I note that that siren was playing the attack warning, which involves a rising/falling tone. For those of you not aware, Alexandra is a rural town in central Otago, N.Z. It's a volunteer run station.
@@dbyers3897 Nonsense yourself. Hardly what anyone would call heavy traffic. There are only 5000 people in Alexandra, it's not a big town. There must be one volley that lives close to the station. You can't tell me they all live on the far side of town.
You can tell how different countries are in terms of fire sirens. German fire sirens sound like this: 3x 12 second blasts with two 12s pauses; Austria is just a tiny bit different: 3x 15 second blasts with 7s pauses, while this one does attack...
NZ’s ones are repurposed British-style Air Raid sirens (but some are manufactured new in NZ). It varies from station to station as some do 3 blasts, some 4 but in this case the call-out tone is the WWII attack signal, which is a bit rare, considering repetitive attack signals are used for tsunamis and civil defence as well.
I note that that siren was playing the attack warning, which involves a rising/falling tone.
For those of you not aware, Alexandra is a rural town in central Otago, N.Z. It's a volunteer run station.
Great Catch!👍
A lot of blasts on that siren
Quite a slow turnout. Must have been a Sunday, ha ha.
@@sw6188 Nonsense. Look at the heavy traffic. Not everyone lives next door to a vollie station.
The siren will cycle at a retained/volunteer-staffed station until the first member arrives to stop it.
@@dbyers3897 Nonsense yourself. Hardly what anyone would call heavy traffic. There are only 5000 people in Alexandra, it's not a big town. There must be one volley that lives close to the station. You can't tell me they all live on the far side of town.
I remember the Blitz
You can tell how different countries are in terms of fire sirens. German fire sirens sound like this: 3x 12 second blasts with two 12s pauses; Austria is just a tiny bit different: 3x 15 second blasts with 7s pauses, while this one does attack...
NZ’s ones are repurposed British-style Air Raid sirens (but some are manufactured new in NZ). It varies from station to station as some do 3 blasts, some 4 but in this case the call-out tone is the WWII attack signal, which is a bit rare, considering repetitive attack signals are used for tsunamis and civil defence as well.
Your siren goes off for 9 blastes why is that