Cobb County Siren #07 - Federal Thunderbolt 1000T

Monthly test of Cobb County, GA's outdoor warning siren system. Siren is a Federal Signal Thunderbolt 1000AT, located at Cobb County Fire Station #7 at the intersection of Hicks Road and Hurt Road, in Austell. The system is tested on the first Wednesday of the month at noon (weather permitting), and consists of a roughly 3-minute alert signal. After this siren shuts down, you may be able to faintly hear a couple of Whelen sirens in the background still going. The lower pitched one is likely the WPS-2810 at Miller Park (~2.7mi NNW), and the slightly higher pitched siren is one of multiple older Whelen Vortexes in the area.

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[werdobutt]

these sirens suck i live in cobb county

[murrfarms]

@werdobutt These things have saved your butt several times, so I wouldn't be complaining. This 40-year-old clunker blows away any of the ones made today, that's for sure.

[lilaj34siren]

if yall like that one watch manchester,georgia thunderbolt siren that one has a beautiful voice

[murrfarms]

@lilaj34siren Sadly it finally quit though, blower gave out and now it's been turned off, so the 2001 is now the only siren for the town. I think it had problems long before that though, because it really wasn't all that loud compared to this one. It also had a major air leak somewhere, which is why it had that strange sound in comparison to a "normal" healthy Thunderbolt like this one. Poor old thing, that was the last one in service in my area, now it's down to just Cobb County's in the state.

[form109]

nice old Thunderbolt,and superb recording.

[murrfarms]

@form109 Thanks!

[murrfarms]

@Ciccothe The 2001-SRN at the fire station? I think I'll pass...I'm surrounded by them as it is, so no need to drive 2+ hours to record one when I can drive roughly 15 minutes to a nearby one.

[bad2britannic]

@werdobutt me too i live in cobb county

[MrCoasterkid577]

Needs a Paintjob ! but great sounding siren

[amberlynn6914]

@werdobutt Heck yeah!

[amberlynn6914]

@murrfarms You and jeb have spare blowers-FIX IT!

[werdobutt]

@murrfarms i have grown to like them i live within less than a mile of cobb co siren #27 which is infact a thunderbolt 1000t and my previous comment was before i researched sirens and the only sirens that suck in cobb county are the wheelens

[g0thchik77]

@werdobutt They don't suck, they blow. ^_^

[Thewoog34]

@murrfarms Not in terms of energy efficiency or maintenance requirements. I'm no Thunderbolt hater (or old siren hater, cause my favorite siren of all time is the ACA Hurricane) but I can see why they changed things. I don't understand why Sentry still makes the 40v2t though when the 16v1t is almost as loud but only takes less than half of the power required. I think they should change their dual tone sirens to 8/12 or 10/16 since they have 8, 16, 10, and 15 port castings already.

[Trocks797]

You know my favorite bolts are the ones that look like hell but sound like music! Awesome video.