Graton Fire Siren on CBS News 11-26-10

As Graton Fire looks to move to its new location on Highway 116, 5 homes out of 2,200 have filed an injunction to block the move of the siren. We have tried different pagers, but the technology just hasn't evolved to the point where it is reliable enough when dealing with people's lives.

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[GratonFire]

Actually, it sounds at noon each day - a single blast - and for emergency calls - four high/low cycles. It was installed in 1955 and has been used consistently since then to call the volunteer firefighters to the station.

[4NZZZ454CATEngine]

they have to keep it, because volunteer fire departments don't have pagers or they can't afford them these days. I hate the Government and the people who hate civil defense sirens. They are the ones who are really gay. I have a video of a single phased STL-10 siren going off and I don't mind the loudness of it. I had bad dreams of it when I was young and autistic.

[Tabby266]

Really, it does not have that annoying of a tone, and what can be more reliable than a siren? What if the battery dies in a pager? What if the signal does not reach them? Technology has evolved, but some things have not evolved well.

[dendroicazenaida]

Those dumb people actually want to get rid of it? Yeah, that's smart so people won't be warned in a real emergency. All those people unprepared because of a few complaints? "We don't need a siren"????? See how they like it when it's their house the firefighters need to go to and no siren to call them or a real emergency happens and they weren't warned by a siren.

[bigfirie]

I am a volunteer fire fighter in Australia, and we recently had issues with a small number of residents trying to block a station move because of the noise of the trucks. On the other hand, we rely primarily on pagers. Our system is more reliable than the siren. My pager warns me when the battery is low and the state government supplies the batteries. To hear the siren it depends on wind direction, terrain and even whether the windows are open.

[MrDyson01]

@GratonFire our siren is going to get fixed

[acahurricane1275]

@Tabby266 especially in this case since graton is a small hilly town and usually pagers cant deal with hills and cellphone service is like near zero . thats when you use the stl10 siren

[acahurricane1275]

@Tabby266 sometimes old technology is the best

[ND1003]

that STL-10 sounds awesome at 2:10

[VFVFCo68]

Some people are just babies. My company has a siren, and we have had it for 60 years. We still blow it for calls and will do so for a long time to come. For any siren buffs out there we have an STH-10.