Shamokin City Hall Fire Horns

Take a walk with Bill Milbrand as he shows us some nostalgia from Shamokin, featuring the horns that once sat on top of City Hall to alert the town of a fire.
The horns would ring out in a morse-code like sequence that would determine the neighborhood/location of the fire.

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Pottsville still has those pull boxes, last I looked.
I was leaving the then church across the street from Shamokin's City Hall one evening from playing volleyball when those horns went off to announce that it was 6 or 7 o'clock or so. Still standing on an inside corner of the building across the street which echoed the sound from the two walls, plus from the horns directly across the street, made for an extremely loud experience.

[@rickbeidleman1928]

OMG! I remember that sound vividly when visiting my grandparents. They lived on E. Church St., about a block or so from CH. they scared the crap out of me! Especially in the summer with all the windows open. Incredibly loud.

[@ShamokinHistoryChannel]

I have nightmares from hearing that sound in the middle of the night. We lived by Raspberry Hill so we got that extra echo sound that was even scarier!

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That and the petrified head at CH was enough to give anyone nightmares.