people will always complain bout the siren but when the pager fails and the phones are down(in a thunderstorm) its the siren that gets folks to the hall and too that 2 alarm fire and or heart attack/V.S.A...
I had some friends whose house was directly under a Thunderbolt siren....they despised that thing...until one afternoon their house caught fire....then that attack sound was the sweetest music they'd heard.
I remember when I first joined the local Volunteer Fire Dept near my home, they did not have any Pagers at all. All they had was the house Siren, and a Telephone Call System, and when people heard the Siren go off, they picked up the phone, and started calling up the Fire Dept Members and telling them to report to the Station to answer the Fire Call. They had to use the Siren on every single Call, no matter what time of the day, or night it was. That was way back in September of 1985 when I started running Calls. Lots of great progress has been made with how the Members are notified for Calls these days compared to way back then.
Here in Alabama when you hear a siren like that everyone would hit there tornado safe rooms. we have the Minitor 5's and also 2-way radios with PL tones and everyone carries them. it's cool how some other areas still use the Sirens to notify the firefighters to respond. awesome video
This reminds me of being a kid in a small town in Northeast Georgia. We would hear the siren once or twice a month from the volunteer fire department. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for arriving to what USE to be my home. I don't mind that I lost everything after all you tried to get here under 10 min. & it took you another 20 to lay all them hoses out all nice & pretty.
I remember when every fire house used the house siren. I didnt think anyone used it anymore. We stopped using ours in 1995. I could hear 4 different ones from my home.
Years ago, I lived in Cleveland, MS which had an all volunteer fire department...and an insurance class 5 rating. Needless to say, they were on the move. They had pagers as well as overheads...two were Thunderbolts...the others some ancient relics...One day there was a stove fire just down the street...within 45 seconds of the sirens activation, the first volunteer passed the house...within a minute and a half, the firs truck was on scene...less than three minutes later, the second truck arrived
at our firehouse, they've been using the same one for as long as I can remember, and I live right down the road. They have various other ones in the city but I only hear ours. Our siren sounds almost exactly like this one.
@Thewoog34 I've seen a Federal Model 5, but not on a pole like this one. The Federal Model 5 I saw was on a pole between two poles right behind a store up Lycoming Creek near Old Lycoming Township. I used to hear a 6:00 siren test, and I don't mean six minute siren test. The siren test started at 6:00 every Monday evening, and the sirens heard were sounded for one minute exactly. Sirens heard were a classic STH-10 and a 3T22, the STH-10 did Attack while the 3T22 did Alternate Wail.
The air horn was the classic way to alert volunteers of an incoming call back probably during the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s into the 1970s. Then came fire sirens, the sirens you still hear today from up to a mile and a half away from the fire station where the siren is located. My hometown has an STH-10 fire siren, Erick fire siren, and a diaphone. Anybody got any idea on what the diaphone at fire station 10 is? I'm used to the horn, but the type is unknown. Help me find out the type.
I went to germany and i did not know about this, that fire stations had those sirens, and then the siren went off when i was sleeping, and i thought there was a tornado and ran to the basement. LOL
Our dept had a siren like that and at the time we had no pagers or radios like today,when a call would come in they had all the firefighters home phone numbers and someone would call us and let us know what address to go to.
I grew up in a small town and if the siren went off every one in the community kicedk on the scanner as most families both parents were in the VFD and the kids got to know whose house to go to if it was a fire or medical to wait for the aults to get home..
Things are getting too modern for me though :) I recall when we were kids (I'm 41) when every guy on the Dept. had 2 phones -1 his own, 1 connected to the station's #. The first guy to answer would run hit the alarm (as above) and everyone else available would run to the station. I remember when they had to go pump water out of the lake on rare instances when the trucks were empty! Back then they had 20 guys on each Dept. and I think you could count the # of guys who weren't farmers on 1 hand!
@Haunted100808 just because they have radios doesnt mean they have them on or are in haering distance. i put mine on when im in the car or at night to wake me up but during the day when im home its turned off or charging.
My dad is in the fire department his company is zone1 and are truck number is 166 and we have the same siren i wood here it at 12:00 o'clock and when my dad gets a call
And my dad is a ex_cap and my dad has been in the fire department for 26 or 25 years and my friend dad is part of the same fire department and they have been officers in the fire department at the same time and my friends dad is a captain now
@fireman1 where i'm at the time when your tested and what is stated in code is 2 min for volly station most paid will be out in less than a min. i know that it can take upwards to ten min and i'm not sayin anything bout a bad response time they actually did really good
Are you a city kid? :) In volunteer places the first to answer the phone call (most have 2 lines for everyone on the Department:1 personal & 1 for the station) has to get there & turn the siren on to signal the rest. They all have to drop what they're doing (many have to turn everything in the barn off or run in from the field), drive to the station, get into gear, THEN get the trucks going. Not like in the city where they're fully staffed 24/7 and all the guys are already at the station.
@@SouthGeorgiaSirens Hilarious, I didn't think you'd reply. I see videos all the time of what I think is a Model 7' and people say 5. I always look for the larger bottom cone for Model 7's aside from the sound. I still get confused by T variants.
@@WillyBillyBoy24 I know for a fact the ones with the larger, more angled, lower louver are Federal Electric era (Fedelcode) type 5/7s. Also what about the T variants confuse you?
So clearly something needs to be done. I'd suggest if a town can install hydrants having a hose attachment like what is found in some buildings set off to the side. this would allow those who are on scene to begin an outside attack till you folks get there with more equipment There is this one video where a VFD responds to an apt. fire a hydrants across from the burning building. Had maintenance been able to start an attack they could have contained it to one unit. instead it took out FOUR.
I have seen paid unionized fire department run in circles for an hour and a half because all the hydrants were dry! It was an abandoned grain depot at a harbour. They didn’t know what to do! Yet 15 feet down was Lake Superior! It never occurred to them to use their 4 inch ridged suction into the lake and draft! It took 90 whole mins! By then their ladder truck had sustained heavy heat damage!
That's the biggest problem. By the time everyone gets to the station & pulls out the building is a total loss. Second In almost EVERY VFD video it has some one pulling out the hose laying it nice & flat then running back to the engine while three others stand around. Ive seen some damn good exceptions to these rules however these are very few & far between.
Come to Wis. & tell our VFD Chief that. :) CITY KIDS! *shakes head* (just being funny) I always had my heart set on our VD since I could walk. Now due to a back injury (because of my sister's kids who were never taught how to behave!) I never had the chance to finish FF I class You sound like a Pro. not a volunteer.....? Theyre slower at getting started because obviously they have to wait for at least 6 guys to get there to even take the trucks out. Not that they WANT to stand around.
I figured that. But Townships usually don't have the tax base required for a 24/7 manned FD. Thats why little -usually all unincorporated- towns join together to form as its name implies Townships to share services each of them alone cant afford. We're made up of 4 little towns mainly farmland yet thats part of my crack about city kids above :) I'm not sure about by you but RARELY is anything a total loss by us (among other things at its widest is only 9 miles with 2 stations 5 miles apart)
I have petitioned the Mayor to stop blowing the siren for fires. The FF have both pagers and IPhone notification. Waking the whole town up with the siren is not necessary. The do short blast for noon and that is bad enough for graveyard shifters.
Im sure you would feel differently if your home was the one on fire or your family were the ones in a car accident. the pagers and phones don't always work.
Trystan Weir It is just a throwback to the days when there were no pagers. I work for a FD two Counties away. We still have some volunteers and in the last 29 years they have managed to get the calls without a siren.
ethan morrow I have been through a couple of ISO Inspections at work and it was not a issue that we did not have one for our Volunteers. The City I live in has a ISO of 8 which I think is pretty bad even for a VFD.
ethan morrow Still more of a bad than good. Wakes people up and the VFD always complains people follow them to calls. Fire calls look like a parade here.Stop giving them advanced warning and it will stop some, others have scanners but most probably do not. Anyway they are still going to set it off unless per Mayor I actually start a petition drive showing that the Andy Griffith days are over.
ever since the new narrow banding went into effect by the fcc, the county has had to install several more towers and upgrade the commo/paging/dispatch system due to we still have areas in our county and many towns where pagers still do not work and the radio which are motorola's sometimes work, we still are needing the outdoor warning siren just because of this. none of our firefighters and town folk bitch about notifications.
Judging by the VFD videos a small fire typically ends with the house being a total loss. Here is how you can tell if a video is a VFD or not It starts on scene with a FF laying out the hose dropping it & walking away. A Paid FF waits for the line to be charged & goes to work on fighting the fire. If it's just a roll out a VFD the VFFs take their time a Paid dept. EVERYONE is in a hurry. VFF stand around looking at the burning building Paid FFs are too busy fighting the fire to do that.
![[Station Siren] East branch volunteer fire district going on a response in Upstate New York.](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/bRPaO2KPEOs/mqdefault.jpg)
Reminds me of the " Good ole days" of volunteers, back when we still rode " TAILBOARD"!!
We had button on the back that buzzed in the cab with a red light. If someone fell of haha
people will always complain bout the siren but when the pager fails and the phones are down(in a thunderstorm) its the siren that gets folks to the hall and too that 2 alarm fire and or heart attack/V.S.A...
I had some friends whose house was directly under a Thunderbolt siren....they despised that thing...until one afternoon their house caught fire....then that attack sound was the sweetest music they'd heard.
I remember when I first joined the local Volunteer Fire Dept near my home, they did not have any Pagers at all. All they had was the house Siren, and a Telephone Call System, and when people heard the Siren go off, they picked up the phone, and started calling up the Fire Dept Members and telling them to report to the Station to answer the Fire Call. They had to use the Siren on every single Call, no matter what time of the day, or night it was. That was way back in September of 1985 when I started running Calls. Lots of great progress has been made with how the Members are notified for Calls these days compared to way back then.
The siren also warns everyone to get off the roads and make way for the firemen
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Here in Alabama when you hear a siren like that everyone would hit there tornado safe rooms. we have the Minitor 5's and also 2-way radios with PL tones and everyone carries them. it's cool how some other areas still use the Sirens to notify the firefighters to respond. awesome video
This reminds me of being a kid in a small town in Northeast Georgia. We would hear the siren once or twice a month from the volunteer fire department. Thanks for sharing.
I remember it well I live in Southern Indiana now but I was a member of McVeytown fire and ambulance 30 years ago
Thank you for arriving to what USE to be my home. I don't mind that I lost everything after all you tried to get here under 10 min. & it took you another 20 to lay all them hoses out all nice & pretty.
my favorite siren on here, ill be sure to plug this into my guitar amp and wake up the neighborhood when im playing some good drum and bass!!!
It doesn't use a speaker
I remember it well I live in Southern Indiana now but I belong to McVeytown fire and ambulance 30 years ago
The fire stations in towns around where I grew up in Huntingdon County PA, also used to run their sirens at noon every Saturday.
I remember when every fire house used the house siren. I didnt think anyone used it anymore. We stopped using ours in 1995. I could hear 4 different ones from my home.
Years ago, I lived in Cleveland, MS which had an all volunteer fire department...and an insurance class 5 rating. Needless to say, they were on the move. They had pagers as well as overheads...two were Thunderbolts...the others some ancient relics...One day there was a stove fire just down the street...within 45 seconds of the sirens activation, the first volunteer passed the house...within a minute and a half, the firs truck was on scene...less than three minutes later, the second truck arrived
What is an insurance class 5 rating?
Oh yea loving that siren blow baby blow I wish we had one when I was a voly
at our firehouse, they've been using the same one for as long as I can remember, and I live right down the road. They have various other ones in the city but I only hear ours. Our siren sounds almost exactly like this one.
Love those house sirens
@Thewoog34
I've seen a Federal Model 5, but not on a pole like this one. The Federal Model 5 I saw was on a pole between two poles right behind a store up Lycoming Creek near Old Lycoming Township. I used to hear a 6:00 siren test, and I don't mean six minute siren test. The siren test started at 6:00 every Monday evening, and the sirens heard were sounded for one minute exactly. Sirens heard were a classic STH-10 and a 3T22, the STH-10 did Attack while the 3T22 did Alternate Wail.
I'll have to remeber that. Thanks!!
Sadly this siren was replaced within 2012-2018. A sentry 3V8-H stands in it's spot now.
Damn great footage of that model 5 doing attack.
The air horn was the classic way to alert volunteers of an incoming call back probably during the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s into the 1970s. Then came fire sirens, the sirens you still hear today from up to a mile and a half away from the fire station where the siren is located. My hometown has an STH-10 fire siren, Erick fire siren, and a diaphone. Anybody got any idea on what the diaphone at fire station 10 is? I'm used to the horn, but the type is unknown. Help me find out the type.
Any footage of the response?
I love this guys camera how it doesnt record any sound when zooming in or out...
I went to germany and i did not know about this, that fire stations had those sirens, and then the siren went off when i was sleeping, and i thought there was a tornado and ran to the basement. LOL
Oh great memories!
I miss that sound...all of our sirens are gone...they let the whole town know that something was going on and to watch out for firetrucks!
Our dept had a siren like that and at the time we had no pagers or radios like today,when a call would come in they had all the firefighters home phone numbers and someone would call us and let us know what address to go to.
awesome video
ahhh yes McVerytown been though there many times on my way to Huntingdon lol
I grew up in a small town and if the siren went off every one in the community kicedk on the scanner as most families both parents were in the VFD and the kids got to know whose house to go to if it was a fire or medical to wait for the aults to get home..
0:56 that American flag looks scary facing the other way while the siren is in activation.
@kurtdog119 Yeah, the siren is a single phase Model 5.
What year is that mack, and what is it's function?
Is this the same Mcveytown fire company that was featured in the book nothing left to burn?
Things are getting too modern for me though :)
I recall when we were kids (I'm 41) when every guy on the Dept. had 2 phones -1 his own, 1 connected to the station's #. The first guy to answer would run hit the alarm (as above) and everyone else available would run to the station. I remember when they had to go pump water out of the lake on rare instances when the trucks were empty! Back then they had 20 guys on each Dept. and I think you could count the # of guys who weren't farmers on 1 hand!
Wish you coulda gotten the trucks turning out, overall great video. Curious though, what's taht truck in the middle bay, a tanker?
Ahhh the good ol volinteer siren it's not like I here this 24/7
OK it’s OK
@Haunted100808 just because they have radios doesnt mean they have them on or are in haering distance. i put mine on when im in the car or at night to wake me up but during the day when im home its turned off or charging.
That siren is great for locating coyotes.
My dad is in the fire department his company is zone1 and are truck number is 166 and we have the same siren i wood here it at 12:00 o'clock and when my dad gets a call
The siren sounds like a Federal Model 5.
What was the call?
That American flag looks like it's actually touching the siren lol
What was in the third truck bay and did that go to the fire as well
That is where the ambulances are kept
And my dad is a ex_cap and my dad has been in the fire department for 26 or 25 years and my friend dad is part of the same fire department and they have been officers in the fire department at the same time and my friends dad is a captain now
@Matheny1950 On re-reading, I see he actually meant "horn, not siren."
Why didn't you record the fire trucks? ️😯😯
Model 5 or model 7
@fireman1 where i'm at the time when your tested and what is stated in code is 2 min for volly station most paid will be out in less than a min. i know that it can take upwards to ten min and i'm not sayin anything bout a bad response time they actually did really good
That a Fedelcode?
yes it does get you pumped but when i run over to the ems building to the left it kills your eardrums. :)
Are you a city kid? :) In volunteer places the first to answer the phone call (most have 2 lines for everyone on the Department:1 personal & 1 for the station) has to get there & turn the siren on to signal the rest. They all have to drop what they're doing (many have to turn everything in the barn off or run in from the field), drive to the station, get into gear, THEN get the trucks going. Not like in the city where they're fully staffed 24/7 and all the guys are already at the station.
correct the model 5 was replaced by a Sentry not too not too long ago. not too sure of the sentry model though
+PGMEagle It's a Model 2.
+Andrew Carlstedt it's a federal model 7 siren the model 2 is smaller than that
@rebelgirl215001 plus when the siren goes there isn't anyone just sitting in the truck waiting for the call.
That's a federal model 5. I have a few of those around where I live
How is it not a Model 7?
@@WillyBillyBoy24 I don't even remember writing this comment, but I think that is a model 5 because of the wind-up, although I may not be correct.
@@SouthGeorgiaSirens Hilarious, I didn't think you'd reply. I see videos all the time of what I think is a Model 7' and people say 5. I always look for the larger bottom cone for Model 7's aside from the sound. I still get confused by T variants.
@@WillyBillyBoy24 From what Ive read off the ARS forum the 5/7s have no visible difference, the only difference is the 7 has a more powerful motor.
@@WillyBillyBoy24 I know for a fact the ones with the larger, more angled, lower louver are Federal Electric era (Fedelcode) type 5/7s. Also what about the T variants confuse you?
Guy in blue truck; "what the @#!%?!"
make another :]
So clearly something needs to be done. I'd suggest if a town can install hydrants having a hose attachment like what is found in some buildings set off to the side. this would allow those who are on scene to begin an outside attack till you folks get there with more equipment There is this one video where a VFD responds to an apt. fire a hydrants across from the burning building. Had maintenance been able to start an attack they could have contained it to one unit. instead it took out FOUR.
I have seen paid unionized fire department run in circles for an hour and a half because all the hydrants were dry! It was an abandoned grain depot at a harbour. They didn’t know what to do! Yet 15 feet down was Lake Superior! It never occurred to them to use their 4 inch ridged suction into the lake and draft! It took 90 whole mins! By then their ladder truck had sustained heavy heat damage!
Engine was about 1 minute after the clip ended, the tanker was about 3 minutes
@rebelgirl215001
you should try waiting for the ambulance.
most horns are decent but some get really annoying after the second blow.
That's the biggest problem. By the time everyone gets to the station & pulls out the building is a total loss. Second In almost EVERY VFD video it has some one pulling out the hose laying it nice & flat then running back to the engine while three others stand around. Ive seen some damn good exceptions to these rules however these are very few & far between.
sometimes its really enoing 2 me cause we live acros the road from the station so it gets on my nerves.
The reason why they have the siren, is because for some reason their pagers fail, and the app fails they know there is an emergency, that's why.
This vid was made 3 bay before Michael Jackson died
Single phase.
@rebelgirl215001 Maybe they`re waiting for volunteers to arrive?
What happened
Come to Wis. & tell our VFD Chief that. :)
CITY KIDS! *shakes head* (just being funny) I always had my heart set on our VD since I could walk. Now due to a back injury (because of my sister's kids who were never taught how to behave!) I never had the chance to finish FF I class
You sound like a Pro. not a volunteer.....? Theyre slower at getting started because obviously they have to wait for at least 6 guys to get there to even take the trucks out. Not that they WANT to stand around.
I figured that. But Townships usually don't have the tax base required for a 24/7 manned FD. Thats why little -usually all unincorporated- towns join together to form as its name implies Townships to share services each of them alone cant afford. We're made up of 4 little towns mainly farmland yet thats part of my crack about city kids above :)
I'm not sure about by you but RARELY is anything a total loss by us (among other things at its widest is only 9 miles with 2 stations 5 miles apart)
Federal Model 7B
@ilikstikz7804 yeah because people who upload goddamn videos of firehouse sirens TOTALLY have a life!
riiiight... care to prove that?
Nice fire siren!
Why not show how long it took them to depart?
Show volunteers arriving, not just same boring scene.
@rebelgirl215001 well... look its during the day and everybody is at work.
Volunteer Alert (Imagine Cup Malaysia 2013)
0:04 0:07 0:14 0:21 call run .
@rebelgirl215001 u have 2 min to pull out. they accomplished it
like 2 minutes. why?
0:04 0:07 0:14 CALL RUN ..
@jmf202008 The man means "H.O.R.", which was a manufacturer of large sirens some years ago. Anyone voting negative on this has a dirty mind!
Btw
not gonna lie bro i liked the vid but in azores is allot worse
@rebelgirl215001 thats what she said
yea i know haha
holy christ would that get annoying to the neighbor next door. lol
EMSguy two of our guys live next door, one across the street-mixed reviews :)
EMSguy , imagine if it was diaphone horns instead .
@rebelgirl215001 LOL honestly the house would of been burnt by then :P
Good lo' model 5t
It's a 5B
I looked up the place in Pennsylvania, and the siren was replaced with a Sentry Siren between 2013-2018.
Location: 40°29'49.7"N 77°44'26.1"W
I have petitioned the Mayor to stop blowing the siren for fires. The FF have both pagers and IPhone notification. Waking the whole town up with the siren is not necessary. The do short blast for noon and that is bad enough for graveyard shifters.
Im sure you would feel differently if your home was the one on fire or your family were the ones in a car accident. the pagers and phones don't always work.
Trystan Weir It is just a throwback to the days when there were no pagers. I work for a FD two Counties away. We still have some volunteers and in the last 29 years they have managed to get the calls without a siren.
ethan morrow I have been through a couple of ISO Inspections at work and it was not a issue that we did not have one for our Volunteers. The City I live in has a ISO of 8 which I think is pretty bad even for a VFD.
ethan morrow Still more of a bad than good. Wakes people up and the VFD always complains people follow them to calls. Fire calls look like a parade here.Stop giving them advanced warning and it will stop some, others have scanners but most probably do not.
Anyway they are still going to set it off unless per Mayor I actually start a petition drive showing that the Andy Griffith days are over.
ever since the new narrow banding went into effect by the fcc, the county has had to install several more towers and upgrade the commo/paging/dispatch system due to we still have areas in our county and many towns where pagers still do not work and the radio which are motorola's sometimes work, we still are needing the outdoor warning siren just because of this. none of our firefighters and town folk bitch about notifications.
distortion city!
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Judging by the VFD videos a small fire typically ends with the house being a total loss. Here is how you can tell if a video is a VFD or not It starts on scene with a FF laying out the hose dropping it & walking away. A Paid FF waits for the line to be charged & goes to work on fighting the fire. If it's just a roll out a VFD the VFFs take their time a Paid dept. EVERYONE is in a hurry. VFF stand around looking at the burning building Paid FFs are too busy fighting the fire to do that.
Kevin Casey Kevin most volunteer firefighters are also paid as well rethink how you think of us vollies..you know show some knowledge
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@alter656667
Minitor 5
why the hell would u upload this, i can hear it from mattawana and it is super annoying.