The best part of this video is when you have the siren going off and then the pager alert tone. I always love that combination as a firefighter. It really pumps you up and gets you going.
The combination of the pager going off and the siren in the background is enough to give a firefighter chills. Normally when you hear the combo of the two your adrenaline is pumping and you know you're going to possible save a life.
Joel Dale we did the same unless you were a junior or probationary. Only thing they didn't get, was pay. Never bothered me. I ran more calls than anyone in my stations, in 2012, with no pay, and a blue helmet. I was damn dedicated.
Most depts supply them to their members but you can find them on ebay/craigslist etc.... If you're a civilian however I would recommend a regular scanner. You can listen to a lot more frequencies and its much cheaper than a pager
I miss it. I miss hearing that damn alarm at 0230, and running out the door, with my pants barely on. I miss how it felt to come home exhausted, but content. I miss it all. I hope I can live it again, one day.
@fire9110 I've captured a real video of one of my local fire departments responding from quarters, and the trucks are a 1979 Sutphen 100+ foot aerial tower truck, a 1980s era Sutphen engine, and a 1993 Sutphen Tanker. Those trucks are the main trucks for all calls, including the 1998 Sutphen Rescue/Pumper. The response video of two of these trucks responding has the Powercall siren activated live, with the Powercall equipped on the rescue, and a PA300 equipped on the engine. Music to my ears!
Makes sense, I wish ours would do that, but usually we don't have a problem getting trucks rolling. Our neighboring districts do sometimes. They have requested pagers to go off twice to ensure the page is receieved (we're finishing switching all repeaters to narrowband so the system's being real finicky)
@bigkjt123 Our ambulance tones only last about 5 sec but fire tones generally last longer, especially when 5 departments get toned at once. Towns around here are starting to get away from town sirens but I love having ours. And so do the townspeople so they know when we have a call!
fire9110 that is so true! I’m somewhat new to being a firefighter, and when I hear that siren go off, I’m out of the house faster than I am for school😂 ST230❤️💪
The tones that drop at 1:01 to 1:05 are the Duty Officer tones for my town. They proceed the station(s) tones on any dispatch. We get that followed by a seven or eight second tone per station. That got me good. I felt a small kick of adrenaline...
Im a vol. for DeKalb County in TN, and my heart started poundin a little faster during the tones, i just think to myself i cant wait for the tones to get done so i can get the info. lol
@proteen545 like you were told before, you can get them on ebay for like $400 dollars, but I would too recommend a scanner because you can they can hold and scan a lit more frequencies... And are a lot cheaper. A Minitor is like $400 dollars and there are only 2-4 channels on a minitor, while on a scanner, you can have up to 100 channels, depending on the scanner. A scanner only costs in the $100 range, maybe even less if you get it used. Just to make it clear, I don't think anybody on here has a pager to sell to you.
For anything? They don't dual/triple tone here unless it's a fire alarm/structure fire. They'll single tone three times, and if no response (which can happen occasionally) they'll start mutual aid.
In most parts of Germany we have alpha-numeric pagers with displays. When a dispatcher presses the red button, every pager is ringing withing a few seconds showing what happened including a location and maybe additional information. I like it, because we do not have to wait a minute or so for a vocal radio to activate and give us further details.
@fire9110 Is this in Wolcott? If so, the siren sounds like an Erick fire siren. The Erick fire siren company started in the 1930s, but are now unfortunately out of business. Some of their sirens still exist, and I have seen and heard one in person.
im not even a firefighter yet and whenever im with my dad at the fire house (he is a social firefighter now)and those tones go out i get an adrenaline rush eve if im just sitting home and i hear the alarm go off boom its in my blood and i cat stop it lol
@jjt59 I live about a minute from the station. I heard the initial tone out and figured they would start the full response so I hopped in the car just as they started the page.
we have horns so the horns have 4 different tones; major, minor mutual aid and report to hq. with that we then have our general tone out, chief tone and then we have 4 company's which have their own tones as well
not really cause in my township Dist.4/8 duel tone 24/7 and my and district, Dist.9 we duel tone with dist. 11 between 6a-6p on week days, then any time after we duel for smoke conditions and structures
You say 5 depts at once you all must use the same paging frequency cause here each fd has their own frequency so only way to here the other is with a scanner
fire9110 ahh here we are not. 911 calls are directed to our dispather then they page us out. Can be quick or slow depending on the day and call volumes.
Mr. Popo thats how these systems are. We ran a plane crash. I could've drank a beer and played a round of pool by the time it was done. Surprisingly, it still yields fast response. It's just staggered, which is actually good, since the district commander can asses, plan, and hand down strategic orders to assisting companies. It works better than you think.
Yeah get a scanner I mean they are cheap for amateur a pager runs about 400 bucks so it would be cheaper or download an app to your phone but apps on phones are sometimes slower then usual calls
What a ridiculous amount of tones. Over a minute of tones. This alerting system doesn't even come close to national standards of one minute from picking up the phone til getting people alerted. Tones are long with long gaps.
Technically, as long as it's a minute between picking up the phone and first tone it's still in compliance. Text messages are also sent. Additionally, units were already on scene and were requesting more resources, so this wasn't the initial dispatch.
@@fire9110 NFPA 1221 says alarm handling states alarm handling is supposed to be completed with emphasis on the word completed 90% of the time within that standard. That means everybody should be aware where and when in that time not sitting through a course of tones. It really doesn't matter that they were units onscene because this is the way it's going to be handled each and every time there's a fire alarm.
@@paulndaoc Then they can look at their phones and see where the call is. They can drive to the station to look at the run sheet (by which point they will have already heard where the call is on their pager). There are at least three ways to be notified. Small, rural areas don't have the luxury of staffed stations. Their best bet is to get as many people moving as possible. I appreciate your concern but the Monday morning quarterbacking is unnecessary and quite frankly annoying. These videos are here for general viewing and enjoyment, not to be nit-picked and criticized, especially by someone who likely knows nothing about the area or the challenges presented.
Running to the firehouse with ur pager going off and house siren blowing is an amazing feeling with a lot of adrenaline!
Theres really nothing like it..I miss the house siren at my old FD, made my hair stand up every time
Had to stop a touch myself! Bwahahahahaha
My station has no siren but since I am a siren enthusiast maybe I could get one for the station
Omg so true
@@will-i-am9575 I remember running into my fire house. I tripped on my face on the ice. Before I got in the truck.😅
Agreed. My pager is sitting next to me and, even though I know the alert tone is coming, my heart still jumps! Stay safe out there, brother
When the first tones dropped and the siren went off I was like "oh hello siren glad your still doing your job too!!"
The best part of this video is when you have the siren going off and then the pager alert tone. I always love that combination as a firefighter. It really pumps you up and gets you going.
When I hear this many tones go out I know it's the big one so my heart is practically jumping out of my chest every time!
The combination of the pager going off and the siren in the background is enough to give a firefighter chills. Normally when you hear the combo of the two your adrenaline is pumping and you know you're going to possible save a life.
Not as much as Hearing MAYDAY MAYDAY
my pager beeps then goes through the tones, first tone I hear I'm out the door!!! I ain't missing the truck
RockFishFire 225 where I live they allow you to respond to calls in you vehicle if you not able to get on with the trucks. And you get paid for it
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Joel Dale we did the same unless you were a junior or probationary. Only thing they didn't get, was pay. Never bothered me. I ran more calls than anyone in my stations, in 2012, with no pay, and a blue helmet. I was damn dedicated.
Kicking_Ash_225 Way to go! That's the spirit
Most depts supply them to their members but you can find them on ebay/craigslist etc.... If you're a civilian however I would recommend a regular scanner. You can listen to a lot more frequencies and its much cheaper than a pager
Wow that's a lot of departments being toned out.
Absolutely love the mixture of the pager tones and the house fire!
nice vid. I am thinking of becoming a fire fighter so i started listening to the pager sound
I miss it. I miss hearing that damn alarm at 0230, and running out the door, with my pants barely on. I miss how it felt to come home exhausted, but content. I miss it all. I hope I can live it again, one day.
@fire9110
I've captured a real video of one of my local fire departments responding from quarters, and the trucks are a 1979 Sutphen 100+ foot aerial tower truck, a 1980s era Sutphen engine, and a 1993 Sutphen Tanker. Those trucks are the main trucks for all calls, including the 1998 Sutphen Rescue/Pumper. The response video of two of these trucks responding has the Powercall siren activated live, with the Powercall equipped on the rescue, and a PA300 equipped on the engine. Music to my ears!
Makes sense, I wish ours would do that, but usually we don't have a problem getting trucks rolling. Our neighboring districts do sometimes. They have requested pagers to go off twice to ensure the page is receieved (we're finishing switching all repeaters to narrowband so the system's being real finicky)
@bigkjt123 Our ambulance tones only last about 5 sec but fire tones generally last longer, especially when 5 departments get toned at once.
Towns around here are starting to get away from town sirens but I love having ours. And so do the townspeople so they know when we have a call!
love the sound of the sth 10 siren in the back ground
Jacob pawelek my station in Roxbury NY has the exact same siren as well
cool
@devsthebest1 That sound will get any firefighter's heart pounding
fire9110 that is so true! I’m somewhat new to being a firefighter, and when I hear that siren go off, I’m out of the house faster than I am for school😂 ST230❤️💪
When the tone drop don't come a knocking
The tones that drop at 1:01 to 1:05 are the Duty Officer tones for my town. They proceed the station(s) tones on any dispatch. We get that followed by a seven or eight second tone per station.
That got me good. I felt a small kick of adrenaline...
Awesome video
I love house sirens! 🥰
Especially when you least expect it...when you hear tones following yours, you know it's going to be one of two things...
that last tone that dropped sounded like our EMS tone... i gotta stop doing this with headphones.. lol
Im a vol. for DeKalb County in TN, and my heart started poundin a little faster during the tones, i just think to myself i cant wait for the tones to get done so i can get the info. lol
@proteen545 like you were told before, you can get them on ebay for like $400 dollars, but I would too recommend a scanner because you can they can hold and scan a lit more frequencies... And are a lot cheaper. A Minitor is like $400 dollars and there are only 2-4 channels on a minitor, while on a scanner, you can have up to 100 channels, depending on the scanner. A scanner only costs in the $100 range, maybe even less if you get it used. Just to make it clear, I don't think anybody on here has a pager to sell to you.
Greatest sound in the world to me!
I haved a bad fire call a home fire and control burn and it was 8 hours
For anything? They don't dual/triple tone here unless it's a fire alarm/structure fire. They'll single tone three times, and if no response (which can happen occasionally) they'll start mutual aid.
In most parts of Germany we have alpha-numeric pagers with displays. When a dispatcher presses the red button, every pager is ringing withing a few seconds showing what happened including a location and maybe additional information. I like it, because we do not have to wait a minute or so for a vocal radio to activate and give us further details.
that 2nt tone sounds just like our tones
I totally agree, I miss my Minitor 2 the most.
@fire9110
Is this in Wolcott? If so, the siren sounds like an Erick fire siren. The Erick fire siren company started in the 1930s, but are now unfortunately out of business. Some of their sirens still exist, and I have seen and heard one in person.
This is awesome!!
It is cheaper to get a scanner if you just want to listen. Pagers are to alert the first responders of an emergency.
the second time your pager alerted sounded a lot like our tones
nice video, must be close to ur station when it whent off ?
That first tone is identical to the tones for my Vol. Department in SC
Im also wayne county NY I knew these tones sounded familiar!!
im not even a firefighter yet and whenever im with my dad at the fire house (he is a social firefighter now)and those tones go out i get an adrenaline rush eve if im just sitting home and i hear the alarm go off boom its in my blood and i cat stop it lol
1:00 is the exact same tone used in my town to activate the siren
ive been leaving my scanner on at night, i will be in a sound, heavy sleep, but if i hear the galway tones and "Galway fire/EMS" im up and ready to go
Nice fire siren
Awesome tones! Love Motorola pagers!
the tones that drop at 0:09 is my regular tone out
where do you get a pager im sorry to ask this but i whant one! Im only 10 and what to be a fire fighter and i gona learn
sick vid!
is that from butler pa?
whats the frequency Kenneth?
It comes from a siren tower in the middle of town that alerts firefighters to an emergency.
@kurtdog119 This is in North Rose. I'm not sure what kind of siren it is but I can look it up and let you know.
fire9110 federal sth-10
@jjt59 I live about a minute from the station. I heard the initial tone out and figured they would start the full response so I hopped in the car just as they started the page.
Your tone sounds almost exactly like ours
Meanwhile while that takes forever the house has burned down
It sounds just like our fire tones
I miss the big siren, and riding tailboard.
thats awesome i miss our siren
where do you gte a pager?
It takes so long because 5 depts are being dispatched simultaneously.
no we dual response during a certain time then again if smoke or fire
I would like to be a volunteer fire fighter
Put in a application in for ur local dept
0:51 Sirens go off
have you decided between heavy equipment and welding they don't have an afternoon for welding just letting ya know bud
in my township we sorda do so we duel tones during certain times then after that or on weekends we duel tone for smoke or fire
what county in New York
where was the louder siren coming from
what does it mean??
Hey man what kind of siren is that?
I don't think that siren is on his car its a siren that is on top of a Fire Station because we have them on top of our stations here.
Federal STH-10.
DO U HAVE TO BE N THE FIRE DEP OR CAN ANY PERSON BUY A PAGER AND CAN I GET INTROULBE IF I BUY ONE???
andrew caldera you have to be part of a Fire Department and they are issued with a Fire Company
at 0:40 and 0:54 thats exactly my department tones and where in westchester county NY
Peter Weigand why the 2 tone offs
we have horns so the horns have 4 different tones; major, minor mutual aid and report to hq. with that we then have our general tone out, chief tone and then we have 4 company's which have their own tones as well
Thats our tone too 😭😭 Hillcrest NY
That sucks, Minitors are the best
sick!
I miss my minitor since my county went to alpha numeric pagers
not really cause in my township Dist.4/8 duel tone 24/7 and my and district, Dist.9 we duel tone with dist. 11 between 6a-6p on week days, then any time after we duel for smoke conditions and structures
What scanner/pager is that?
Motorola Monitor 5
Same pager tones for my department in Ohio
You say 5 depts at once you all must use the same paging frequency cause here each fd has their own frequency so only way to here the other is with a scanner
We are on a county wide dispatch system. The central 911 center dispatches fire and ems for the whole county
fire9110 ahh here we are not. 911 calls are directed to our dispather then they page us out. Can be quick or slow depending on the day and call volumes.
Nope, South Butler, NY
Is your company a butler county company in PA
Joel Lampasi Nope. Wayne County, NY
Man those tones go for ever before the info comes through I get like 30 secs of tones if that
Your dispatch takes forever to set tones off. Only 5 companies, that took way too long
Mr. Popo thats how these systems are. We ran a plane crash. I could've drank a beer and played a round of pool by the time it was done. Surprisingly, it still yields fast response. It's just staggered, which is actually good, since the district commander can asses, plan, and hand down strategic orders to assisting companies. It works better than you think.
Yeah get a scanner I mean they are cheap for amateur a pager runs about 400 bucks so it would be cheaper or download an app to your phone but apps on phones are sometimes slower then usual calls
No you can buy one but they are like 400$
im surprised the tones take so long
Well it's 5 departments being toned out...
The department I'm on dispatch says taking a (structure fire) for (northeast) then they do tones
@fire9110
Okay. I'll wait for your reply.
hey fire9110 do you think you cand send this to my phone im in the rcfd
*house siren
Wayne County
@joshua
What a ridiculous amount of tones. Over a minute of tones. This alerting system doesn't even come close to national standards of one minute from picking up the phone til getting people alerted. Tones are long with long gaps.
Technically, as long as it's a minute between picking up the phone and first tone it's still in compliance. Text messages are also sent. Additionally, units were already on scene and were requesting more resources, so this wasn't the initial dispatch.
@UCMpQp9Fmxg04ihDHfznUzBg Thank you for your input. Unfortunately that's not always feasible.
@@fire9110 NFPA 1221 says alarm handling states alarm handling is supposed to be completed with emphasis on the word completed 90% of the time within that standard. That means everybody should be aware where and when in that time not sitting through a course of tones. It really doesn't matter that they were units onscene because this is the way it's going to be handled each and every time there's a fire alarm.
@@paulndaoc Then they can look at their phones and see where the call is. They can drive to the station to look at the run sheet (by which point they will have already heard where the call is on their pager). There are at least three ways to be notified. Small, rural areas don't have the luxury of staffed stations. Their best bet is to get as many people moving as possible. I appreciate your concern but the Monday morning quarterbacking is unnecessary and quite frankly annoying. These videos are here for general viewing and enjoyment, not to be nit-picked and criticized, especially by someone who likely knows nothing about the area or the challenges presented.
0:51 Sirens go off
sick!
sick!
sick!