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  • If your Fire Department still has the Siren. Like this.

  • In Germany we CAN use Pager but they are very expensive (400€). So we alert by sms

  • That is an AWESOME house siren. Do you know what kind it is?

  • @cauberallies Here in Germany is that an E57

  • @cauberallies A tempest 128

  • Nice air raid siren :)

  • Best part is when you live next to the station and that alarm sounds and your ass gets up running across the street in nothing but your boxers and your hopping in your gear and starting the rig up while the alarm is still sounding! Volunteers all the way!!

  • my department uses pagers but we are switching over to text messages that has the type of call, address, and what apparatus is dispatched.

  • That first rig was haulin' ass!

  • The next time you ask your voters for money or to support the dept remember those who you upset too. I was on the recieving end of countless numbers of angry citizens asking to shut the alert siren off. At that time we realized we had to make a change and we did. We rely on our pagers, Scanners and cell phone alerts. Always remember, who you are serving. The PUBLIC! they are the ones who pay for your apparatus and station. Maybe when you grow up, you will realize why some traditions dont work..

  • @coolsax64 Heaven forbid we would have to be momentarily inconvenienced by somebody's untimely misfortune with their heath or safety. And that particular siren has still been essential when heaven forbid I leave my pager lay on the counter while working outside or some other room of the house, and by looking at your tenure in the fire service I am guessing you have experienced that as well. Oh and sorry about the three replies early, I didn't think my post was going through.

  • Do you really need the alert siren at night? Thats why we used pager's. Your going to piss off a lot of your voters next time you ask for more money.

  • @coolsax64 For you and all those others out there don't like being woke up by the siren, get over it. Next time you get woke up in the middle of the night by the town siren or an emergency vehicle why don't you say a little prayer that the people, who we are trying to serve, will actually live to see their family another day. We don't turn on the siren just for kicks, only the real deal and once a month at noon to make sure they work so when YOU need us we will be there.

  • @jlwells02 I was a firefighter for over 18 years both volunteer and paid. Over time things change. The alert siren was one of the first means of alerting volunteer fire fighters because most of them worked in town back in the day and they could hear it from where ever they were within the town. Now technology has put a lot of these siren's out of service. Its also a distraction for your neighbors especialy if they live next to or at least blocks from the station. Some traditions just have to go

  • @coolsax64 For you and all those others out there don't like being woke up by the siren, get over it. Next time you get woke up in the middle of the night by the town siren or an emergency vehicle why don't you say a little prayer that the people, who we are trying to serve, will actually live to see their family another day. We don't turn on the siren just for kicks, only the real deal and once a month at noon to make sure they work so when YOU need us we will be there.

  • @coolsax64 For you and all those others out there don't like being woke up by the siren, get over it. Next time you get woke up in the middle of the night by the town siren or an emergency vehicle why don't you say a little prayer that the people, who we are trying to serve, will actually live to see their family another day. We don't turn on the siren just for kicks, only the real deal and once a month at noon to make sure they work so when YOU need us we will be there.

  • what did he stop his engine siren to say i cant tell??

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  • keep it up

  • Never heard a ASC T-128 being used as a Firecall Siren did this replaced a Thunderbolt 1003 that was on or near the Fire Station also other Firecall Sirens that were used were 3T22s Model 5s and STH-10s all are Federal Signal Outdoor Warning Sirens

  • i live on cowen st, just a few blocks from the station, theres 5 firefighters within 2 blocks from me, so when theres a call i have lights and sirens all around me. garrett has one of the fastest turnarounds, if you want to b!tch about a little noise i hope they p!ss on your house if it catches fire

  • is this in indiana i noticed the lutheran air video n was wondering

  • I HATE this siren. It wakes us up sometimes multiple times a night. It drives our dogs crazy, it wakes up our baby ... what century is this where we can't page people on cell phones? This is a public nuissance!!

  • @ErinOnTheTube You have to understand, that cell phones you may not be able to hear at night. Now unless your town wants to pay for all the firefighters be equipt with Motorola pager, Which would cost around (for thats say 30 firefighters), will be around $25,000 (each pager being around $750). So, if your house catches on fire, Im sure you will be very happy to hear that siren

  • Volunteer firefighters. Loud house sirens. Men running. Exciting memoriies never to be forgotten! That and that alone was the beginning of my dream of being a volunteer firefighter. It was fulfilled but in a larger area in upstate N.Y. when I was 19. It continued until 3 years ago. Sorry to bore you all but it felt good to share this. GOD BE WITH ALL VOLUNTEERS.

  • cab Ford, pulls out, waits for a couple of arriving firemen. They jump on the tailboard and the truck leaves as they are donning their protective gear. We knew it was serious when the "little engine" went too. We ran as hard as we could, following the little engine. It was a house fire. Firemen were on the roof cutting a hole and hoses were going inside. There was a lot of smoke. We were there about 2 min. when all the dark smoke turned white. About 10 minutes later there was no smoke. Wow.

  • parking lot, jumping from their cars and running all out across the street to get the trucks. The house siren winding down. The "new engine" as we kids called it, a 1955 Ford is out first. Firemen hanging off every available spot on the outside, putting on their coats as the truck rolls toward the fire. 2nd out is the "big engine", a REO I think was a 1949 or 1950. We 4 buddies watch in awe as it pulls out, also loaded with firemen. More are still coming. Then the "little engine", an old open

  • After reading all the comments about house sirens I'd like to share this. Some may associate with it but most won't. Mid 1950's. A young boy in Laurence Harbor NJ. Vol. fire station and vol. ambulance station next to each other with 2 different sirens. Fire siren sounding, kids running toward the fire house. Men young and old rushing in their cars to the station. Two younger men running full speed up the road to the station. House siren wailing still as the firefighters skid into the gravel

  • Damn impressive turnout and response time. Great outfit. Be safe brothers ande sisters.................a retired volunteer Chief.

  • i respect them.. but y have the truck chillen inside with sirens BLARRING.. like usually i see them pull out first atleast

  • @drainedbycrx it is not the truck's siren, it is the siren of the fire department. the siren is a back up for volunteer firefighters pagers in the case that they fail.

  • im not on a vol. dept. anymore.....but when i was on clinton TWP in millersburg indiana....we got called through our minitors.....im on goshen city central station now. rescue 1-2 and medic 2-3. ill never forget the vol. dept. tho. personaly....i think ppl on a vol. dept have more courage because they are vol. there own time. its awesome.....go vol dept everywhere

  • @ fire501: here in germany it runs about one and a half minutes ;)

  • oh man how long does your siren run? it sounds like for ages ;)

    greetings from a german volunteer firebrigade

  • @timae5 Three Minutes

  • Gow long does the siren sound for?

  • that sounds like a tornado alarm

  • @rbrandtleek

    yes, it is a tempest t-128 tornado siren, it is running in attack(wail) mode to alert volunteer firefighters/the community that an emergency is occruring

  • NOW THAT IS CODE 3

  • i love it how you guys didnt go together but oh well lol

  • lmao wholy **** sirens much haah?

    wake up call

  • this is why i love Volunteer Fire Departments

  • @E064 haha i love volenteer fire departments to, but y do u love them? i love them cuz my dads a fireman and crazy ass stuff goes on upstairs by the bar, its so funny, volenteer just have more fu period. so y do u like them

  • @CFDPaul idk i just do. most likely cuz i am trainning to be in a VFD.

  • @E064 i love them too because i am a voltuneer fifre fighter

  • im guessing that this dept has seperate pagers for all the firefighters like a Min-5 or somthing of the sort...the town siren is just a way of letting people around know to look for EV's and our dept's siren is on a timer, from 8pm-7am it wouldnt go off...

  • @WEFC43 Nope. this sucker goes off all throughout the night. whenever they feel like making it go off. Totally rude.

  • Is that a Tempest 128 siren I hear?

  • In my country (Croatia), VFD are always alarmed with siren like this...It's normal to us...

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  • wow that siren scares the shi* out of me when ever that goes off out here it a tornado or somthing huge!!

  • lol waching this made me want to go to my station rright now and pray we get a call good videi

  • Hello ther my dad is engine 3 at garrett fire dept.

    our german sirens are so: The go on 3 mal and than we can her the fire cars are the german red cross

  • the sirens (CSEPP) where i live have 4 different distinct tones.. 2 of which i hope to never hear.. like i said it is a logical concept..but i'd be pissed if i got woke up by a siren just to find out someone had a minor wreck..

  • but what about the tornadoes...is it a seperate tone? or that kinda tone just for everything?

  • Don't know about here in this video but, back where I grew up at it was two seperate tones for fire and tornadoes. You could easily tell the difference since the fire tone was like the on in this video going on and off and the tornado one stayed on for 3-4 mins straight.

  • @chris72982 Nope. It's the same. So who even knows if there's a storm or if it's just another fire when it goes off at 3AM like it's known to do many times a week ... why even have a storm siren ...

  • @ErinOnTheTube it sounds like an apocalypse

  • @ErinOnTheTube because if you were smart enough and can tell that theres a difference between the FIRE CALL SIREN and the STORM SIREN!! so stop the complaining and you might be able to tell a difference

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  • i mean its a logical concept..but waking up the general public just to page out a handfull of fire fighters to a MVA is kind of over the top... we have county fire fighters here..but they mostly carry uhf/vhf radios...a  few run 800mhz (under the CSEPP program)...wouldnt it be easier to run a radio or pager system? and as for keeping people off the road...tax payers they have every right to drive regaurdless of if there is an emergency or not ...provided they yield to on coming ev's

  • Where I live at now is a combination system. You have to have your unit staffed with a crew to be dispatched to a call via an 800 mhz system. Where I grew up at in rural northeast iowa the fire department ran about 75-100 calls a year. If the pager/minitor system were to fail there that house siren would still sound and alert the members to respond to the station for a call.

  • sorry but someones rescue at an mva is more important then your "right" to drive. Not to mention its not a right anyways iits a privilege. People don't ever get out of the way for ev's. I should know I'm an emt that drives emergency in a busy city. Sorry that you got woke up but someones life is worth more then your 15 mins of sleep you missed because tones were going off and someone responded to someones possible last mins on this earth.

  • oh i know my privilege takes a back seat to the well being of a citizen... what I'm saying is that instead of waking up half the county for a minor wreck ...there are grants for radio and paging systems to wake up only the vff's ...the emergency group i volunteer with we run 800mhz that tone out on a regular basis with vfd and what not........

  • my misunderstanding then.

  • no worries... i could have probably worded my comment differently

  • but u gota fig some depts cant get grants and stuff cuz they dont run as many calls like my old station we only ran maybe 25 calls a year.. the state didnt give much.. and all of that went to keeping the trucks on the road.. in a new station and we make over 400.. and we get a shit load more money.. so it just all depends

  • @Fireman6489 that sucks... but good point, i'd push and push to get grants...the group i work with alot of the equipment purchased we did with money from donations, fund raisers and personal "investments"

  • @adam022695 : Well put and you are right, many people do not yield the right of way to us either when we're responding to an emergency, little do they know it could be a friend or relative we're going to

  • soooooo wake up the entire county to page fire fighters for a MVA? and whats with the siren use on the trucks...didnt seem to be much traffic..but i guess the tornado siren is an  effective way of paging people....just dont seem like it would make the general public happy..but i guess VFD are different in each state.

  • wakes up the county fire fighters and tells the whole county to get off the damn roads so they can get through...quite a few fire departments around here have a town siren that goes off, alerting people that somethings up and keep their eyes peeled for emergency vehicles

  • @SoccerBoy77 At 3 AM??? Who's even on the street at 3 AM in Garrett???

  • @ErinOnTheTube

    Then maybe you should move.... if you didn't know the risks in living next to a volunteer fire department, you really have no right to bitch. And if you are in a situation where you can't move, then I guess it's high time for you to make peace with the noise.

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  • The siren is set for a certain time and goes off everytime there is a call. You can't shut it off when someone gets there.

  • awesome video

  • You think you'd guys would use hazard lights to get there in your car/truck. Where i live ppl will treat those lights like red/blue/white lights and move over for you....but hey good response time!

  • you're telling me that the only person who used his siren was the driver at 1:40 in the van? wat did the guy say on the pa?

  • The only vehicles in this video that have sirens are the the two trucks coming out of the station. The "van" at 1:40 is a Ford F-150 Pick Up. The PA on the second truck out advised he was enroute. He grabbed the wrong mic.

  • Has no one heard of a pager or cell phone?

  • why do they keep the big siren going dont they shut it off when they get there

  • It runs on a 2 min cycle

  • the fire birgade that im in in new zealand if the siren still going when the first person get there they shut if off

  • then how the fuck are the FF's supposed to know if the call has been cancelled??

  • the commucations center will let them know and the pagers will go off saying stand down(well thats in new zealand)

  • Yeah...I hit the wrong mic...stuff happens lol

  • great video man!

  • Did a vehicle with a dragging exhaust go by at about 1:40 - 1:45? You can't see it but it's a metal scraping noise going by lol.

  • Is their a Ladder in this hall?

  • Nope. 1 rescue, 3 pumps, 1 tanker, and 1 grass truck.

  • What is in the 3rd bay& do they use what is in that bay?????

  • The bay on the left is another pump. Only one pump responds to a motor vehicle accident.

  • Sounded like my man picked up the wrong mic.Good video my man.

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