i love how everyone comes in pickup trucks, and then there's that one guy, probably named Gary, who drives a freaking PT Cruiser. hahaha. god bless those guys!
I worked on a volunteer city in Wyoming...we were 5X national champions 1979-84 for fast response...this video is a shining example of an efficient volunteer station!
Big Grain elevators in the background. Volunteers are farmers who know nothing moves faster than a fire in a wheat field. Those that aren't manning the fire apparatus are plowing fire breaks in the fields in front of the fire. Just ask the wheat farmers in North Central Oregon who had to respond over and over this year. Even the state and federal fire agencies step back and say there are NONE BETTER at fighting wind driven wildfires than the farmers.
That's the way it SHOULD be. Rip into the lot, jump out, and HAUL ASS into the station. These volies move faster than most PAID departments these days!
we still touch off the old siren on the roof of our station when ever there is a structure fire....its effective, especially with the spotty radio reception we were left with after narrowbanding..
And the siren is blowing the whole time. Most of the volunteer fire companies in my area still have "fire whistles" as this one. Some had to be took down due to new residents moving in and not being happy with the routine sounds and activities of the already existing departments. I think it's a great tool to use one extra audible alert that gets the firefighters pumped up and ready to roll while enroute to a call to service.
Had this at my old department. The public knew to get out of the way, even when the new paging systems came in. Eventually they took it down and many people missed it in town. As said before a great backup to the paging system
Any one who doesnt like it can MOVE to another area. The fire siren is exactly that - when my house is burning, I want the fire fighters awoken by pager, siren, horn, shake, quake, lights, etc - and so would you.
Do all those volunteers live less than mile from the station?? I have never seen that many volunteers pull up to a station within a 1 minute span of time, that was about 10 ppl in a minute, impressive.
It was the same from in the little village I was living in up in the highlands of Scotland called kinlochleven my partner and his father were retained fire fighters there only had a population of around 1000 people
AKA how you alert firemen in most small communities in America that have volunteer departments. Dunno why Reddit is so amazed at this. Maybe if they left their basements, they'd realise how things run.
The members of my local VFD always manage to find a parking spot in the parking lot, no matter how big the fire.My late uncle was a member and chief in a VFD in upstate NY. His house happened to be on the highest spot in town, so that's where the fire siren was located. His wife and kids all knew that whoever was home when the call came out was to turn on the siren. There was a switch on the wall marked "FIRE SIREN - DO NOT TOUCH".
I have no idea whatsoever how anyone could possibly have pushed thumbs down on this video. I’m going to guess that it’s because they think that the people who live in North Dakota are somehow less intelligent than they are. I was born there and now live in Seattle. North Dakotan’s are extraordinarily resilient, community oriented, and care deeply about their neighbors. I cannot think of one reason whatsoever you would push thumbs down on this video. Absolutely floors me. And the guy with the PT cruiser… His pickup was in the shop and he had to drive his wife’s car. Ha!
The volunteer department in the town I grew up in, and would later serve on, had an air raid siren top the station. It was vital before the days of radios and pagers. It was decommissioned around 2005 when the department switched to a regional dispatch system. Hearing that siren was a big part of growing up in a small Maine town.
Small town America all did it like this before the days of the special phone install and then replaced by pagers. But a lot of small small towns still have this system hooked up and stick with it. Great way to alert farmers out in the fields that are volunteer Fire Fighters.
Most volunteer departments still have the siren so the community knows whats going on. as well as the volunteers who may not happen to have their pager on. This happens thousands of times a day all over the country
My grandfather was the Chief of our volunteer department. Always kept his pants over his shoes next to the bed so he just pulled them up in the middle of the night and out the door. The sound of a fire siren means help is on the way!
LOL. Cool. We just give our members Pajamas to sleep in that they can where out the door lol. Called Quick Response Apparel. Basically just flannels with Dept. Logo.
yea, this is volunteer firefighters such as myself in small communities are alerted for calls. Their siren goes off much longer than the one at my firehouse and this siren is fairly annoying with how long it runs but it works.
Nick Jones Our firehouse siren only goes off for one round, and only for fire calls nowadays. It used to sound off for medic assist calls, but they quit doing that years ago. I wish they still did that for medic assist calls, it’s freaking annoying when I’m doing yard work and don’t know there’s a call until my cell phone blows up with the text alerts.
DAMN, those guys are hauling ass! Nice to see there's still SOME FD's in this country that take the job seriously (instead of just treating it as a paycheck).
It is nice seeing somebody who takes being a vollie seriously. I've sat in our squad truck for 5 minutes in the bays waiting for the driver to get in gear. To make things worse, we were responding to a cardiac arrest. That was the first patient I lost. Just wish I would have pushed the driver a little harder, but being a Jr, I don't have a lot of weight to throw around. He was actually considering just not going and shutting all the doors and making it look like there was nobody at the station.
Not sure what the timer is set on for that siren, but to get that many guys and three pieces on the road before the siren is done is impressive. Well done brothers. Makes me proud to be a volunteer. 👍
Everyone in town talks for the next week about "what was that fire call on Sunday?" and poor Mrs. Snodgrass is just humiliated that she burned the dinner she was cooking causing air raid sirens reminiscent of WW II, back when the towns population was a mere 12, instead of the 19 it is today.
Not only ND, We still have them out here in PA amish country, my dad and i are both volunteer firefighters! we live about 3 miles out and honestly its amazing how fast everyone is there. usually withing minutes
The one good thing about the siren is the whole town knows there's a fire and to watch out for the guys responding so they can get out of the way or keep the possibility of an accident down.
We used the siren for the Volunteer firefighters at the Washington Township Volunteer Fire Station base 60. All the volunteer firefighters rushed inside of the fire station 60 in time.But We the Fort Wayne Firefighters don't use siren for our fire stations in the city of Fort Wayne,Indiana.
@@keagenallard8740 yeah, cause properly parking takes SO MUCH LONGER TO DO. Never mind the guy who came pretty close to getting run over at 0:35. But yeah. Quick is best. Last guy started to pull into the parking lot and couldn't cause of all the piss poor parking jobs everyone did. Oh, and then they roll their BRUSH TRUCK first and their MINI PUMPER second. I'm assuming by "fire alarm", they mean an automatic alert, from a residential/commercial fire alarm. 🤦♂️
I get to alot of these small towns during the course of my employment and every so often I hear this. Of course where I'm from this is a tornado siren, so my heart skips a beat and I start looking to the skys. Then it dawns on me, ahhh probably a VFD ring down.
It's also used as Tornado siren in most towns. However, it blows steady non-stop for a minute or two. Here it is 5 10 second blast for fire, 3 10 second blast for medical. 1 30 second for Firefighter last call and 1 minute steady for Tornado.
SO HAPPY YOU FIND THIS AMUSING. they are all volunteers and the siren is to let them know they are needed. grew up in small town ND and when you hear that sound you know all able bodied are to come to help.you think its humorous? you are across the street. what if your house was burning miles away and you heard that sound??? hmmm? mmmkay then
god bless the Volunteer firefighters of America. 75% of the US is all volunteers and it's a great importance that more volunteer. Ask your local fire department if they need volunteers you could save someone's life before any one else would get there.
@@geebee6010 Yes. Can't miss that video game time! First off. Basic classes are normally just 2 nights a week and often in 2 1/2- 3 1/2 hours. Second it only takes about 4 months. That is FF1. All you have to have for most small town FD's. I had on top of that FF2, Confined Space, High Angle, Industrial, HAZMAT. EMT-B and EMT-P. So about 6 years worth of training. Granted the EMT-P was full time or would be about 9 years. It's all up to what you want in life and what is needed where you are. Even with all that training I have only ever done 2 years as a professional. All the rest was volunteer. YOU CAN FIND THE TIME for things that are important to you! Cliques?????????????? DUH, ya think! It's a bunch of peeps who risk their lives and train while others play games and do hobbies! OF COURSE IT'S CLIQUEY!
It should be noted that this is not likely the only method of notification. Most departments at least issue Minitor analog voice pagers or radios. The siren, in addition to alerting other personnel, also alerts local residents that volunteers are on their way to the station for a call.
I've experienced this first hand as a firefighter ( I put in my time as a volunteer and also as a paid firefighter/medic) but mostly I've been on departments that responded to the scene in POV with "blue lights" having gone through an EVOC ( traveling mostly the speed limit and mostly obeying the rules of the road. The cops get to know you pretty quick so no craziness is allowed!
Honestly makes me want to be a firefighter in a small town. Probably a hard job to get but it looked like everyone was so on point with living close and knowing how to park fast and get going. I love that sort of teamwork in a job. Maybe since I crave structure in the workplace something unpredictable yet so well coordinated would be ideal to shoot for.
The TNT Mancave Im a volunteer, it's also not a job. We consider it a public service where Im at. These guys are volunteer because paid guys sit at the firehouse while volunteers respond from home.
These are volunteer firefighters. They respond to the station. Paid guys stay at the station. Also, getting a paid job as a firefighter is difficult considering 3/4 of firefighters are volunteer.
Yes this is a volunteer entity. This Bottineau, ND. The sirens go off every time there is a fire call. I live about 2 miles from the fire house and can still hear the sirens.
Robert M In most small towns it triples as a tornado warning and a civil defense warning. In my small town in the early 60's it came on and stuck on for about 5 minutes, the signal for an air raid.
Some small towns still have fire sirens. Many have stopped due to complaints and the modernization of technology. They also sound too much like the tornado sirens and dont want to cause unnecessary alarm. Most departments issue their members portable radios or fire pagers. Those sirens really went on a long time though. Usually when apparatus is responding, they stop as the responders have acknowledged the call. I love how the parking lot is a free for all. I am a Volunteer firefighter and we park properly in our lot or you will piss people off.
Only place I've ever seen this type of alert system in person was in Duncan BC on Vancouver Island while I was going to VIU the school is across from the fire hall and during my just over a month at the course the air raid alarm went off 3 times, it was quite the experience, each time the class stopped and we observed as people came rushing in to the hall! I am now a volunteer fire fighter and wish our small community had a similar way to let us know, but the Pager will have to do for now lol
Yep thats the standard rocking up for a fire call pretty much same thing happened during my years as a volunteer firey here in South Australia it was generally a case of first at station gets best park that was before a permanent car park was put in
![[Station Siren] East branch volunteer fire district going on a response in Upstate New York.](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/bRPaO2KPEOs/mqdefault.jpg)
i love how everyone comes in pickup trucks, and then there's that one guy, probably named Gary, who drives a freaking PT Cruiser. hahaha. god bless those guys!
lml dead
gary is a dick
dont be gary
I drive a pt cruiser
hi gary
I worked on a volunteer city in Wyoming...we were 5X national champions 1979-84 for fast response...this video is a shining example of an efficient volunteer station!
Where at in Wyoming. I'm currently on the Lander Volunteer fire department.
I’m from Casper and i’m considering joining the fire service
I volunteer currently. Thank You for you're service. I wouldn't take a dime I love it so much. Stay safe and Healthy
@@briangleason5597 can I ask you this? Do you sometimes respond in the middle of the night or are you more of a respond during the day person
Requirements for a volunteer is to drive a pickup truck
Rusty S right?!
It seems like that's the case, but there is an Ford Aerostar minivan there as well..., as well as Chrysler PT Cruiser.
Rusty S wrong.as a volunteer in ky i had 250 hours of state fire school training
Humor James, Humor. Sit back, relax and enjoy a joke once in a while.
What a cluster fuck that parking was. This has to be a joke...
Big Grain elevators in the background. Volunteers are farmers who know nothing moves faster than a fire in a wheat field. Those that aren't manning the fire apparatus are plowing fire breaks in the fields in front of the fire. Just ask the wheat farmers in North Central Oregon who had to respond over and over this year. Even the state and federal fire agencies step back and say there are NONE BETTER at fighting wind driven wildfires than the farmers.
Legend says the station siren still sounds to this day.
Its amazing how fast they flock to the station, like it's happy hour at Hooters.
That's the way it SHOULD be. Rip into the lot, jump out, and HAUL ASS into the station. These volies move faster than most PAID departments these days!
@@redbaron474 facts
@@redbaron474 couldn't agree more
we still touch off the old siren on the roof of our station when ever there is a structure fire....its effective, especially with the spotty radio reception we were left with after narrowbanding..
Not going to lie it was a quick response time
This is a Pick up town, I could remember same thing in my town back in the early 70's Thanks for sharing
love the video, thats how you respond to a fire call. those guys are faster then any of the fire crews in my town. good job guys
It's probably a tiny town that everyone lives within a mile of the station
And the siren is blowing the whole time. Most of the volunteer fire companies in my area still have "fire whistles" as this one. Some had to be took down due to new residents moving in and not being happy with the routine sounds and activities of the already existing departments. I think it's a great tool to use one extra audible alert that gets the firefighters pumped up and ready to roll while enroute to a call to service.
Ron Roberts it sure works when paging system is down
Ron Roberts we still have this at our dept. sounds the same. But only last 90 seconds.
Had this at my old department. The public knew to get out of the way, even when the new paging systems came in. Eventually they took it down and many people missed it in town. As said before a great backup to the paging system
We have a system like this, but it is only used atop the fire house and is when the trucks are rolling or if it's an 'all out' empty the station call.
Any one who doesnt like it can MOVE to another area. The fire siren is exactly that - when my house is burning, I want the fire fighters awoken by pager, siren, horn, shake, quake, lights, etc - and so would you.
Do all those volunteers live less than mile from the station??
I have never seen that many volunteers pull up to a station within a 1 minute span of time, that was about 10 ppl in a minute, impressive.
Always gonna be close to your station if you're a volunteer
Bill Blast I describe our distance to our town’s firehouse as being “20 seconds if you’re not fussy about stop signs!”
Here you have to be less than five miles from the station.
It was the same from in the little village I was living in up in the highlands of Scotland called kinlochleven my partner and his father were retained fire fighters there only had a population of around 1000 people
@@mjp5429 On my department, I have an 8 minute time to the station, even running emergent
AKA how you alert firemen in most small communities in America that have volunteer departments. Dunno why Reddit is so amazed at this. Maybe if they left their basements, they'd realise how things run.
matthmatthmatth lol exactly
we have 2 way radios
matthmatthmatth we have pagers and radios
It's not that for us in the Province of Québec. We have CB and we are advised about the fire and the location etc. :)
Armyconrad So do we, but we still use the siren, because the pagers don't always go off.
The members of my local VFD always manage to find a parking spot in the parking lot, no matter how big the fire.My late uncle was a member and chief in a VFD in upstate NY. His house happened to be on the highest spot in town, so that's where the fire siren was located. His wife and kids all knew that whoever was home when the call came out was to turn on the siren. There was a switch on the wall marked "FIRE SIREN - DO NOT TOUCH".
KRB52 I'd have urage to hit it in the middle of the night and have the guy running lol 😂
KRB52 Yea, That cluster won’t be good if they need to get the ladder out.
I thought the fire siren was always located at the station
I have no idea whatsoever how anyone could possibly have pushed thumbs down on this video. I’m going to guess that it’s because they think that the people who live in North Dakota are somehow less intelligent than they are. I was born there and now live in Seattle. North Dakotan’s are extraordinarily resilient, community oriented, and care deeply about their neighbors. I cannot think of one reason whatsoever you would push thumbs down on this video. Absolutely floors me.
And the guy with the PT cruiser… His pickup was in the shop and he had to drive his wife’s car. Ha!
The volunteer department in the town I grew up in, and would later serve on, had an air raid siren top the station. It was vital before the days of radios and pagers. It was decommissioned around 2005 when the department switched to a regional dispatch system. Hearing that siren was a big part of growing up in a small Maine town.
Pick up truck after pick up truck
Did you see the PT cruiser slide in there?
LML
card797 Wifes car, truck probably in the shop.
And the first Department vehicle to come out... a pick up!
Plus a PT Cruiser and a Ford Areostar minivan
I'm impressed by the quick response considering how spread out small towns can be.
Wow this is incredible to watch it all happens so fast I love it
Ron Roberts meanwhile on the inside there's a fist fight for who gets to drive the shiny Chevy
Small town America all did it like this before the days of the special phone install and then replaced by pagers. But a lot of small small towns still have this system hooked up and stick with it. Great way to alert farmers out in the fields that are volunteer Fire Fighters.
No it's not. Can't hear it..
Most volunteer departments still have the siren so the community knows whats going on. as well as the volunteers who may not happen to have their pager on. This happens thousands of times a day all over the country
Damn they have good manpower response.
My grandfather was the Chief of our volunteer department. Always kept his pants over his shoes next to the bed so he just pulled them up in the middle of the night and out the door. The sound of a fire siren means help is on the way!
LOL. Cool. We just give our members Pajamas to sleep in that they can where out the door lol. Called Quick Response Apparel. Basically just flannels with Dept. Logo.
yea, this is volunteer firefighters such as myself in small communities are alerted for calls. Their siren goes off much longer than the one at my firehouse and this siren is fairly annoying with how long it runs but it works.
Nick Jones yeah, the fire houses by me only use 4 cycles of attack. Not 15 like this. This is a federal signal model 5.
Nick Jones Our firehouse siren only goes off for one round, and only for fire calls nowadays. It used to sound off for medic assist calls, but they quit doing that years ago. I wish they still did that for medic assist calls, it’s freaking annoying when I’m doing yard work and don’t know there’s a call until my cell phone blows up with the text alerts.
I DANCE WHERE THE DEVIL WALKS. I FIGHT WHAT YOU FEAR. VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS BECAUSE IT TAKES BALLS TO GO IN A BURNING BUILND NOT GET PAID FOR IT.
Yea mine just goes off once but it isnt that style of siren
Ours goes off until someone radios state radio that we're responding.
Every single one of them had a pickup truck. That's North Dakota for you.
Love how these guys are to their job. Just love the way they immediatly stop their trucks and run into the fire dept.
I love how every last one of them rolled up in a pickup lmao
And the one guy in a pt cruiser😂😂
Except Gary!
The one fire call per year, and they get over excited and can't park right..lol But props for volunteers!!
North Dakota Pick Up Fire Dept. NDPUFD
Sameway firefighters are alerted over here at my local VFD station!! Same siren too!
DAMN, those guys are hauling ass! Nice to see there's still SOME FD's in this country that take the job seriously (instead of just treating it as a paycheck).
It is nice seeing somebody who takes being a vollie seriously. I've sat in our squad truck for 5 minutes in the bays waiting for the driver to get in gear. To make things worse, we were responding to a cardiac arrest. That was the first patient I lost. Just wish I would have pushed the driver a little harder, but being a Jr, I don't have a lot of weight to throw around. He was actually considering just not going and shutting all the doors and making it look like there was nobody at the station.
@@matthewwoosley7028 And the really sad part is, in our country HE would get sympathy while YOU would get fired & vilified for daring to report him.
They are hoobyist tho so it isn’t a job...
@@seenofaith99 Yet "HOBBYISTS" as you call them tend to be more trustworthy and reliable than those who do it as a 'career'
Ah, the good ol’ days. when you had a daytime call and more than one person responded to the station...
Looks like a pick-up truck meet.
Bob Barr but one guy who pulls up in a Pt cruiser lol
Not sure what the timer is set on for that siren, but to get that many guys and three pieces on the road before the siren is done is impressive. Well done brothers. Makes me proud to be a volunteer. 👍
There is always that one guy who uses his wife mini van after everyone already agreed to drive your own Truck to the station.
Everyone in town talks for the next week about "what was that fire call on Sunday?" and poor Mrs. Snodgrass is just humiliated that she burned the dinner she was cooking causing air raid sirens reminiscent of WW II, back when the towns population was a mere 12, instead of the 19 it is today.
It’s 3,000 but close 😂
Not only ND, We still have them out here in PA amish country, my dad and i are both volunteer firefighters! we live about 3 miles out and honestly its amazing how fast everyone is there. usually withing minutes
Definitely got my Department beat on response time but I think we got POV parking down a little better
First two knuckleheads screwed up the parking lot for everyone else!
My dad was a volunteer for 30+ years. "Neighbors helping neighbors". Awesome to see
Damn that station has a LOT of volunteers
Yep. The fire 'whistle' was common to all towns with volunteer FDs for years. Kind of successors to the bell/triangle, no?
The one good thing about the siren is the whole town knows there's a fire and to watch out for the guys responding so they can get out of the way or keep the possibility of an accident down.
We used the siren for the Volunteer firefighters at the Washington Township Volunteer Fire Station base 60. All the volunteer firefighters rushed inside of the fire station 60 in time.But We the Fort Wayne Firefighters don't use siren for our fire stations in the city of Fort Wayne,Indiana.
In the Southeast, we have this new thing called parking... maybe one day those guys will hear of it 😂😂
When there is a fire there really is no time to stop and properly park
@@keagenallard8740 yeah, cause properly parking takes SO MUCH LONGER TO DO.
Never mind the guy who came pretty close to getting run over at 0:35. But yeah. Quick is best. Last guy started to pull into the parking lot and couldn't cause of all the piss poor parking jobs everyone did.
Oh, and then they roll their BRUSH TRUCK first and their MINI PUMPER second. I'm assuming by "fire alarm", they mean an automatic alert, from a residential/commercial fire alarm. 🤦♂️
Why? OCD can be treated,
They rolled the grass unit first because it was obviously a grass fire, retard.
God damm, the fist man there turns the damm siren off...
Thats how it was for most all fire departments back in the day, before they got the pagers. Our department still uses ours and our pagers.
Where I live, it's 100 percent volunteer. We have the same siren, and all firefighters have pagers on them.
What a small volunteer fire department.
Omg! Those parking jobs😂
you call, they come arunning. GREAT video!
I get to alot of these small towns during the course of my employment and every so often I hear this. Of course where I'm from this is a tornado siren, so my heart skips a beat and I start looking to the skys. Then it dawns on me, ahhh probably a VFD ring down.
It's also used as Tornado siren in most towns. However, it blows steady non-stop for a minute or two. Here it is 5 10 second blast for fire, 3 10 second blast for medical. 1 30 second for Firefighter last call and 1 minute steady for Tornado.
All the guys pulling up in pick-ups, then you got that one in the PT Cruiser lol 😂 love it
Edit: damn 9 pick-ups
I grew up in a very small Michigan town and we had this for a long time. It's done by pager. I miss it, but not at 2 am.
SO HAPPY YOU FIND THIS AMUSING. they are all volunteers and the siren is to let them know they are needed. grew up in small town ND and when you hear that sound you know all able bodied are to come to help.you think its humorous? you are across the street. what if your house was burning miles away and you heard that sound??? hmmm? mmmkay then
Calm your tits.
Consider them as minute men. Not just first responders, fast responders. God bless all you volunteer fire fighters everywhere.
god bless the Volunteer firefighters of America. 75% of the US is all volunteers and it's a great importance that more volunteer. Ask your local fire department if they need volunteers you could save someone's life before any one else would get there.
BD-Kota NOOBER I'm one of that 75%
It’s too cliquish here in PA and I don’t have the time to sit through 6+ months of fire school.
@@geebee6010 but you get to be awesome and have "wippy-woos" in your pov.
BD-Kota NOOBER I’m one of that proud 75% too, and have been for 19 years now.
@@geebee6010 Yes. Can't miss that video game time! First off. Basic classes are normally just 2 nights a week and often in 2 1/2- 3 1/2 hours. Second it only takes about 4 months. That is FF1. All you have to have for most small town FD's. I had on top of that FF2, Confined Space, High Angle, Industrial, HAZMAT. EMT-B and EMT-P. So about 6 years worth of training. Granted the EMT-P was full time or would be about 9 years. It's all up to what you want in life and what is needed where you are. Even with all that training I have only ever done 2 years as a professional. All the rest was volunteer. YOU CAN FIND THE TIME for things that are important to you! Cliques?????????????? DUH, ya think! It's a bunch of peeps who risk their lives and train while others play games and do hobbies! OF COURSE IT'S CLIQUEY!
When only one of them was actually a Firefighter and the rest were all just friends that happened to be headed over and herd the siren.
It should be noted that this is not likely the only method of notification. Most departments at least issue Minitor analog voice pagers or radios. The siren, in addition to alerting other personnel, also alerts local residents that volunteers are on their way to the station for a call.
Love those oldies Responding!
10 guys to the station and out the door that quick? That's pretty damn good!
love how they show up roughly at the same time :D
I've experienced this first hand as a firefighter ( I put in my time as a volunteer and also as a paid firefighter/medic) but mostly I've been on departments that responded to the scene in POV with "blue lights" having gone through an EVOC ( traveling mostly the speed limit and mostly obeying the rules of the road. The cops get to know you pretty quick so no craziness is allowed!
Looked like it was going to be smash up derby in the parking lot. LoL
It's a race to see who can get to the station first. When it's a tie, there's a fistfight to see who goes on the truck.
Chad Stone so true 😂 or if an officer isn't there when the truck rolls its about who gets to sit up front! 😂
no
True if it's a working job, not true if it's an alarm system.
hahahahahahahahah
Loololol
Awesome video, I remember this siren as a kid in Tennessee
I miss the town siren. If I'm up at 2am you are too.
Honestly makes me want to be a firefighter in a small town. Probably a hard job to get but it looked like everyone was so on point with living close and knowing how to park fast and get going. I love that sort of teamwork in a job. Maybe since I crave structure in the workplace something unpredictable yet so well coordinated would be ideal to shoot for.
+HighOnAmmo These guys are most likely volunteers and don't get paid for the job. so it's a pretty easy job to get
+HighOnAmmo Hello Steve. lmao
The TNT Mancave Im a volunteer, it's also not a job. We consider it a public service where Im at. These guys are volunteer because paid guys sit at the firehouse while volunteers respond from home.
Volunteer fire companies are very cliquish
These are volunteer firefighters. They respond to the station. Paid guys stay at the station. Also, getting a paid job as a firefighter is difficult considering 3/4 of firefighters are volunteer.
Yes this is a volunteer entity. This Bottineau, ND. The sirens go off every time there is a fire call. I live about 2 miles from the fire house and can still hear the sirens.
Robert M In most small towns it triples as a tornado warning and a civil defense warning. In my small town in the early 60's it came on and stuck on for about 5 minutes, the signal for an air raid.
Same here in Kansas for the volunteer departments
Turns out fire fighters over there all drive pick ups haha
Bet the neighbour's love that prehistoric call out in the middle of the night lol ,???
Absolutely love the sound of the siren. We have the same one at our fire station here in Australia
If that's the first dispatch that's a vary good department !!!!!!
moved from NYS in 1982. In our county VFD still used this system. Boy do i miss it
What you may not know it is a race to be the first one there. Because you get to choose what rig you drive. First come first serve , lol
In reverse this video shows firemen showing up and everybody gets the hell outta there
That Aerostar made me smile
God Bless and keep our Volunteer FireFighters...Heros may god be with you as you help others!
These voly boys responded faster than many of the professional depts now-a-days!
thats pretty much how we do it in ky too
These guys hustle. Nice that the town doesn't bitch about the noise.
Nice video Man!!!
I really miss this.
There are these little black boxes every vol firefighter wears called a pager
Some small towns still have fire sirens. Many have stopped due to complaints and the modernization of technology. They also sound too much like the tornado sirens and dont want to cause unnecessary alarm. Most departments issue their members portable radios or fire pagers. Those sirens really went on a long time though. Usually when apparatus is responding, they stop as the responders have acknowledged the call.
I love how the parking lot is a free for all. I am a Volunteer firefighter and we park properly in our lot or you will piss people off.
“We don’t care about the parking, we care about the emergency.”
Town I live in here in South Dakota still uses a fire whistle
They used to have them here in Illinois too and then people complained and they got rid of them. Yes, a lot of them had pickups too.
The fire man I think it's an army of firemen
North Dakota volunteer fire department at it's finest
Federal Signal Model 7A
And did they have any bigger rigs than just those 2 smaller trucks? I saw a tanker outside, is it active.
Its like a bunch of druggies are rushing to a doctor's office who hands out free drugs when it opens in the morning
poor dude left his blinker on
I miss that sound.
Amazed these guys didnt crash into each other going into the parking lot.
That's the way it was done in rural Idaho where I grew up.
Where is the siren located? I can't see it anywhere in the video.
Only place I've ever seen this type of alert system in person was in Duncan BC on Vancouver Island while I was going to VIU the school is across from the fire hall and during my just over a month at the course the air raid alarm went off 3 times, it was quite the experience, each time the class stopped and we observed as people came rushing in to the hall!
I am now a volunteer fire fighter and wish our small community had a similar way to let us know, but the Pager will have to do for now lol
That's how they alert firemen in Iowa to
Yep thats the standard rocking up for a fire call pretty much same thing happened during my years as a volunteer firey here in South Australia it was generally a case of first at station gets best park that was before a permanent car park was put in
This is how they alert them in every german town under 100k people.