Payson, Utah City Outdoor Warning Siren, 1 (wide)

Please see video 2 of this, also. This siren just happened to sound (today when I uploaded this, 09/14/09) on the same day as the grand opening of Payson, Utah's first Walgreen's store, 2 weeks after their first day (soft opening). Merely coincidental, since the grand opening seemed quiet, slow, and somewhat lame to me--although they did give us free ice cream bars! How nice--I really liked that part of it! They also sold us hot dogs with chips and drinks for only $1.00, too. Celebrational siren I seriously doubt, though that would've been interesting, although overdone. Nearby Elk Ridge's siren IS sounded at the start of the city celebration's Mayor's Breakfast, though.

A thunder storm was brewing in, and I wondered why the siren was sounding for just that. I've lived around Payson for about 27 years (19 in Spanish Fork, 8 in Elk Ridge), and not too far away from there even now, for a while, and don't remember ever hearing that old Federal Signal STH-10 siren (the model with a single row of projection horns in a whole circle) sound before. In fact, though I've driven down this road many times, this is the first time I remember noticing that I could see that siren right from that road. The station is but about 2 or so blocks away, but I don't remember seeing that siren right from that road before. I guess the loud sound has a way of directing your vision to it. I wondered when I'd ever get to hear that siren, and now I have, finally. Well, maybe I did hear it while visiting my grandparents there, but I just don't remember.

I "grew up" in the neighboring city of Spanish Fork, and based on what I can rememeber, this siren sounds more grainy/shrill than the Model 2 or A or whatever (the pointy double-mushroom-cap-looking style--but not the REALLY mushroom-looking one, the E57) that Spanish Fork had before the recent years when they built their new fire station just across the street. In these more recent years, I haven't been in Spanish Fork at a time when I knew that their new siren (a very short, flat version of the double-mushroom-cap-looking siren--flatter than E57) was sounding.

Elk Ridge has a Federal Signal Model 2 or A or whatever--less grainy and shrill, not as intense, more of just a moan than a yell--not as much of that urgent "FIRE, FIRE!" or "Find shelter or get out of town NOW!" sound to it.

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Video 2 has the wind-down and a bit closer view. I should've recorded them both for a bit longer.