Don't know about here in this video but, back where I grew up at it was two seperate tones for fire and tornadoes. You could easily tell the difference since the fire tone was like the on in this video going on and off and the tornado one stayed on for 3-4 mins straight.
Where I live at now is a combination system. You have to have your unit staffed with a crew to be dispatched to a call via an 800 mhz system. Where I grew up at in rural northeast iowa the fire department ran about 75-100 calls a year. If the pager/minitor system were to fail there that house siren would still sound and alert the members to respond to the station for a call.
@ErinOnTheTube You have to understand, that cell phones you may not be able to hear at night. Now unless your town wants to pay for all the firefighters be equipt with Motorola pager, Which would cost around (for thats say 30 firefighters), will be around $25,000 (each pager being around $750). So, if your house catches on fire, Im sure you will be very happy to hear that siren
Check out the Facebook page on the Cleveland,MS VFD...founded in 1920...and except for the maintenance person, remains all volunteer. A few years ago, their fire insurance class rating was dropped to 5...not bad at all for a VFD. The city where I live now is paid and fully staffed...and rated class 4. Love those VFD's
Never heard a ASC T-128 being used as a Firecall Siren did this replaced a Thunderbolt 1003 that was on or near the Fire Station also other Firecall Sirens that were used were 3T22s Model 5s and STH-10s all are Federal Signal Outdoor Warning Sirens
@coolsax64 Heaven forbid we would have to be momentarily inconvenienced by somebody's untimely misfortune with their heath or safety. And that particular siren has still been essential when heaven forbid I leave my pager lay on the counter while working outside or some other room of the house, and by looking at your tenure in the fire service I am guessing you have experienced that as well. Oh and sorry about the three replies early, I didn't think my post was going through.
Yep we do have a siren on the top of one of our buildings, but the only time it goes off is to signal 12 noon. Does the siren there go off every time there is a call for response????
wakes up the county fire fighters and tells the whole county to get off the damn roads so they can get through...quite a few fire departments around here have a town siren that goes off, alerting people that somethings up and keep their eyes peeled for emergency vehicles
@adam022695 : Well put and you are right, many people do not yield the right of way to us either when we're responding to an emergency, little do they know it could be a friend or relative we're going to
@coolsax64 For you and all those others out there don't like being woke up by the siren, get over it. Next time you get woke up in the middle of the night by the town siren or an emergency vehicle why don't you say a little prayer that the people, who we are trying to serve, will actually live to see their family another day. We don't turn on the siren just for kicks, only the real deal and once a month at noon to make sure they work so when YOU need us we will be there.
honestly, i would prefer to have both pager and air siren alerts for a call rather than just pager. there are members that don't have a pager and rely on the siren to alert for calls. just saying
the sirens (CSEPP) where i live have 4 different distinct tones.. 2 of which i hope to never hear.. like i said it is a logical concept..but i'd be pissed if i got woke up by a siren just to find out someone had a minor wreck..
@E064 haha i love volenteer fire departments to, but y do u love them? i love them cuz my dads a fireman and crazy ass stuff goes on upstairs by the bar, its so funny, volenteer just have more fu period. so y do u like them
@Fireman6489 that sucks... but good point, i'd push and push to get grants...the group i work with alot of the equipment purchased we did with money from donations, fund raisers and personal "investments"
@ErinOnTheTube Then maybe you should move.... if you didn't know the risks in living next to a volunteer fire department, you really have no right to bitch. And if you are in a situation where you can't move, then I guess it's high time for you to make peace with the noise.
sorry but someones rescue at an mva is more important then your "right" to drive. Not to mention its not a right anyways iits a privilege. People don't ever get out of the way for ev's. I should know I'm an emt that drives emergency in a busy city. Sorry that you got woke up but someones life is worth more then your 15 mins of sleep you missed because tones were going off and someone responded to someones possible last mins on this earth.
oh i know my privilege takes a back seat to the well being of a citizen... what I'm saying is that instead of waking up half the county for a minor wreck ...there are grants for radio and paging systems to wake up only the vff's ...the emergency group i volunteer with we run 800mhz that tone out on a regular basis with vfd and what not........
They have run pagers since the 60's in that town. The vast majority or the people sleep through the siren, just like they do the constant train whistles blowing.
soooooo wake up the entire county to page fire fighters for a MVA? and whats with the siren use on the trucks...didnt seem to be much traffic..but i guess the tornado siren is an effective way of paging people....just dont seem like it would make the general public happy..but i guess VFD are different in each state.
i mean its a logical concept..but waking up the general public just to page out a handfull of fire fighters to a MVA is kind of over the top... we have county fire fighters here..but they mostly carry uhf/vhf radios...a few run 800mhz (under the CSEPP program)...wouldnt it be easier to run a radio or pager system? and as for keeping people off the road...tax payers they have every right to drive regaurdless of if there is an emergency or not ...provided they yield to on coming ev's
@coolsax64 For you and all those others out there don't like being woke up by the siren, get over it. Next time you get woke up in the middle of the night by the town siren or an emergency vehicle why don't you say a little prayer that the people, who we are trying to serve, will actually live to see their family another day. We don't turn on the siren just for kicks, only the real deal and once a month at noon to make sure they work so when YOU need us we will be there.
@coolsax64 For you and all those others out there don't like being woke up by the siren, get over it. Next time you get woke up in the middle of the night by the town siren or an emergency vehicle why don't you say a little prayer that the people, who we are trying to serve, will actually live to see their family another day. We don't turn on the siren just for kicks, only the real deal and once a month at noon to make sure they work so when YOU need us we will be there.
Don't know about here in this video but, back where I grew up at it was two seperate tones for fire and tornadoes. You could easily tell the difference since the fire tone was like the on in this video going on and off and the tornado one stayed on for 3-4 mins straight.
If your Fire Department still has the Siren. Like this.
Nothing I love more than a volunteer fd emergency siren.
Where I live at now is a combination system. You have to have your unit staffed with a crew to be dispatched to a call via an 800 mhz system. Where I grew up at in rural northeast iowa the fire department ran about 75-100 calls a year. If the pager/minitor system were to fail there that house siren would still sound and alert the members to respond to the station for a call.
My department still uses a house siren and we still use it quite often.
@ErinOnTheTube You have to understand, that cell phones you may not be able to hear at night. Now unless your town wants to pay for all the firefighters be equipt with Motorola pager, Which would cost around (for thats say 30 firefighters), will be around $25,000 (each pager being around $750). So, if your house catches on fire, Im sure you will be very happy to hear that siren
awesome video
I live in Garrett and soon I will be able to volunteer because this vid was same year I was born
Sounded like my man picked up the wrong mic.Good video my man.
Check out the Facebook page on the Cleveland,MS VFD...founded in 1920...and except for the maintenance person, remains all volunteer. A few years ago, their fire insurance class rating was dropped to 5...not bad at all for a VFD. The city where I live now is paid and fully staffed...and rated class 4. Love those VFD's
Never heard a ASC T-128 being used as a Firecall Siren did this replaced a Thunderbolt 1003 that was on or near the Fire Station also other Firecall Sirens that were used were 3T22s Model 5s and STH-10s all are Federal Signal Outdoor Warning Sirens
The louder and longer that siren blows, the better it is.
@coolsax64 Heaven forbid we would have to be momentarily inconvenienced by somebody's untimely misfortune with their heath or safety. And that particular siren has still been essential when heaven forbid I leave my pager lay on the counter while working outside or some other room of the house, and by looking at your tenure in the fire service I am guessing you have experienced that as well. Oh and sorry about the three replies early, I didn't think my post was going through.
Yep we do have a siren on the top of one of our buildings, but the only time it goes off is to signal 12 noon. Does the siren there go off every time there is a call for response????
wakes up the county fire fighters and tells the whole county to get off the damn roads so they can get through...quite a few fire departments around here have a town siren that goes off, alerting people that somethings up and keep their eyes peeled for emergency vehicles
@adam022695 : Well put and you are right, many people do not yield the right of way to us either when we're responding to an emergency, little do they know it could be a friend or relative we're going to
For everyone knowing what siren it is... It's an ASC TEMPEST 128
this sits where the old B&O roundhouse sat back in the steam era, and behind that the shops for putting the locos back togather after rebuild.
@coolsax64 For you and all those others out there don't like being woke up by the siren, get over it. Next time you get woke up in the middle of the night by the town siren or an emergency vehicle why don't you say a little prayer that the people, who we are trying to serve, will actually live to see their family another day. We don't turn on the siren just for kicks, only the real deal and once a month at noon to make sure they work so when YOU need us we will be there.
We also use the siren for both fd and tornado
my department uses pagers but we are switching over to text messages that has the type of call, address, and what apparatus is dispatched.
That is an AWESOME house siren. Do you know what kind it is?
Marcus Toroian it is an American signal T128
love it
i love it how you guys didnt go together but oh well lol
Like the siren blast. Bet the citizens love it at 3:30 am
No they don't the new people that just moved there will love it lol
honestly, i would prefer to have both pager and air siren alerts for a call rather than just pager. there are members that don't have a pager and rely on the siren to alert for calls. just saying
75 - 100 ? my station gets about 400 . kudos. i would be begging for a call if we only got 100
I love sirens
What kind of siren is it?
@E064 i love them too because i am a voltuneer fifre fighter
Is that a Tempest 128 siren I hear?
I still miss dragging my butt out of bed in the middle of the night for this.
is this in indiana i noticed the lutheran air video n was wondering
What is in the 3rd bay& do they use what is in that bay?????
Rescue Truck 51.
Is their a Ladder in this hall?
Canadian Emergency Buff no there is not a ladder
ASC T-128 siren sounding in attack, very cool!!
wow that siren scares the shi* out of me when ever that goes off out here it a tornado or somthing huge!!
the sirens (CSEPP) where i live have 4 different distinct tones.. 2 of which i hope to never hear.. like i said it is a logical concept..but i'd be pissed if i got woke up by a siren just to find out someone had a minor wreck..
Make more Garrett fire videos
@E064 haha i love volenteer fire departments to, but y do u love them? i love them cuz my dads a fireman and crazy ass stuff goes on upstairs by the bar, its so funny, volenteer just have more fu period. so y do u like them
no worries... i could have probably worded my comment differently
but what about the tornadoes...is it a seperate tone? or that kinda tone just for everything?
keep it up
@Fireman6489 that sucks... but good point, i'd push and push to get grants...the group i work with alot of the equipment purchased we did with money from donations, fund raisers and personal "investments"
In my country (Croatia), VFD are always alarmed with siren like this...It's normal to us...
@ErinOnTheTube it sounds like an apocalypse
my misunderstanding then.
@ErinOnTheTube
Then maybe you should move.... if you didn't know the risks in living next to a volunteer fire department, you really have no right to bitch. And if you are in a situation where you can't move, then I guess it's high time for you to make peace with the noise.
sorry but someones rescue at an mva is more important then your "right" to drive. Not to mention its not a right anyways iits a privilege. People don't ever get out of the way for ev's. I should know I'm an emt that drives emergency in a busy city. Sorry that you got woke up but someones life is worth more then your 15 mins of sleep you missed because tones were going off and someone responded to someones possible last mins on this earth.
It can get annoyingannoying
oh i know my privilege takes a back seat to the well being of a citizen... what I'm saying is that instead of waking up half the county for a minor wreck ...there are grants for radio and paging systems to wake up only the vff's ...the emergency group i volunteer with we run 800mhz that tone out on a regular basis with vfd and what not........
They have run pagers since the 60's in that town. The vast majority or the people sleep through the siren, just like they do the constant train whistles blowing.
soooooo wake up the entire county to page fire fighters for a MVA? and whats with the siren use on the trucks...didnt seem to be much traffic..but i guess the tornado siren is an effective way of paging people....just dont seem like it would make the general public happy..but i guess VFD are different in each state.
i mean its a logical concept..but waking up the general public just to page out a handfull of fire fighters to a MVA is kind of over the top... we have county fire fighters here..but they mostly carry uhf/vhf radios...a few run 800mhz (under the CSEPP program)...wouldnt it be easier to run a radio or pager system? and as for keeping people off the road...tax payers they have every right to drive regaurdless of if there is an emergency or not ...provided they yield to on coming ev's
@coolsax64 For you and all those others out there don't like being woke up by the siren, get over it. Next time you get woke up in the middle of the night by the town siren or an emergency vehicle why don't you say a little prayer that the people, who we are trying to serve, will actually live to see their family another day. We don't turn on the siren just for kicks, only the real deal and once a month at noon to make sure they work so when YOU need us we will be there.
@coolsax64 For you and all those others out there don't like being woke up by the siren, get over it. Next time you get woke up in the middle of the night by the town siren or an emergency vehicle why don't you say a little prayer that the people, who we are trying to serve, will actually live to see their family another day. We don't turn on the siren just for kicks, only the real deal and once a month at noon to make sure they work so when YOU need us we will be there.