6-1-09 Kalihi Elementary Model 5t test

Monday, June 1st, 2009. Model 5T 9/12 port siren. Very rare to find one of these on Oahu. I managed to get up to eye level with it. You can see the chopper spool up and coast down. At about 0:19, you can see the siren spew out a dust cloud: something must have got chopped up in there! At 1:40, I stop recording sound because I couldn't hear anything else from the siren from my vantage point (roughly 100 ft away). Camera was very close to the siren, and I kept it recording until the chopper stopped.

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Science & Technology

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• Signal
• Model
• 5T
• air
• raid
• hurricane
• tornado
• disaster
• siren
• outdoor
• warning
• Hawaii
• Honolulu
• civil
• defense
• binaural
• test

[jtd321]

is the bell at the school related to the siren going off??( ps howd u get up that high??)

[mmcdona1]

@jtd321 Just so happened that the recess bell was at 11:45am, the siren testing time. Good timing on their part though.

The siren is on a hill and there's a park on the hill that is right next to the siren. That's how I got eye level with it.

[iwnproductions]

old old and old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mmcdona1]

sure is.

[carexpertandy]

Hey, it's the 1st video of a Model x in Hawaii!

[mmcdona1]

they're not common here, so it was nice to record this. It was a surprise to me that it was a dual tone model 5 as well.

[mrv2rocketman]

me and 2 of my friends are restoring one of these right now

[vacexpert2020]

poor thing

[junito510]

mostly every wednesday at 12:00pm they test there sirens

[HyperFoxTails]

Looks like something form WW2

[aldente543]

I seen those before in my state

[mariofan6460]

Wind-up is like a P-10/P-15

[sirenfan97]

@iwnproductions You forgot to mention that it was old.

[kasm279]

Sounds like an SD-10

[Videogamer52100]

Looks ugly and beat up! Could probably use some paint.

[Bonemeal2]

Man, that looks beat-up! Slow pickup, but sounds quite good. It annoys me. I know I say this a lot on YT, but it bugs me that other communities will keep their old sirens working, but the Spartons (Sparks Withington) in my town were left for dead. There was a red one on the old Lincoln Elementary school that was removed when the building was converted to apts, and there's a bit black one on the fire station that's been silent since the mid 90's. FIX THEM!!!