Thunderbolt Siren Graveyard Rescue
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This rescue happened on June 9, 2018 and August 4, 2018. This is a video of a Thunderbolt 1000 siren graveyard rescue. I was the one who tried to get all of these Thunderbolts. But with a huge success! This is my best siren enthusiast moment ever! I apologize if this video is too long. All Thunderbolts (except *2, not 3) were sold to McCraine Warning Systems. The RCMs/AR Timers/radios were not with the siren graveyard. All Thunderbolts were originally serviced to either Catawba Nuclear Power Plant or Oconee Nuclear Power Plant.
I discovered this Thunderbolt siren graveyard in 2014. The previous Great Falls FD fire chief said that the county is not selling any of these sirens. The Thunderbolt siren graveyard is for a future siren system project. In early 2016, I went back to see if they are still going to do with any of Thunderbolts, but the new Great Falls fire chief (he's also with the Great Falls Police Department as a police chief) said "contact the Chester County EMA, you can give me your business card and I will give the card to the EMA". Later on I tried to contact the EMA but it didn't work. But in fall 2017, Hurricane Irma went through Chester County as a tropical storm and produced some tornadoes. In October 2017, the Chester County EMA decided to buy and install 3 ASC T-135s (actually, the T-135s are still not hooked up as of summer 2018 yet). In late November 2017, that's when I tried to contact the Chester County EMA about the Thunderbolt siren graveyard again to see if they will sell them after the T-135s being installed. In late winter 2018, the Chester County EMA director #1 agreed with selling the Thunderbolts, but EMA director #2 (Chester County EMA has 2 EMA directors) has not agreed yet. Late winter 2018/spring 2018, the EMA has official agreed with selling the Thunderbolt siren graveyard to me. But they will need one Thunderbolt from the graveyard to be restored and returned to the county for future installation.
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this is very upsetting to see these being left to rot thank you for rescuing them how can we ever repay you
We could give him money
No by subscribing maybe?
Reminds me of Minneapolis’s old system, just rusty white Thunderbolts... glad they’re all being rescued!
Siren Hunter MN they unfortunately have the c-series blower
One of them is still there, which is awesome.
@@TheSleepyMechanic0524 whats wrong with c series? I forgot.
@@TSAR2010 everything. The build quality was terrible.
@@TheSleepyMechanic0524SONGS....
My goodness. Congratulations on the haul! I'd be lucky to get my hands on one Bolt.
Same
You did a good thing and you gave all these wonderful thudnerbolts a great opportunity to serve as a siren once again and not a rusty metal junks in Siren Graveyard!
I USED TO HAVE THIS PROFILE PICTURE lol
@@Anzac1 Oh really?
Awesome! Glad you could rescue these!
No one better than a thunderbolt siren!!
Hoo-Ray to you guys rescuing these. The way they are "stored" here is a tragedy. The projector horns are aiming up where rain and debris is pouring in. The motors are probably ruined on them ones not to mention the mice and critters living in there. Mouse piss is very corrosive to say the least. What a shame. There are thousands of enthusiasts who would cherish having these for their history also.
OH MY GOD. THAT IS A TON OF BOLTS!
Get a thunderbolt
Yes that’s true
Yes he is crazy😅
Whole family
how can the thunderbolts and the enthusiasts ever repay you?
I'm almost positive this is the pile that my Thunderbolt came from. My blower and siren head looked identical to those when I got mine.
I think these were only 1000s, but I could be wrong, Unless you have a 1000 that we don't know about! lol These came out of York county, Sc, where I used to live. Possibly
Sirens Of SW Ohio mine was originally a 1000 but I swapped the chopper for a 5/6.
@@Soccerdude7330Official Ah, ok then. In that case, May very well be.
Poor Thunderbolts they're so old and Rusty it's a good thing he's saving one
All of them
So glad that they're being rescued.
He has all of them he saved a whole family
Wow, now you have parts for your 1000A if needed!
These used to be all over York Co. I remember them being put up all around town, here in Rock Hil, just before Catawba project was finished (1983 or so). Before then, the only siren I knew of, was the old FS SD-10 on Mt Gallant Rd, which was part of the old CD system. The tornado warnings, they used "attack" mode, and tests were done in "alert". In the early 90's, the thunderbolt just a few blocks from my home, was replaced by a old style FS 2001 (just last year, received a new concrete pole). Soon the other t-bolts were gradually replaced by 2001's. All the Tbolts were sold to Chester Co. I do miss the old system. The current system of 2001's doesn't seem as loud, and it's high pitched. Glad to see these old sirens going to use.
Do you remember exactly where the SD-10 Used to reside?
@@Memerino-ly7yr it was behind the old Celanese union hall building, which is now the Grace Family Life Center located at Lewis street, and Mt Gallant Rd intersection.
@@takemyjobpleeez do you know when it was removed
@@Memerino-ly7yr About 10 years ago
@@takemyjobpleeez This was a CD system siren, right? What other sirens resided around the area?
Wait you got ALL THE THUNDERBOLTS?!
@Ray's World: Yes!
@@TrainsAndSirens1 O_O JESUS! You could replace an entire city's system with all of those and have some to spare!
@@rpgiv3175 i dunno why we didnt think of this earlier
@@tangy.mp4300 yep. If he gets them all into good working condition, and in really good cosmetic condition, then they can possibly be installed and replace an entire system of a small community
Man i have thunderbolt fever! Anyways great tbolts looks like you had great fun!
I kept expecting to see red wasps come flying out of them. Wasps LOVE to build in stuff like that, believe me I know!
I mean they had screens in the front
Any of the rescues for sale? Grew up a block away from one of Jackson, MS's Thunderbolts. Hated it as a kid... but kinda miss those things now. Wife'd kill me, but would restore and pass it along to the Cold War Museum if they were interested.
6:19 *bonk*
TIMBERRRRR
I want a thunderbolt
Same
I do too,
Same
wss is your answer
I'm so glad sirens have graveyards to rescue them from being scrapped, so Siren enthusiasts and engineers and others can buy them or even just simply save them. Some of them get sent in to be restored and reused again! I hope that's what they do for the Sick Thunderbolt near me that was unfortunately recently replaced.
Glad to see someone rescues one of those awesome sirens I love the thunderbolt siren
i would love to be able to get/buy a thunderbolt head.. but i live in the uk
I live in NY or New York and there is only like 2 or three of them in the entire state sadly but my dad could probably wake me up with one of theses in my backyard lol if he has one but I don’t sadly
I just drove to upstate new York a couple weeks ago and hauled a couple back to Maine. Totally worth the 15 hours of driving there and back
Those sirens need to be given to towns and places that need them and siren enthusiasts!
Are you going to restore them
but what will you do with them?
Is this how you got your Tbolt 1000?
I wanna go to a siren graveyard and swipe up a thunderbolt badly
Me too
I wonder uf these sirens are 1000's,1000AT's,1000T's.Because I already know I don't think that South Carolina even have the BTSB's sirens.
So only one of those tbolts will be installed?
OWS Crazy1 All of them will be installed.
Jeb will eventually get around to restoring all of his, one will go to Chester County, and one might end up going to Suwannee GA
excellent work
hello we are still using our thunder bolt 1000 at the fire house. we are looking to buy a 2 one for a back up any ideas
Maybe go to west shore services or get one at a siren graveyard
One day I’ll start a siren company specifically for rare sirens
Tbolts are so awesome!
Great find! How much do one of these old Thunderbolts go for unrestored?
6:19 Dammit you tipped it over.
Timberrr
I wonder what county Jeb will end up installing these in? Well besides the one already promised to Chester.
Good job rescuing them
Now just to wait about 7 years and try my luck with a Si-Rex
Can I have one
Awesome! I wonder how when they were removed from the plant they ended up here?
If I saw those trailers coming down the highway I would have had a heart attack?
Taking all those bolts to Florida? I hope so!
Were getting SO MANY tornado watches over here in Florida!
I hope they put up some in Tampa because they only have Modulator II 5020Bs for spill incidents (tested everyday at noon) and not used for tornados…
Right after you bought the STH....Jesus...
ummmmm good luck with that.
Well before, actually
Wait the silverstreet tbolt is getting replaced?
@@xXSo1arGamingXx no
@@SouthCarolinaSirens thats good
bsp wants to know your location
I guess for a while your yard turned into a mini jeb's yard
Man Thats So Much Siren T-Bolts 1000t
How many Thunderbolts does a guy need?????????
Thems a lot of bolts
what's gonna happen to them
I'm going to get a thunderbolt Chopper this summer.
Did you get it?
@@kansasstatealerting2874 no because 2020 is a bitch
@@SuburbanStorms 2021 might be better
Will that one Thunderbolt atop the station be replaced with a 2001-130 or 508-128
idk i hope not
Can I have one thunderbolt?
Take notes hawaii ema
What are you going to do with all those?
All (except 2) have been sold to Jeb.
TrainsAndSirens1 ok
Hey are there any left 2020? I really want one so BAD!?
@@hollystrike5012 No.
I would like to buy one
I wanna Get a 1000t chopperhead and horn
So you want to get the chopper cap and horn? It wouldn't make any sound if its just the chopper housing and horn
jeepers man!
save some for us!
How many thunderbolts did you get?
Hey! He took all the Tbolts!
I want to rescuse a thunderbolt 1000t tornado siren where is this place at there some more thunderbolt tornado siren
This is how you got the Thunderbolt 1000
I don't want the siren to die
Awesome!
rip those thunderbolt100t’s
6:19 TIMBERRRR
That's crazy
Imagine if the thunderbolts have like...souls. They would be possessing the people who broke them. 😈 I mean can you blame them, though? Like if somebody killed you, you'd attack them as a ghost, right?
I don't know I'm weird, lol
BOBCAT TO THE RESCUE!!!!
Doubt any of these have been fixed
Where is this I want a t bolt
I am gonna get a bolt in the future.
how many of them did you end up and how much did you pay:?
Were do you find these things?
40:00
b o n k
I wish i had one
Good good
wholesome
What r u doing with all them sirens
He restored them
Is there any 1003s?
Nope all of them were 1000’s
Also sorry for responding late
I forgot I wrote this comment lol, it makes sense theres no 1003s since they are hard to get as well
WHY ARE THERE SO MANY B'S?!
I hope someone fix’s these Thunderbolt
He is.
Ok
SAVE ONE FOR MEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Where can I get one?
Look on ebay
All those dead thunderbolts
...that are being brought back to life!
Why do these videos have so many views and no likes or dislikes? It is strange
@Bendy and the Machine: I disabled the ratings.
Oh that's a shame because I love this video
@@deleteddeleted172
You can still add it on your liked videos
Chuck E. Cheese person I’m in to sirens and animatronics
How much was all this in total?
I assume it’s free usually the people that have the sirens don’t really care about them same with cities I saw someone get a Thunderbolt for 75 dollars when it was being removed
Do you have any Thunderbolt parts for sale? 🇺🇸
The only part I would get rid of, is a Thunderbolt projector/horn.
How much do you want for a projector horn?
Could I buy Anyone of these perhaps? Or where could I get a good deal on one?
You can't have any of these sadly because they are all being refurbished and reinstalled
WSS or ebay
You can buy sirens forms WSS (west shore services), your city if they are removing one, e bay, or a siren graveyard
Where is this located?
Great falls fire department
1000
Who else cringed at 6:19
Me
I laughed
I cringed. Zoinks! That was a close one
I did but not as much as at 39:59
why does it need to resue is something happend in the woods?
Siren's been sitting for long, long time.
@@TrainsAndSirens1 WOOOOOOOOW
Wow
R.I.P
Co ty tady?:D
i,m thunderbolt starts playing
thunderbolt is such a lame siren
Fuck you
No it's not, Thunderbolt good ati bad
disagreed
-equinox and mike the blue equinox
Where? I want one