VE-Day Special - WW2 Air Raid Sirens Saving Lives 2020
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- 75 years after the end of WW2 in Europe, air raid sirens continue to help save lives in Britain. They are the last part of the civil defence network that used to protect civilians from the Luftwaffe - find out how these old machines are used today.
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I'm releasing this a little early in the UK as its already VE-Day in Australia, New Zealand, India and many parts east. Enjoy.
Can you cover the German sirence for fires to?
Mark Felton Productions love all your work especially the war stories . Please keep this great work up ✌🏻🇬🇧
Thanks Mr. Felton.
And it's still May 7th in the US.
But it was a very interesting video nevertheless.
My local fire station here in New Zealand uses one of these to call the volunteers to the station for a call out. It is tested every Saturday at 12pm on the dot.
I see no reason to remove emergency sirens, and it’s sad to see even these lesser details of history fade away
I agree - damned bean counting pencil pushers!
Disabling sirens for Twitter. Right. As someone who's been a first responder for over 20 years, I have to say that's outright negligence. I am not vapid or self absorbed enough to have ever been on Twitter.
@@PalmettoNDN Yea, social sites are troubling, but doing or making rules by people there is insane.
How much does it cost to maintain these sirens?
@@PalmettoNDN Exactly! Twitter users are an outright biased sample of the population.
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When I was a kid back in 2000 visiting my Grandmother. There was a 60th anniversary of the blitz documentary being advertised on the TV while we were having dinner. There was one part where the sirens were going off and she immediately shuddered and put her hands on her face. I didnt really understand it at the time but now. God only knows what she remembered when she heard that siren again.
Wow.i bet shes been through a lot.
i hope that your grandmother didn’t have to remember those roughy times and i wish her well
Poor her. Look after her well mate
Yes also a little noise at noon - and again at 5. Of course to alert volunteer fire-fighters to suit-up for action. In the Mt. Rainer area also flooding and 🤔 what else ? Oh yeah …. VOLCANO EVACUATION ! Wars end but emergency needs do not.
Why would they include that??
Knowing what people went through when those sirens were sounded back then sends chills down my spine.
As “made in Britain” what was made usually lasted as these sirens still work proves, not quite the same quality these days and that’s with everything
They'd be made in China these days Kev!
Mike H certainly agree with that and the quality of the stuff from China is terrible but we still buy it by the ship load, I just don’t get it, the electrics catch fire, the cars are rip offs from other countries, their bridges and buildings fall down and we are going ahead with 5G with them 🤔 as they say “ money talks” quality has gone out of the window, Back handers to hide crap equipment will always be done via a back door.
No eu,un No problems
@@kevint3845 It's price that's all, some British built stuff was terrible quality (BL I'm looking at you!) but the good gear was expensive, the Gardner engine in my boat has lasted years and will last years more but they were expensive and almost no one cares if something lasts 100 years if they plan on replacing it after 2 or 3 so why pay the extra cost?
their children, (Boomers) destroyed quality which eventually killed the British car industry as well
I haven't anyone say it, so I will: Happy VE DAY everyone!
As a child we used to have a large public party at the village primary school on VE day, food, games, bunting and pennants everywhere. I never made the link then that many people were directly affected as children by the way and running the party. Well this year I'm celebrating, on my front lawn, responsibly socially distancing, but celebrating not the less.
Again, happy VE Day all - Lest we forget.
Happy VE day from America. We will always have your back.
@书中自有黄金屋 strong words from someone with a call of duty degree in TH-cam edgelording
If the troops who fought for the Allies in WW2, knew the future they were fighting for, they would have joined with the Germans.
Cheers from across the pond 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Cheers from America
All of the people who died in WW2 we remember them while marking the VE 75
In holland we remebered the brave soldiers 4 days ago the as pakt and the allies
My great uncle was killed in action, he was from Ireland.
Air siren: is scary
The subtitles: [music]
I find them scary 😓
xD
I personally like the sounds of war sirens, no its not be cause I'm artillery I genuinely like the sound
@@cameronwhite4442 it's gas masks as well they scare me
Its not scary
When the all cleared call sounded i just broke down in tears, ive not cried in a while or for a sound in that matter but that really hit me.. wow.
I can only imagine.
My parents told me about the signals. Listening intently on the all clear signal to leave the shelter.
My eyes always tear up when I hear an air raid siren. It's like I know death is near and it's the end.
My school is located in one of the highest areas of Leicester, and during the 70's the air raid siren on top of one of the buildings was regularly tested - the sound was unnerving.
John Dean - I lived in Bristol in the 1960s-70s, and especially during the 'Cuban Missile Crisis' period the local sirens would get a testing once a month on a Sunday afternoon for a minute or so. I found it quite reassuring that if things kicked off, and Bristol, being in the middle of a target rich hot spot, that very few would survive to face the more aweful nuclear nightmare afterwards.
@john dean ...I'm from that area as well! I think it's for the quarry near by when they set the detonations to warn the workers
Is that in Germany 🇩🇪 or Britain 🇬🇧
I live in a small village in Germany and every Tuesday at 6pm they test the, now used for the fire department, sirens. It’s super unnerving even though we’re used to it
funny i grew up in a small town in the 70's and every Sunday at noon the towns fire department would test the air raid siren then in the early 80's they got rid of it then one weekend i hear this goddamned thing going off loud as all hell seems my friend who lived next door whose father was was a volunteer fireman took it home and they where in the garage with the damn thing hooked to car batteries i remember this very vividly because my friend had a really hot sister.
Imagine the fear creeping up inside of you as heard this noise, slowly building as you hear the distant drone of engines and eventually the chaos as the bombs pounded the world above you. Must have been absolutely terrifying
I believe it did. And it wasn't just London that got bombed. Hull, Birmingham, Liverpool, Coventry, Sheffield, Southampton and many many others were too, though London did get the brunt of it.
Escaped lunatics? Don't you mean free-range mental services clients?
How about when parliament is in session?
Got to keep the loonies on the path...
Absconded service users
We call the special place where we keep all the dangerous free range mentally ill lunatics San Francisco. Sadly there does not appear to be an alert system to warn us when one escapes.
Personally I'd opt for 'criminally inclined, psychologically infirm' if one wants a truly pretentious and verbose 'PC' term for _nutters_ !
Mark's unadorned "lunatics" does the job quicker though. ;)
“Escaped lunatics” 😂
(Edit): It’s just after 7:48 if anyone missed Mark’s classic delivery.
Really un PC these days, but gets the point across. Used to be in medical usage, but has fallen out of favor due to negative connotations of being applied to all the mentally ill, not just the dangerous or violent ones.
does anyone else get chills when hearing the sound?
nah
I reckon that's partially the point, artificial and noticeable.
Yes I do
It would be scary if a siren popped out of nowhere near my place and it happened for actual reasons (meaning not testing)
But I am completely against sms system. I mean like, I may totally ignore the message, and at night we may not even hear the message! If anything happens at night, that sound is enough to scare the life out of us and make us turn on the tv for whatever is happening. If we are at the seashore, it's so easy to warn people with that scary sound.
Yes
I used to think sirens like these were only for tornadoes until I found out about the World Wars and nuclear bombs and also I didn’t realize that was the sound of the sirens until the wrong button indecent happened in Hawaii
I was young at the time so ya
No.. the worst and scariest sound in all of war history is..........silence.
Hell is hell, war is war. there are no innocents sent to hell, but war doesn't care who you are
True it's never too quiet
Gunshots?
If there's silence on the battlefield, your already dead
uhhh in ww1 it wasn’t scary in the war because their was a time when all of the shooting and gun shots all of a sudden stopped and they were acctuley glad not scared at all
I remember this noise, growing up in Portsmouth in the 60's and 70's and later when I served in the RAF in the 80's then later as a police officer. I still find it very emotive. Very effective, they should be retained.
Wait ur that old also of u acctually can u tell me stories from ww2
@@BigBrolicBlackDudeNamedRequis ......... is old bad ? That says something about you then doesn't it ? Sirens were used up to and through the 1980 / 90's .......
Totally agree
I'm in Portsmouth too. And given the potential Russian threat, and the strategic importance of the location, maybe there's a chance they'll go off again. Unlikely though.
How to survive anything. Even a Karen.
Step one: be a camera man
Step two: immortality achieved
Yeah, cameramen survived hiroshima and nagasaki. (it's a joke)
No be the camera
The "found footage" genre would like a word with you.
We still have them here in Dorset. I'd hate to see them replaced by text messages, especially if your mobile reception is flaky. You can't ignore a siren! Sad that the authorities in some areas ignore local wishes and ride roughshod over them - that's petty beurocrats for you!
Unless they have the unintended function of triggering and sending all the old people down into the basement during a flood warning. That might be bad.
@@TankRank5344 Good point, I hadn't thought of that! :o)
Imagine waking in the morning to see text messages about an escaped lunatic released at 3am. Who thinks that text messages are reliable for such emergencies? Smh.
@@TankRank5344 Then, apart from the flood warning siren, just have some guy shout in a speakers "This is a flood warning, get to high ground as fast as possible"
A lot of people dont have phones either.
The sound of fear, the sound of terror, the sound of war...
Alarm clock...
I used to brick myself as a kid on the farm when heard these things going off (probably testing )I thought it was the three minute warning before Armageddon.probably been watching threads and day after tomorrow on vhs. Fun times
Tornado. That is what I think when I hear that sound.
My mother couldn't even watch the end credits of Dad's Army with the sound up because the sound of the siren made her feel sick with fear.
Yes... Go on
A haunting sound today, even if you never lived through the war.
I live in S.E. Michigan U.S.A. Every first Saturday of the month at, 1:00 PM, the local siren are tested, as an early warning in case of dangerous weather conditions. They still work effectively, as far as I am concerned.
Outside of Chicago they are tested the first Tuesday of the month. Super interesting.
They've been doing that since I was little.
Yep, St. Clair Shores here, grew up in Lake Orion, remember the old yellow ones?
Same here in N.C. right outside of my school, sounds like the Blitz at 2pm in history class!
@Thomas Quick Nice, I was on Baldwin and I-75 basically the border (before and during Great Lakes Crossing), but spent plenty of time "downtown" if you could call it that. Seros and Sagebrush were frequent spots
having a childhood in bagshot, one of the villages in the broadmoor 5 mile radius, it was but wasn't chills hearing the sirens every Monday morning at 10. of course i didn't know what it meant until 1992, when an escape happened! i was stuck indoors for a bit. i moved away in 2003, but i still remembered the system. when i heard the sirens were turn off, my heart sank. great video!
Continuous single tone is the all clear. I’m a Coventry kid whose grandfather died after sustaining injuries in the November 14th 1940 raid.
God bless your Grandfather and all the brave British people.
Never again
Good bless you and sorry for your loss....
My uncle died on D day...
I remember often hearing these sirens being tested. They were a sinister sound, even to a child. I must find that one near Waterloo station once this lock-down is over. Thanks Mark, you really do some fascinating stuff.
Paul Kirkland you can spot it on Google Street View pretty easily, it’s perched upon the train bridge and easily viewable from the road! :)
I remember in the 80s one being tested near my school. It went off and every body stopped. After 30 seconds we all got very uneasy and after a minute everyone started to panic - and then it stopped. It was at the height of the cold war.
To this day we have one of these here in Opunake, New Zealand. It is tested at 12 midday EVERY day of the year and people stop work for lunch when it goes up. Primarily it is still used for Fire and Ambulance callouts..as these are volunteer services and not everyone walks around with their pager on it remains a useful backup. Dad was ex RNZN and RN WW2 and also ex-Army Korean War. He did not enjoy hearing the siren go up every day as he had been in London and other parts of the UK when air raids were on ...some bad memories of things he wouldn't even talk about. I believe there are quite a few of these still in service around NZ. Best wishes. Dave.
In my country it's not only testing.
Sadly lontroll that would be right. God bless and keep you all. Dave. @@lontroll
@@daveshegedin2576 thank you! Ukraine will stand and win, anyway.
0:01 when you turn on your pc in the middle of the night
YO SO TRUE AND ITS LIKE 1am AND EVERYONE WAKES UP
@@enas5441 back in the early 2000s i had a computer that said its alive from frankenstein
Or a laptop in a library
my macbook lol 🤣🤣🤣
@@AbamSinaga true lol, a few minutes of safari and it sounds like a jet
In the 1980's my best job was switching the station alert switch. This turned on an air raid siren. The building is was mounted on got refurbished. Got the call flicked the switch, silence... Builders had dumped it in the skip! It was back up working the following day.
We have those here in the US, they're used as tornado warnings. Had one in an electric motor shop I worked at for repair and we had no choice but to run it up inside the building to test it after the repair. Unflupping believable how loud they are up close. The maintenance on these can't be much, there's literally one moving part, a couple bearings, and the electric coils which should last a very long time and aren't prohibitively expensive to replace. Shame to let good old machines die to save maybe a couple thousand bucks at most. Especially historic ones like these.
Pounds not bucks just cause your stupid country uses dollars doesnt mean everywhere else does too
I’d put the price of those parts at a couple hundred each so maybe 1000 at most for a siren
Nah, youd be surprised how fast labor adds up on a repair like a stator rewind. Doesn't matter if it's small, there's still a hundred steps involved to get it right and proper. Every one is basically a custom job because youve likely never worked on that exact same model before. It's interesting and very satisfying work. Doesn't pay too well though unless it's a union shop. Replacement motors made overseas are generally cheaper than most major repairs on the existing unit.
@@nondescripthandle212 chill out, just because some people use a different currency than you don't mean you have to be a jerk
@@danielzimmerman4501 it's a british video about ve day talking about british sirens
When stationed in Korea we used them for alerts. When in Kuwait and Iraq we used similar devices to warn of incoming rockets. Even today in the tornado alley area of America we have active sirens that are tested regularly
When the sirens started playing, the auto captions would mark it as
[Laughter]
[Applause]
Pretty entertaining
Jarren Carroll - that is because the bot responsible for the captions has not been programmed with a siren tone and thus incorrectly deciphering it.
😐
Eh, we got them in Denmark too, we do the text messages too though, sensible as we are.
We digitized all the sirens ages ago, I paid a visit to the old municipal cold war bunker in Odense a few years ago, and the old retired cop there told me that they are now remotely operated.
We don't leave that kinda stuff to anything local though, that's government business.
There’s no high tech without low tech ! Can’t understand why a low cost solution such as sirens has been discarded. My mother who survived the bombing of Coventry would literally tremble at the sound of that siren even when heard as a recording .
I used to work at Thames Water's Hampton works where on the roof of Davidson House is the biggest one of these sirens they could get. If you want to hear it be near the site on any Tuesday morning at 09.00 when it is tested. If it goes of at any other time it's to warn that a toxic gas leak has occurred and residents are to go indoors shut all windows, doors and ventilation systems and wait for the authorities to come and let them know it's safe.
In 30 years of me working there it was never needed, there are much less of the toxic chemicals on site nowadays than when I started there but still enough to require the alarm system.
In the town of hebden bridge in yorkshire they still use the air raid sirens because the towns river always floods. When i went in summer last year they were doing a test when i was on the same street as it, my ears didnt stop ringing for about 10 minutes.
That bit of footage is from Todmorden, just down the valley
my dad is from hebden bridge and we go up there every so often to visit cousins and grandparents. I've heard the sirens go off before during a flood warning, which is odd since I live in London.
I don't understand the point of not having as much warning signs as possible. Here in the US we use texts, radio, TV, and sirens.
We need more sirens imo. EAS work but just don’t do it justice
it took way to long to find another American saying something about are sirens in the replies.
I haven't heard an EAS in years. Even back in April, when we had a tornado touch down couple miles from where I am, no EAS. Kinda miss being woken up in the middle of the night scared shitless because they were doing a test.
mpk 666 Weekly tests are required by law however the weekly tests are completed in very early morning hours (such as 3AM-4AM).
Lived in plymouth 5 years,
Moved to portsmouth
Now moving back to plymouth,
Never could get away from hearing the sirens every monday
Back in the 80s I was a postman on my round the day after watching the film Threads (it’s a great film about a nuclear war highly I recommend it) when a local alert siren went off not far from me. I stopped and looked around but there were no cars or people on the road I was on.
Just for a few seconds it really felt like WW3 had begun mainly due to the wail of that siren.
Nige GSX14 I don’t recommend threads. It’s too accurate and traumatizing if you realize just how close it was to actually happening.
"To warn people of escaped Lunatics" That had me giggling.
TNTMASTER807 that had me roaring XD
TNTMASTER807 k
“Watch out bob, that’s the loony alarm!”
i dont know why you found an offensive slur used agensed people in crisist funny. us people with mental heath problems face persicution and mockery like this every day and its not ok and not funny
@@shawnm355 by god, why do you take these things so seriously? Ya know, some people like to have fun, but you just seem to like being a buzzkill.
I grew up in here in Kansas. This is the same sound as our Tornado sirens. One in particular is in the town I live in. Monday through Saturday at Noon, the siren goes off to signal to local farmers and citizens that it is in fact Noon. The other time they go off is for the volunteer firefighters here to go out on call, or severe weather like a tornado.
Ah yes the WW2 raid siren: Warning the people of dangerous people on the loose since 1939
Cole Phelps Get to the shelter of The Tube!
Twitter really, what ever happened to the old saying "if it ain't broke, don't try and fix it'. A phone is not going to put the fear of god into you.
Good luck messaging me when my phone is muted I won't notice honestly as I don't check my phone
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Tornado warning sirens are used here in Midwest to warn people about Tornadoes during heavy thunder storms. I have heard that sound since I was little tike. I am 65 years old now.
We have these tested once in a while in Poland.... Even as a child, hearing these on 1st of September gave me deep anxiety.
Its not the thunder that strikes but the lightning
I have a friend in poland
I would joke about that anxiety I was writing about, that it could be in my genes after my ancestors haha..
I would say Stukas and concentration camps should be a bigger worry
Is it me or does anyone else get goose bumps when hearing this?
Yesterday was testing day; in Denmark the sirens are tested first Wednesday in May at noon
My wife is very upset that the “Mark Felton” music is missing at the beginning, I told her it was at the end.
Please, rectify going forward 😆
David Fowler We got the air raid siren which set the theme for the video! The *Mark Felton Introduction Music* will be back and won’t fade away (my World War II reference)!
You can hear the music quietly in the background when the map of Europe is shown near the start (about 0:20 mark)
I love your channel. I grew up in the 80s in Hillmorton, Rugby, Warwickshire and they would regularly test them… haunting and eerie.
There's a Air siren 70 meters away from my house and it goes off every morning at 7:15 and it sounds very similar, it's a refinery quarters siren, from India, Assam, guwahati, noonmati !!!
dafuq
@@classictv8096 yaa the first time I came here, when I heard that thing going off I pissed man, and I saw everyone was fine minding their own businesses !!! 😂😂
@@techticalgaming2296 those wanting to sleep more would not be minding their bussiness tho
@@pagodebregaeforro2803 yep they all are terrorized by it including me 😂
I used to hear a siren when I was younger quite often too, never understood why it would go off but it's always good to remember the history and importance of such a simple machine
Those same sirens were still there in the 1980's, and they still tested them, I can remember one near our school when I was a kid. They made us watch " protect and survive" which I still think is the most frightening thing I've ever seem.
1:48 made me laugh, that air raid warden running off to the Tardis! 😂
Because if theres bombs a-comin' the Doctors gonna run!
The Netherlands has retained its 3,800 Cold War sirens, and they are tested every first Monday of the month at noon. After the Berlin wall came down, regular testing was discontinued, but in 2003 testing was resumed to create awareness with the general public. A national text warning system, NL-alert, is in use, but until its coverage is sufficient, probably in 2021, the sirens will remain in use.
GAH! Throughout this whole vid each time the siren sounds off my hair stood on end, got goosebumps and tingles up the spine! As for decomming the sirens and switching to text alerts, Britain will eventually find out how well that works out during a mass casualty event in which they alerted everyone via text, but not everyone either sees the text, gets annoyed and swipes it off the screen before fully reading, has their phone off or simply doesn't have access to a device with texting services. And then to usual petty bickering of this and that which usually happens will happen and nothing gets resolved... Still interesting to see that theres still sirens in use over there, even if they are being used for every kind of danger than the one they were intended for...
Here in Australia a lot of the ww2 sirens are in use by rural fire stations as warning sirens during fire season when a town is under immediate threat by a bushfire
Hearing the local fire station siren sound on a 40 degree day with strong northerlies and a plume of black smoke towering is my worst nightmare
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One time in the mid 1980's in a town in central Scotland I was just leaving the house with my girlfriend and I hear one of those sirens, it was unmistakable probably because I had seen so many war films and documentaries. I was in my mid 20's had lived in that town all my life and had never heard this before.
My girlfriend had no reaction to it at all, I doubt she recognized it for what it was but this was the cold war prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union and I was concerned enough to make an excuse to go back inside for something I had left, but what I actually did was turn on the TV and a radio, just to make sure the world appeared normal.
It did, I later discovered yes indeed it was an air raid siren attached to a police station and it had been triggered accidentally.
its amazing Britan still uses them today and that they are being put to good use too
In germany its mendetory that every city has sirens, with codes and patterns for most emergencys. Mostly used for Firefighters in case of big fires or for the Fire Fighters that arent on duty to go to the stations.
🤷♂️ not anymore
We had one on a pole outside the council office just up the road, right up until the 90's
It was a nuclear warning because the area hadn't been developed until the 1950's. I remember it being tested once.
It reminded me of the one we used to hear every few weeks when we were stationed on a military base in the 70's
The sound still upsets me to this day
1:48 at least doctor who was there to save them
*Thumbs Up*
This makes me proud to be British, Brave and Defiant ☺️☺️⭐⭐🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧💂♀️💂♀️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. It’s still serviceable
EDIT: I screwed up the 69 likes
I remember the Germans testing theirs every other Saturday at noon (or maybe once a month, not sure) when we lived in Osnabruck where my dad served with BAOR in the early 80s. Always a somewhat eerie experience for a lad of ten brought up on a diet of my nan’s Blitz tales...
Same here in italy. We still test them every Saturday at noon.
Over here in Australia, we use the sirens to warn about bushfires, car crashes and to let are volunteer firefighters know if they are needed.
When you're live in world war two days.
every time you've hear that sounds
it traumatized you.
When I was a schoolboy in Coventry the air raid sirens went off around 6.30am.This was the height of the Cold War(I think 1981 or 82) so people panicked and some were running around in their nightclothes in the street, thinking it was the 4 minute warning and that a nuclear attack was imminent.There were rumours of some suicides.We were later told it was a false alarm set off by a policeman accidentally pressing the wrong button.With hindsight it looks to me as though the population of Coventry were used as lab rats by some government department to test what peoples reactions would be in case of a nuclear war.Apparently there was a failsafe system needing two keys to activate it so the idea it was set off accidentally sounds highly unlikely.There was no mention of it at all in the press so if anyone else has any recollections of it I'd be very interested.
Chris Morfill wow what an interesting story! I’m so bummed (but also probably quite lucky!) that I didn’t get to live through an era of widely used siren networks. Having that tension there must’ve been ultimately terrifying and anxiety inducing, but I feel it would somewhat fascinate me too 🤔
100 percent not a copper setting it off by accident 😂. It’s hardly like the switch(es) for it will be next to the tea room kettle.
Me: pauses video
*siren still going off*
Also me: OHHHH MYYYY GOOOOODNES
I need one of these Sirens because we got a LUNATIC for Prime Minister in Canada, Justin Trudope !
F
Lol you moron.
so have we in Britain, unfortunately his siamese twin brother is President of the country south of you
In France we have a siren on every firestation. They're tested 5-10 minutes on the first wednesday of every month.
Decommissioning them would be a terrible idea.
In my country it's tested every day at nearly 5:30 pm in my area sorry for my grammar
Got used to them as a kid..... our town used to use them to call out our volunteer fire brigade right through the 1970s till they changed to pagers.....
It's a F-KN horrifying sound i gotta say, we also had them as SHARK sirens in Australia for years, the fear and dread that comes over you like a wave is paralizing for about 3 seconds, then it's a massive adrenaline rush that gets you running to shore like ol J.C. himself. but if it's a choice between bombs and eaten by sharks...i'll take Piccadilly any day.
That siren still till this day triggers my PTSD from Iran - Iraq war. When Iraqis fired Scud missiles on Teheran where i lived from 1982-1991 so between 1982-1988 my regular day life was to survive the bombing and that siren was part of my fear. I still get goose bumps to this day every time i hear that siren
Air raid sirens: sounding
The Subtitles:[Music]
And then
Applause
Laughter
And people in 2020 think they have it hard with Lockdown and things that we can't do during the pandemic. Infinite respect to the brave people who fought and lost their lives.
As a shift worker, I wasn't too dismayed when the Broadmoor system was decommissioned! Always woke me up!
I remember the Broadmoor siren tests as a young child in the '70s when I was playing outdoors. One had a fault and would sound two internittent tones.
I think it was tested every tuesday at 10:00am
These are now used as tornado sirens in many parts of the US. Having grown up in the Midwest US, where tornadoes are common, this sound is familiar and gives me a primal, fight-or-flight response feeling.
I’ve heard these a lot they are all over in Hawaii and test them once a month. Plus I was there for 3 tsunamis 🌊 and they went off all day
I know for a fact that those sirens would work better as when a earthquake happened I got the text message 10min later
We in sweden still use our siren’s yearly, though we weren’t in any war we still had them of course. The siren’s are tested 4 times a year and it’s an event called “hesa fredrik” or “raspy fredrik” and everytime it happens they tell you on the news at what time and what all the different tones mean.
7:03 I lived in grays, bordering Purfleet and West Thurrock for a few years. Good lord that siren was not only fascinating, but actually kinda annoying. Still though, knowing where the siren is, it's amazing how far away you can hear them when you experience it for yourself.
Believe it or not we actually still use an air raid siren on our monorail remain power unit and they work very very well.
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Building at 2:04 completely destroyed:
Sign: *we are still open*
They technically are still open. Their entire store is open
I Rarely Railfan true lol
ww2: Everyone play their role, take shellter from bombing.
2020: Everyone play their role, stay home.
@Saipan Sam German has reached US yet that time?
1:49 The doctor played a huge part in the war effort.
This is an absolutely terrifying sound. I would be so scared if I heard this sound in 1945.
I would be scared to hear it now. Especoally since we don't have any of that in canada.
I went to graduate school at Clemson University in South Carolina. The nuclear plant was only about 10 miles away. The power company had many sirens in the surrounding area. They would test them several times a year. They were never as loud as the ones in Britain. If the plant melted down, I'm sure I would glow in the dark before hearing any warning.
Hearing the sirens in this video made my legs and the top of my head tingle
i used to hear these sirens being tested as flood alerts on Canvey Island Essex back in the 70s and 80s.
there was one not far from my home along Sommes Avenue.
Old man hears siren
Old Man: pulls out rifle and gets on WWll uniform
underrated comment😂
I live in western NY, and we still have our ww1 air-raid siren. We use it for weather alerts and noon fire alarm
When I visited Plymouth a few years ago, I actually got to witness and hear them testing their old WW2 sirens.
They are a mixture of klaxon sirens like WW2 sirens because they still use the old attack signal at the RN docks down in Plymouth but the only difference is they are newer and they have shutters. There are cold war sirens and newer klaxon sirens in colderdale and Leeds for floods
The sound of ww2 is my wake up alarm, and still there are days I oversleep ... i'm unemployed at the moment -.-
Who is here after what Vladimir putin(Hitler)is doing to Ukraine in 21 century....?
Me
Lol imagine calling Putin hitler. He’s liberating Ukraine from their evil government
I’m from New Zealand, to this day nearly every town and city iv been to, still use these for fire brigade.
I actually live in Dartford and as far as I know, Hesketh park used to have one. The box is still there, but the unit's gone. I never got to see it. However there is one across the river in Essex somewhere. On the right day you can hear it in the distance.
I wonder if any of the sirens would still be in service today if they were *"Made In China"* ❓ 🤔
I think they would still be in service but just repurposed as paperweights
lets be real, its not where they are made, its what they are made from
I live on the same street as one of these, they use it for fire and highway accidents. If you’re outside and it’s going off, you’re going deaf. It’s also wonderful to hear repeatedly at 4 in the morning when you are trying to sleep. There’s really no modern need for it where I live, emergency response teams have cell phones.🤷🏽♀️