Easton's Air Raid Siren for Imminent Danger similar to Fire summons

[avm316]

Sirens keep the public safe, especially when fire trucks and other emergency vehicles are about to pull out onto the road to respond to a fire, car accident, etc.

[SuperMoussey]

reading the broshure must be the secret code fore the tornado siren

[SuperMoussey]

i love tornadoes

[aldente543]

my town has that same exact siren

[KetchupAndMustard55]

LOL I HEARD you say "you probably can't hear me at all" when the siren was going off :D

[ND1003]

It must have an SC controller. This is fast wail on the SC. all of our 2001s have it.

[Cars2fan]

Something tells me this was made in the 1990's. Its old but no matter how old a Federal Signal sirens gets, it still sounds GREAT when its wailing.

[Cars2fan]

@amberlynn6914 this is an old Federal Signal model3? I thought it was a Federal Signal model 5.

[DS977luxol]

Loudness is 128,5 Db/100 ft. Amazing siren !

[amberlynn6914]

Federal model 3.

[MrSciencetificsasuke]

1:08 - 1:25 it the world loudest BLEEP! LOL

[Audinos]

Every town has to have a hair-covered liberal whining about something. One day, it's the sirens. The next day, it's about a proposed Walmart, a neighbor's ham radio antenna, or the nativity scene in front of the police station that "offends" them.

[hootergirlsrhot]

100s of residents, i would not mind that at all, as long as they don't replace it with a "new siren"

[BBhunter58]

In houston we don't have sirens

[DulinVideoProduction]

Those aren't air raid sirens they are fire sirens I'm a volunteer firemen in Oxford and in talbot it should be common knowledge

[spotandtiggerbug]

Every time that it would go off, i would look outside and check the weather. Then you could know!

[DasMidnightDrifter]

Conversely, Alert could also be used for Fire calls.

[DasMidnightDrifter]

Honestly, I can't tell Attack from "Fast Wail". They need to get the programming altered on the boxes so the two tones don't sound identical.

[ilovepolice1]

Nice model 5. Also it sounds like a 2001

[Droideka133]

@ilovepolice1 More than likely a model 3, the model 3 and 2001 have the EXACT same choppers.

[TheRobCicero]

That siren sounds great!!! Your lucky! I use to live in a town with 7 of those sirens..I miss hearing them.. They were a apart of my life for 26 years! and every night at 6 to be home for dinner! They sounded amazing from a distance when you could hear all 7 sounding in a symphony of music!!!! Great stuff! Dont complain! Living in a town without sirens is boring!

[JustBearWithMe]

During the siren going off, i actually heard 1 thing quite clear "you probably can't hear me at all", so I could hear that perfectly lol

[eastcountybabe78]

these irritate the crap out of me because i never know what they are going off for. i live in cambridge just moved hear from west coast and never heard these before in my life. i always try to figure out what they mean.

[VMFA115Starloric]

"We would die sitting at our computers"

So you must be deaf? Anyone who has decent hearing can hear a storm, hurr durr.

[Droideka133]

Thats the fire signal I think.

[Droideka133]

Nice Model 5.

[bnsf4]

That would be a fire siren. At the beggining. Tornado/storm sirens are white and rotate on the pole that they are on.

[sd40u]

@bnsf4 haha, not always plenty are still in the "civil defense" yellow and are omnidirectional or ratating sirens. there are countless models of siren all used for various needs.

[iwnproductions]

old model 3

[Droideka133]

I heard the difference, the fire signal is plain slow attack, and emergency is sort of a type of fast wail. You can hear the difference very well.

[evfd2003]

Easton was rated the 8th best small town in America, clearly our fire sirens must have sounded while they were rating our town. Most people use the siren as a tool to know when fire trucks may be coming and to look out for firefighters responding to the firehouse. Though some people are still oblivious to what we are trying to do.

[evfd2003]

First of all the sirens do not activate between 10-6 unless there is a serious call such as a working fire, serious car accident, etc. I live a block away from a fire siren and it seldom wakes me up and usually im going to a call anyway. I really dont know how long you have lived here but I would bet that the fire sirens were here first and enough things have been changed because of new residents complaining.

[TBOLT1000]

that is an old siren and is not that loud, imagine having a chrysler siren in your town. Also known as the worlds loudest siren. you can tell fire from storm signal because the during the storm signal, the sirens wind-up faster. Would you rather hear that if your house is on fire or would you rather hear it during a storm? either way, those sirens could mean the matter of life or death for someone.

[FrostiTheWolf]

FAIL OF EPICNESS. you really should look up some info before you rant. i have been living here for 12 years, and they deffinatly dont go off 3 times a day. i think you are an acctivost that just wants to rant and prove a point. ok, so we take away the sirins or make them soft. now your in danger becuase we are being attacked. now who needs help? the stupid acctivist that wanted them gone.

[planetsandman]

@FrostiTheWolf

First of all, the majority of area in the USA that is serviced by VFD's, DO NOT have fire sirens. Travel out West and you will see fire companies doing a great job utilizing pagers and cell phones only.

Secondly, I do not live in Easton, but have on several occasions heard the alarm go off three or more times in a 24 hour period.

Finally, one should avoid calling people stupid when they are unable to spell, or even figure out how to make the computer do so for them.

[ladder1989]

well hey i hope they get rid of those sirens for you by the way when ur house burns down because they got rid of the siren and could not signal the firefighters like me to your house don't go crying on you tube

[ruthular]

u look like the sceince teacher from i carly

[dieselpower4ever]

he has a point, it is stupid that they have to blow the sirens 3-12 times a day. How would they know if they were really getting attacked?

[VMFA115Starloric]

Haha, this guy is an activist against the warning of imminent danger to his town.

Irony!

[FoamPackingPeanuts]

The Model 5 siren does not like what you're saying and therefore will try to block out said dialog.

[tglime0718]

If you don't like it move the hell out of my town, asshole. The sirens were there long before you were, and they play a far more important role in my community than you and your cynical attitude ever will.

[radioguy100]

@tglime0718 dose your county have a public safty radio system were they can page out the Vol. fire fighters on pagers. That"s how they page us out here in hamilton county florida.

[GOLFisNOTaSPORT6]

I live in Delaware, one state over. Almost all of our sirens are solely for volunteer departments (only Wilmington has completely paid depts.), and the nuclear plant has its own sirens.

I live 1/3 of a mile from a Federal Model 5/7 and it does not bother me one bit.

Departments around here will not decommision their sirens, because they serve important purposes:

1. They alert citizens to responding volunteers.

2. Pagers and beepers are not fool-proof.

3. So victims know help is en route.

[radioguy100]

@GOLFisNOTaSPORT6 sorry I didn't see you post before I commented on tglime0718 comment. I am a volunteer and we do not have a siren. I gess it is because I live out in the country. I do recall seeing a siren at sation 3 in the main city "Jasper" their fire dept. is also volunteer but they never use their siren. They haven't ssense the 80s when we got our radio system.

[HeretoComment76]

is he Ned Flanders from the Simpson??

OMGGGGG!!!

[carouselcarouse]

12 times a day? Holy shit what for?

[HighwaySong1999]

Just curious but didn't you realize the sirens were there BEFORE you moved to Easton? This reminds me of the folks that move next door to an airport and complain about the noise. It's just so unusual to me that people would willingly subject themselves to something they find so offensive.

[locohog91]

around ehre our sirens dint go off for a fire call but, when they did it was a wail on wail off liek in tihs video, it stoped after lets say 1 min. for a storm or tornado it was on steadely for 3 mins now everyone coudl under stand that but, urs is confusing, in the book its not the correct signal

[copycatzero]

Yeah, I've visited Easton a few times, myself, and the first time or so the sirens were pretty unsettling. Don't recall if they went off at night, but that probably would have freaked me out even more, although the friends I was staying with assured me that it was just a fire thing, not a major catastrophe.

But, I agree, it would be nice if there was something they could do that would keep the siren for emergencies only and allow a different way of alerting the fire-fighters.

[Sakuranym]

I once stayed at a friend's house in Easton. I was woken up in the middle of the night by these things. Having never heard one except when watching old movies where there was a bomb raid or something in my highschool classes, I was a little off-put when one woke me up in the middle of the night. I literally thought I was going to die. When it kept going on and no one in the house got up I figured I was safe, but completely unecessary? I would think so.

[Wasteminion]

The sirens are offensive and frankly even if they were using old beepers the cost is surely low enough for the town to front. I'm sure the affected residents would be more than happy to help fund the installation of newer and less offensive devices...those who see the sirens as some kind of personal symbol are free to relocate them to their back yard as far as I'm concerned.

[heat45jc]

i live barley a quarter mile from one and i haven't heard it for years.

[gatrwrks]

You'd be surprised how many times those sirens go off.

[bingelboyII]

i bet alll u people wouldnt b complaining if it went off for the firedepartment to respond to your house because your house was on fire now would ya......its for the fire department....they do their jobs....saving lives......quit complaing.....bunch of selfish people if ya ask me.....id make it louder just to piss yall off.....

[Bensmithstation60]

there is one in our town that was disconnected because it would rattle every second floor window in town. (i live in the town in the video.)

[Wasteminion]

This isn't against the fire department, nobody is complaining that firemen do their jobs, we're complaining that outdated and offensive technology is being used, at a detriment to some of the same citizens who donate to those same firemen. If one of your family members was a war veteran and the sirens caused him horrible flashbacks, would you still fight for the sirens? I'd like to think you would, and it's a shame if your opinion changes based on whether it's your family member or mine.

[locohog91]

there are newer replacements but one problem the cost is alot, and there nto as effective as the older more realiable ones, theres warnigns on TVs but what happens when the TV goes out, or the power, these still come one with battery power. i say stick to old school, some people from wars say this is music to their ears

[xXxferrari098xXx]

has it ever been set of when a real air raid is about 2 happen

[marksmanman96]

there have not been any air raids

[sean93212]

oh ya try living in an american base were they have six different alarms but one day middle of the week just hangin with my freinds you know because this base was for homing for military families just outside game stop drinking a coke when the air raid alarm goes off we all head to the bunker but they were after closing it already me and my friends had to keep on the move to avoid being hit by fucking bombs do you know how scary that was having to ride out an air by running around the place

[onefive0]

I agree, I lived in Easton for 9 years, and this god damn alarm drove me INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had two babies that NEVER got any sleep. I came this close to shooting those f*#$%!g sirens right off the pole! I used to live within a few hundred feet of one, and begged the fire company to realize that we are in the 21st century, alas, there was no reasoning with hose beaters. They live for that sound, and so I moved the hell out of Easton.

[Bensmithstation60]

funny how you call people who risk their lives everyday for the community by names.

[silenthill123321]

i so would love to live thare silent hill every day

[thewootersnerd]

hey friend i hope you get to the town of easton about this problem because this sh@$ needs to stop blowing all the time i am 100% with you about that siren.

i will never know when if it was something minor or something major like a twister. the only way i would know what is happening is from my dads little radio he carries around. (on may 17 2009 i counted how many times that siren blow that number was 7 and i know there was no 7 twisters, shot there might have been 7 white fluffy clouds)

[BrandoBlanco]

Thanks for doing this! It is the most annoying thing and in today's day of age of radios and things we only need this siren for real emergencies.

Let us know what we can do to help

Brandon

[biggulp2000]

you got to remember not every fire Dept. can aford pagers

[HeretoComment76]

dude, no offences, but you look like Ned Flanders from the simpson :)

[johnmartinez123]

lol more like Mr. Noodle's brother, Mr. Noodle from Elmo's World on Sesame Street.

[Rageman1112]

AUTO ZONE! GET IN THE ZONE!!

[EvanToTheFutureDude]

A Model 5 or 7.

[videomaster110]

it is a model 5

[Antipwnsurmum]

Model 3.

[Antipwnsurmum]

it's a model 3, listen to the length of the windup.

[cherylsenter]

As nostalgic as it might be for some siren enthusiasts - The siren is needless and to say the least unnerving, unless of course there is imminent danger for the local masses.

Why aren't the firefighters using digital scanners, cell phones and beepers?

[biggulp2000]

cost probaly

[HowWouldWeKnowTheDif]

Most days it goes off three times, some days none, and occasionally we hear the two minute siren ten to twelve times a day. They recently said they weren't going to use it at all between 10 pm and 6 am, but last Monday it went off at 3:55 am and then 10:16 pm that same night.

[Bensmithstation60]

im pretty sure, it only goes off from 10 to 6 if we're called for a Structure fire, wreck with entrapment, or if additional manpower is needed for a call we're already on. we have a call most every night so, i mean, we dont wake you up every night while we're goin to work to serve the community.

[VMFA115Starloric]

@HowWouldWeKnowTheDif

Maybe you should get filled in with the technicals on these devices before you continue to make judgment calls on them.

[HystoricalMicrobe]

The fire siren goes off 12 times a day? :S!

[lcassell94]

i think its silly. its going off so many times that one day no ones going take any notice when theres going to be a real air rade. why dont they just set it of wen theres danger?

[xthemwordx]

i'm from MD central md so i don't get to hear them. though i saw many sirens in st. mary's but i wished we had a siren in bethesda for june 4 2008. n. va has them but we don't.

[littlesirenboy]

sounds like a 2001

[Antipwnsurmum]

Especially the fast wail. Further evidence that this is a Model 3.

[murrfarms]

That's not fast wail, that's just the normal cycling on a PGA timer. The Model 2 at the VFD up the road from me cycles just like this Model 3 does, and it's also on a PGA.

[Antipwnsurmum]

Ooh. a PGA timer.. that's weird, because they can't do alert and apparently these sirens can.

[Antipwnsurmum]

No, the windup is far too slow for even a single phase 5. Let alone a 7.

[Archon2561]

I have a Model 3 But mine is a 8 port version

[Antipwnsurmum]

Wow, a model 3 doing Fast Wail. Or, a busted timer doing Wail.

[soccerdude7330]

Excellent video, love the sound of the siren!

Doesn't that get annoying throughout the day, though?!

Besides, if its for firecalls, why do they sound ALL of the sirens city-wide?! That is crazy, only the siren at the activated FD should sound.

[crazywarriorman]

It would help if you had your tv on. Maybe then you could tell if it was a fire call or the real thing. Or get a weather radio. I do think that having 2 of the same sirens for tornados and firecalls is dumb. I think you should urge your city to get some new ones. Or tell them to use ALERT(staying at the same tone) for tornado warnings and using attack for firecalls.

[HowWouldWeKnowTheDif]

Thanks for your advice! Every now and then we do hear the ALERT signal (steady signal - nonwavering) and have tuned in to radio and TV to find that nothing is being reported. After one such signal (that was NOT on the first Saturday of the month) I checked radio and TV first, then phoned the firehouse's non-emergency number to inquire why the warning had sounded. The person answering the phone had no idea what I was talking about and was unaware that the alarm had even sounded the ALERT.

[crazywarriorman]

I think what would be best is to sound alert for tornados storms etc and sound the attack for firecalls. I know of many towns that do that. Its very effective.

[Dondonf2003]

The firehouse does NOT set the alert off Talbot Center does CALL them