Mcveytown Volunteer Fire Department House Siren

[Fyffefire4]

Here in Alabama when you hear a siren like that everyone would hit there tornado safe rooms. we have the Minitor 5's and also 2-way radios with PL tones and everyone carries them. it's cool how some other areas still use the Sirens to notify the firefighters to respond. awesome video

[MrKbair]

@rebelgirl215001 well... look its during the day and everybody is at work.

[kurtdog119]

@Thewoog34

I've seen a Federal Model 5, but not on a pole like this one. The Federal Model 5 I saw was on a pole between two poles right behind a store up Lycoming Creek near Old Lycoming Township. I used to hear a 6:00 siren test, and I don't mean six minute siren test. The siren test started at 6:00 every Monday evening, and the sirens heard were sounded for one minute exactly. Sirens heard were a classic STH-10 and a 3T22, the STH-10 did Attack while the 3T22 did Alternate Wail.

[company55station629]

House Going off for a Structure Fire..u mean siren not house

[4136god]

Ahhh the good ol volinteer siren it's not like I here this 24/7

[kurtdog119]

The siren sounds like a Federal Model 5.

[Thewoog34]

@kurtdog119 Yeah, the siren is a single phase Model 5.

[kurtdog119]

The air horn was the classic way to alert volunteers of an incoming call back probably during the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s into the 1970s. Then came fire sirens, the sirens you still hear today from up to a mile and a half away from the fire station where the siren is located. My hometown has an STH-10 fire siren, Erick fire siren, and a diaphone. Anybody got any idea on what the diaphone at fire station 10 is? I'm used to the horn, but the type is unknown. Help me find out the type.

[VolFirefighter418]

I love love fire department air horn

[fireman1]

I love all these smart ass comments from you idiots about how long it takes for them to respond. Really!? The video is 2 min long! Not every firefighter lives next door to the fire station, some people have to drive a couple miles to get to the station. Get real people, it's not uncommon for a volunteer dept to take up to 6, 7, 8 maybe 10 min if it's during the day to go, and they do just as good of a job as paid dept who are out the door in 2min.

[xxxjordanlentzxxx]

@fireman1 where i'm at the time when your tested and what is stated in code is 2 min for volly station most paid will be out in less than a min. i know that it can take upwards to ten min and i'm not sayin anything bout a bad response time they actually did really good

[ohiosheriff]

@fireman1 agreed i live 8 miles away from our department. takes me a while to get there

[justie1220]

@Probie18 did you hear that the siren was just recently restored? i haven't had a chance to be up that way and never have heard it have you?



[hootergirlsrhot]

distortion city!

[Droideka133]

hiccuped 

[Lt18dudley]

Also our members work for a living and are not sitting around on there ass collecting welfare and waiting on fire calls like most of yours are. Just a fact that was held to one room. Since I have been withe the department, 7 years, we have lost one place and it was a trailer. Correct me if I am wrong, but that is better than most. For those of you that think different, we are taking new members. Come on down and show us how to do it better if you can.

[Lt18dudley]

For anyone that was paying any attention at all, the video was under three minutes and our responce for this call was three minutes. Since you are unable to see the rear of the firehouse, you are unable to see the members coming in to man the rigs. Yes responce time is a little slow, but we live in the country and it take time to get to the firehouse. See our members follow blue light laws and don't run people off the road so they can make it to the firehouse a minute or two faster. Also our me

[catman5169]

Years ago, I lived in Cleveland, MS which had an all volunteer fire department...and an insurance class 5 rating. Needless to say, they were on the move. They had pagers as well as overheads...two were Thunderbolts...the others some ancient relics...One day there was a stove fire just down the street...within 45 seconds of the sirens activation, the first volunteer passed the house...within a minute and a half, the firs truck was on scene...less than three minutes later, the second truck arrived

[sc12194]

I love this guys camera how it doesnt record any sound when zooming in or out...

[rtinminn]

i am a retired volunteer, and we had to stop using our siren for calls, cuz neighbors didnt want the noise pollution, sure as in the hell made our response times slower,not getting thru traffic etc

[Iceman2692]

What year is that mack, and what is it's function?

[jack33343]

My dad told me this story about my uncle being a volenteer fireman, he told me when ever the siren went off, he remembers my uncle runnin down to the fire station in his underwear tryin to get to the fire house! great vid

[TheTylersReviews]

Thank goodness that wasnt my house burning down!

[brian445]

What the fck? How long does it take them to roll out???

Bet they havent lost a basement yet??

[jfpinell]

I wish the heck they'd do away with pagers! Darn it....I *like* the sound of that! They haven't used ours in 25 years. They've all gone to those #&%$ pagers. :(

-Probably the city kids that moved in the area couldn't stand the noise. *giggle*

Just don't take this away! I LOVE to listen to this whenever I get lonely for ours the way it used to sound. So many sound a bit different, and I can't believe I was able to find one here that sounds literally, EXACTLY how ours does (or at least did)!

[andyoda1]

I hear this siren everyday in my town, I got use to it o_o

[hondamagnaperformanc]

my favorite siren on here, ill be sure to plug this into my guitar amp and wake up the neighborhood when im playing some good drum and bass!!!

[jfpinell]

@hondamagnaperformanc Hey, actually I used to love hearing ours go off at like 2 AM. Granted the firemen then didn't no doubt! :) We used to live on a farm about 3 miles away from station #1 and about 5 miles from station #2 (we're a Township that stretches about 11 miles across at its longest) and I used to be able to hear that thing out in the field like I was about 2 blocks from it.

[VFVFCo68]

That a Fedelcode?

[mememe123xyz]

Damn I'm glad we don't have a siren like that on our stations. :P

[Galaxy2517]

I miss that sound...all of our sirens are gone...they let the whole town know that something was going on and to watch out for firetrucks!

[javol86]

Since its volunteer, they are most likely waiting for personelle to get there. volunteer doesnt always sit at the fire house. we do.... but some dont.

[bigdigone]

@Haunted100808 just because they have radios doesnt mean they have them on or are in haering distance. i put mine on when im in the car or at night to wake me up but during the day when im home its turned off or charging.

[robertgift]

Nice fire siren!

Why not show how long it took them to depart?

Show volunteers arriving, not just same boring scene.

[RickInIsh]

When that goes off here, itll wake you up from 5 blocks away, within the first 10 seconds. Then, half the damn town goes fire truck chasing.

[firewacker432]

how long does it take to pull out of the station for them??/

[DasMidnightDrifter]

Is it single-phase? It sure takes a while to spin up to speed.

[PGMEagle]

ahhh yes McVerytown been though there many times on my way to Huntingdon lol

[rebelgirl215001]

how long does it take for them to pull out jeezzzzzz.............

[Probie18]

@rebelgirl215001

you should try waiting for the ambulance.

[DippinFireFighter]

@rebelgirl215001 plus when the siren goes there isn't anyone just sitting in the truck waiting for the call.

[lasarusliejukana]

they are not in station 24/7 so they cannot be on the road in 1min

[ProudVolunteer19]

@rebelgirl215001 thats what she said

[truck090]

@rebelgirl215001 LOL honestly the house would of been burnt by then :P

[JustPlaneCrazy86]

@rebelgirl215001

More than 2 minutes...

[mikepatanella]

Its a volunteer fire department stupid. nobody lives at the firehouse

[xxxjordanlentzxxx]

@rebelgirl215001 u have 2 min to pull out. they accomplished it

[VanWADebbie]

@rebelgirl215001 Maybe they`re waiting for volunteers to arrive?

[Confrontationify]

@rebelgirl215001 they have five miunits to get on the road

[alter656667]

is that a Minitor 3?

[Probie18]

@alter656667

Minitor 5

[inuzitu]

whoever uploaded this has no fucking life!

[ilikstikz7804]

@inuzitu,um,YOU have no fucking life.ur just jealous that HE does!>:(

[inuzitu]

@ilikstikz7804 yeah because people who upload goddamn videos of firehouse sirens TOTALLY have a life!

[abzvinny318]

@inuzitu

So what you are trying to tell me is that your life is so filled with things to do that you NEVER have free time? Sucks to be you.

[TheFiretruckboy]

@inuzitu neither do you haa!

[inuzitu]

@TheFiretruckboy your mom and i had sex and it was awesome

[firefighter12009]

sometime you can hear our house siren from 8 miles away here in Perry county Pa....Blain Vol. Fire Co. #1

[jfpinell]

Just curious what happened at about 0:27 & 0:31 with those 2 little glitches in the sound of the horn. Was that just producer's error? :)

[Theroofable]

make another :]

[THEFINALHAZARD]

Wish you coulda gotten the trucks turning out, overall great video. Curious though, what's taht truck in the middle bay, a tanker?

[0409362016]

sometimes its really enoing 2 me cause we live acros the road from the station so it gets on my nerves.

[JJGeneral1]

and if your house was on fire, you'd be the first to say "i hope the firemen hear it"

[0409362016]

yea i know haha

[jfpinell]

CITY KIDS! ...don't know a good sound when they hear it! :)

[georgethe09]

@jfpinell most ppl who live in the city dont have em lol n mist think were all paid, hate havin to explain myself

[georgethe09]

@jfpinell most people assume we are already paid, when im tryin to get a job people say don't u work at the firehouse and im like no....i volunteer there u fuckin niggers

[jfpinell]

I really miss hearing ours! i used to love to hear it as a kid. We used to be able to hear it out in the middle of the field and we lived about 2 miles from station 1 and about 4 miles from station 2 (spread out between the whole township about 6 miles apart.) Ours was also used as a noon whistle -I guess to let all the farmers in the fields know it was lunch time. Darn! I wish they'd use that again! Now everything is done by pagers. They don't even use it at noon anymore. I miss hearing that!

[jfpinell]

Hey, this is cute! Ever since i was a kid I love to hear the one in our township go off. Now I have this one to listen to!

[schemer1991]

0:04 0:07 0:14 0:21 call run .

[schemer1991]

0:04 0:07 0:14 CALL RUN ..

[jmf202008]

my home town has a hore not siren

[Probie18]

most horns are decent but some get really annoying after the second blow.

[Matheny1950]

@jmf202008 The man means "H.O.R.", which was a manufacturer of large sirens some years ago. Anyone voting negative on this has a dirty mind!

[Matheny1950]

@Matheny1950 On re-reading, I see he actually meant "horn, not siren."

[sabethafiredept]

How much longer did it take for the first truck to respond?

[Probie18]

Engine was about 1 minute after the clip ended, the tanker was about 3 minutes

[sabethafiredept]

Cool, thanks.

[iwnproductions]

nice model 5

[twinboysfire52]

awesome video

[gatrwrks]

You know the sound is messing up your microphone try a cotton ball. Just trying to help :)

[Probie18]

I'll have to remeber that. Thanks!!

[gatrwrks]

No problem!!

[idigghx]

That used to be one of my favorite parts of responding, just nearing the station; with the whistle blowing, really got the adrenaline flowing.

[Probie18]

yes it does get you pumped but when i run over to the ems building to the left it kills your eardrums. :)