouche True, but every now and then they weren't. On the call where Johnny gets bitten by the snake they were toned second out of three, and (correctly) announced after engine 85. But more often than not they were first toned.
Marckymarc71 1 year ago
I've wondered for YEARS what kind of tones these were (I was born in 1970, and remember watching this) and now I know. Fascinating and very interesting!
wlbaz 1 year ago
My father worked for the local utility company and their paging system was all Motorola Quick Call based in the days before and up into the pager days of the late 70's and 80's. His service truck being outfitted with a quick call on the radio which when activated would blow the horn on the truck, turn on the flashing amber lights and seems like it would perhaps activate the bugle under the hood. When the dept went to pagers they still used the tones for them instead of the trucks.
mickatmidnight 1 year ago
show made me a paramedic
DUSTY1373 1 year ago 20
@DUSTY1373 If you find out how to get that on your phone, please tell me.
topco130 1 year ago
@DUSTY1373 If you find out how to get that on your phone, please tell me.
topco130 1 year ago
@DUSTY1373
mhogg4 11 months ago
My favorite show from when I was a little girl. Thanks for sharing! :-)
MyFreedomChannel 1 year ago
diamonddon63-
KMG 365 is the Dispatch Center's FCC (Federal Communications Commite) Identification. Every dispatching center has one,
DaRosa218 2 years ago
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KMG-365 was and still is the actual FCC call sign of the radio frequency used by the L.A. County Fire Dept.
Marckymarc71 2 years ago
what does kmg 365 stand for or mean?
diamonddon63 2 years ago
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Marckymarc71 2 years ago
@diamonddon63 kmg 365 conformation to the dispatchers
jmream1 1 year ago
@jmream1
jmream1 1 year ago
@diamonddon63 kmg 365 conforms the dispatcher they received the call
jmream1 1 year ago
@diamonddon63 kmg365 conforms dispatch that the station received the call
jmream1 1 year ago
"Station 51: KMG 365."
baraxor 2 years ago
The Harvest Hills episode from I believe 1974 -probably one of the best of the series to me. Thanks for posting!
rollprogramhouston 2 years ago
Thanks for the information, ja.
Why did they stop using the tone system?
Anyone knowhere station "51" is located? Could not recognize anything from the area or freway in background.
robertgift 2 years ago
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lbfd11 1 year ago
There was actually no "station 51"...it was in reality station 127. Rampart hospital was in reality Harbor medical...i think a part of UCLA.
gargoyle2bad4u 2 years ago
station 51 IS a REAL LACoFD Station...
farmtruck551 2 years ago
Sorry its station 127 in carson my mistake
lbfd11 1 year ago
strange, only station 51,98, would be dispatched from the L.A call center of los angeles county, the rest would have been antelope, or valley.
prozanine 2 years ago
Funny thing...well, maybe not so...I work at a remote radio station here in upper Montana, and on quiet, late nights you can hear the weirdest noises and sounds, much like these alarm klaxons...and there's nothing around here for miles, closest town is seven miles away...I'm only 16 miles south of the Canadian border...but it is just too weird...and spooky.
OneCrazyElephant 2 years ago
Hey, I like that!
I would like to say that the sound of the alarm horn itself seems to clearly remind me of the buzzer you would hear at a Basketball game.
mannbradmusic 2 years ago
Correct it is Motorola "Quik-Call I" also known as Motorola 2+2.
Exactly like touchtone but the frequencies are very different. 2+2 Works well, never falses!! Still in use in some places.
I'm a retired Motorola Guy!
w5txrmark 2 years ago
wftxrmark which one of those tones brings up the station lights during the night? Or are they turned on by a man/woman on housewatch?
wlittle 2 years ago
The tone is the same one used to page out the station.
Stations now have a cut-off for the oven/range when toned out, so food doesnot burn while they are out.!
w5txrmark 2 years ago
That makes sense. Thanks for answering back so quickly. Have a Merry Christmas!
wlittle 2 years ago
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cool set it up on my phone as a ring tone and for my alarm clock..THANKS!!
DEFIREDOG911 2 years ago
Hearing the call out for all those engines after that many tones.....as someone who works in this field - not a good sound/call. Our community in MN still uses tones to hit both stations as well as all the pagers for the guys. I prefer our old ones - solid tone, break, BEEEEE-DOOP, BEEEEE-DOOP, BEEEE-DOOP. (Each one setting off various areas, pagers, home radios.) But yeah, my favorite part of the show when I was a kid was definitely the tones. I totally need that on my phone. :)
MELVILLE66 2 years ago 16
Who cares about your tones dude! It's about the show man. glad you work in the field! 99.9% of do also. the show got us interested . the show man It's all about the show. think any one cares about MY tones? not! LOL
breck98499 2 years ago
@MELVILLE66 How can you get this on your phone?
topco130 1 year ago
I've been searching and emailing trying to find out what model of klaxon/Vibratone horn was used for Station 51's house alarm. Any ideas?
timba61 2 years ago
Yes. Send me a personal mesage.
TJE4210 2 years ago
Very interesting! Thanks for the info :-) So, do you know what stations use now? You said they stopped using these in the 1990s so I'm just curious!
spacexbutterfly 2 years ago
Thanks so much for posting this. I used to watch Emergency! as a little kid and the tones and klaxon was my favorite part. Thanks for explaining the tones. Very interesting!
jitterysquirrel76 2 years ago 3
I'd love to have the three-tone klaxon alert sound for a ringtone. BAAAP BOOOP BRAAAAAAAWR!
landraiderares 2 years ago 2
I made a .mp3 file & set it as a ring tone in 06' - aside from it really getting comments, it made one heck of an alarm, and generally annoyed everyone around me... =)
zapataoffshore 2 years ago
does anyone have the season 4-7 intros for emergency i can only find season 1,2, and 3
oldenfamily 2 years ago
ok does anyone know how the new fire alarm sounds to this day and was this fire alarm used in the 1950s ???
oldenfamily 2 years ago
Thats pretty cool, I always enjoyed hearing and the Mocom in the squad and the HT200's. Todays trunked crap is boring. Someone should post the part where the dispatcher is sitting at the Centracom.
ChrisC1 2 years ago
That's interesting stuff! Amazing, what you can learn on YouTube! : ) Thanks for sharing the info! I was a big fan of this show! We watched that and "Adam 12" every Friday (Saturday?) night!
HogRebel 2 years ago
Some of our fire departments here in Indiana still use those Motorola quick codes. A few still use old Motorola and GE Phoenix radios from the 1970s and 1980s.
K9FON 2 years ago
My brothers bought a scanner after watching "Emergency," and, within a matter of hours, they knew the call tones for our 2 local stations, and within days, knew EVERY call tone for LACOFD stations.....this was back in the day when scanners used crystals!
Beetsbaby 2 years ago
The episode I remember vividly is the one with the fire at an abandoned oil refinery- God those explosions looked real! Always wondered how it was done in the days before special effects and CGI?
richintalent 3 years ago
Nope, this is the third season brush fire episode "Inferno"
BassmanII 2 years ago
do you know of any software that can make their tone. i tried comtekk but it didn't work
driverx125 3 years ago
yeah, but you would have to go on our web site and go through all the fire tones, then break them up into segments. never heard any one try it though. let me know if it works
LA29PM 3 years ago
What is it?
driverx125 3 years ago
audacity
then use the frequencies in the description of this video
audacity. sourceforge. net
fireboytj 3 years ago
That makes sense! Thanks for clearing it up.
wlittle 3 years ago
Most likely the dispatcher opening the speakers at the stations involved in the call..
BJP777 3 years ago
There is no "Opening the speakers" Thats the sound of the system keying off between tones. When the tones go out it hits a relay in the radio and un-mutes the speakers.
buzman1985 3 years ago
Jahatrod, during the tone-out what is the click heard between the tones that sounds like a microphone being keyed?
wlittle 3 years ago