MISS that sound. Pops was the volunteer fire chief of our rural dept in Robbins,Ca. We literally lived across the street from the firehouse. Used to love Pops waking Me up "Go hit the siren button boy, we got work' then watching the cars/trucks pull in from everywhere,and I knew every one of em.Went to school w/their kids,worked on their farms/ranches in summer. That siren though...You could hear that damn thing near to the next county over! Rest easy Pops. The new gen is doing just fine out there.
@@vitaliyfdny8238 seriously took Me on a 40plus year journey into My childhood. Pops was My hero and one hell of a Man. Ty for posting. We never know how these things we post will work out,but after the pandemic year from hell,this was a great sidetrip into the memories of a old man remembering simpler times and happier moments. Be well Vitaliy!
@@cobrakai65 Grandpa made sure I knew..those men AND women were leaving warm beds,dinners,time w/their family,to go help someone they don't know in a moment of need. He made sure I knew they did it w/out money,and did it cause other people mattered. So when I hit that siren,I knew,these people cared,and I wanted to be like them
Its always so reassuring to hear these sirens to know that help is on its way. The only sad thing about them is when you hear the siren shut off and then restart minutes later a couple times because not enough people are responding
Exactly. We need more volunteers. But we also need to better incentivize people to get in. You got the people that wanna do it and the people that need to make it worth it a bit which is fair. Pay per diem. Pay a stipend. Offer even better tax cuts. But something.
One of my local Fire fighters was forced to pretty much respond on his own one day (Wasn't even a certified driver of the truck) it was a structure fire in the main street of town, he wasn't alone for long because about 15 minutes later another brigade arrived
The exception to that is if the station gets another call/needs additional resources. I've seen that happen before. Responded with my former company's engine on a structure fire. While we were en route, OIC upgraded to 2nd alarm; and our tanker was on that box.
@@hueynapalmyeah. Something for sure. As well as a revamp of the people in the service if I’m to be honest. It’s not as welcoming in rural areas as folks would have you believe. Very clique-y, fit-in-or-get-out, a lot of cronyism and favoritism I’ve experienced having done it 14.5 years. There’s a reason I don’t anymore if I’m to be honest.
My grandparents lives directly next to a fire station. The sound always scared me so much but since my dad was a firefighter (different department) they always told me dad was going to work. Happy memories with this sound
Our fd sounds like that I am from abbeville sc I am a fire fighter been doing it for 47 years still doing it. We have. 5 trucks may the good Lord be with us amen
Whoow, that is 100 % chilling and amazing as well! I am blind, So in the situation, I orient myself according to the sounds. I have been loving firefighters and firefighting since my childhood and now I am 36, LOL! I am member of Voluntary Firefighter brigade, what is located in Mezibori town in The Czech republic and I am even honorary member of our 1st response ladder! We have two Tatra fire engines and one Ford transit, what is ready for response to emergency call (car accident, fallen trees, life - saving / first aid, patient transport, search and rescue and pet rescue, of course. I focus on the service, so called "Protection of the population", especially educational activities in a wide variety of topics, mainly every day life issues, safety in this or that emergency situation, tips and tricks etc. God bless You all, my brothers and sisters - firefighters not only in the United States of America, but anywhere on our planet, we are one big family! And now, I have right to state: "I am honored to be in such a great, super family." No matter, where are You from! You are firefighter!Greetings from Czech republic, stay safe and be healthy!
Could tell right away that they knew it wasn't going to be much of a call. No one was even hurrying as they arrived . Also people need to be more specific when they post video's. Upstate, NY. People 60 miles form NY City consider themselves in upstate NY.
if I am not mistaken that sounded like a Diesel Engine on 2 of the Firetrucks. I never knew Fire Departments had Diesel Engines but awesome video, those Fire Trucks were in great working condition. keep up the good work to who recorded this and hope to see more videos like this. I remember being in a small town when I heard this same siren going off I thought maybe it was a Tornado warning but the Residents told me it was to alert the Local Volunteer Fire Department
This reminds me of when I was a little kid and my father was a firefighter in the 60s in Europe I remember watching my Dad running out of the door 🤔those were the good happy times!
I want to join but am autistic and have no athleticism never done any sports, but I can run 7.4 min mile, 40 pushups etc just worried on how athletic/coordinated one has to be to make it through training.
Here in the UK we have whole time ( career ) firefighters and retained ( part time ). A retained firefighter is trained to the same standard as whole time and is paid a retainer every 4 weeks based on contractual availability, typically 30-120 hours per week In addition they are paid the national hourly rate for training sessions and when deployed to an incident (minimum 3 hours pay). There are a just handful of completely volunteer departments in the entire UK. These are usually in remote locations or islands where the county/regional fire service deem it unnecessary or not cost effective. The locals will either purchase an old fire appliance themselves or receive a donated appliance and free training and logistic support from the county. The volunteers typically will be unpaid.
Our Fire department here in Carrolton, Michigan is the same way. The tornado sirens goes off whenever they get a call. I've tried a few times to make it over there to see the trucks. They have an older fire engine, by older I mean early 90's but I love it its cool.
I'm not familiar with Carrolton or their gear but when I get a chance I'll head over that way and see if I can catch a call or 2. Its nice to see the smaller departments rise to big challenges.
@@Stargazzer811 Funny that you commented on this, I was able to finally catch that old fire engine leaving the station. I followed them (not closely) to the call.
I heard a siren that sounded just like this when I was coming home a few nights ago, and it scared me because I had never heard it before, I guess it was a fire station siren lol.
I miss having sirens in England, all on call firefighters have been alerted by pagers for decades, we also only have one volunteer engine in all of England the rest are either wholetime or on call
Yes my dad was on call retained at Dereham, Norfolk County, England. 1971-89. Used to have an old air raid siren on the drill tower and a telephone operated bell in the house. They would go off simultaneously by day but no siren at night. They were remotely operated by a radio signal from brigade HQ twenty miles away. We never got the bell because a few weeks after he joined Norfolk replaced the call out system with pagers made by Pye the size of a house brick. Devon were still using sirens in 1976. Today the pagers are smart phones where you can make yourself available, go off duty and see what the job is before you leave home. How times have changed.
One thing we do know, no "Karens" live in that town or the siren would no longer be blowing. Town I lived in did away with them because the "Karens" complained about them.
@@trvman1 Yep. That and clock towers that strike the hours too. Forget that the clock on that church steeple or courthouse has been doing it for 150 years. "Karen," who just moved into town, doesn't like hearing it (even with it only striking during the daytime).
Not 100% sure why, but the firefighter who pulled the Mack out got a toolbox off the rig and went to the rig parked behind the rescue and started working on it
We have in 1 fire station fire chief and to rescue pummper truck and 1 bush engge and 1 ladder truck and 1 water tanker and to bush truck and to rescue ambulance
Like ummm why did they pull it out and leave it running? They must be really trusting of people. Maybe time to get a new one if they need to have it running like that.
I was curious as to why they pulled the rescue out too if they weren't taking it on the call with them. I just thought it was pointless. Our department never does that.
Ich schaue Feuerwehr-Video extrem gerne, weil ich selbst, bis zu einem Unfall dabei war...ich bin nur immer wieder (fast schon entsetzt!) was für lange Anfahrwege ihr habt, ob zur Wache oder zum Einsatz...echt heftig. Wenn ich fragen darf: Wie hoch sind die Chancen rechtzeitig zu einer Rettung von z.B. Leben da zu sein? Mir ist bewusst, dass USA ein sehr weitläufiges Land ist, aber trotzdem empfinde ich, persönlich, die Fahrzeiten viel zu lang.
Hi Amed I'll answer your question precisely and no bullshit.Firstly I'm in the UK born in 1961 in Lincoln Lincolnshire born and raised and still living between the 2 biggest RAF bases that were home of the beautiful delta winged VULCAN BOMBER aircraft ( essential viewing),the air attack siren giving the doomsday 4m imminent nuclear inbound missiles was regularly active and deathly scary....not knowing if Armageddon was only minutes away.Also the RAF would launch as many as 20 YES 20 plus of the VULCAN BOMBER aircraft day or night ( war doesn't discriminate 24/7 attacks) fully loaded with more nukes than required to wipe out massive sections of the then USSR and other hostile and nuclear equipped countries.The scrambled aircraft seemed never ending being launched and the deafening sound of their engines,the smell of aviation fuel and the awesome ground vibration was frightening and reassuring knowing they had a chance to wipe out hostile enemy countries but realising that their bases or countries may not exist if they managed to return home due to being totally anhiallalted and it doesn't get worse than that given a choice death would be the best outcome possible knowingly full well of suffering radiation related illnesses and a terribly slow painful death the only outcome of a global strike.I shall end my post now and let you research the rest to satisfy your curiosity and more but please reply when you can or if you choose to do so.....
A great service. Those men and women Provide to their community Sacrificing time with their families And willing to risk death and injury To serve the people
@@vitaliyfdny8238 the guy spray painted "FUCK CFD" across 3 bay doors while we were in the station. Dude threw a punch at me and got his ass handed to him. Cops showed up he got 2 years probation and they ordered the siren to be only used during inclement weather.
I live one block from a fire house and the response time is eight minutes. 8 minutes, they are full time paid fire fighters. 8 MINUTES 1 block! 1000 feet.
This is my country. And irreregardless of those who would hurt her, There are those who fight for her. When you call, we come. Even when we're asleep. God bless you.
My fire station used to have one long with the other fire station people in the community complained and they stopped sounding them for fire calls only tornados now
@@vitaliyfdny8238 i would have to agree now it just sucks cause we relie on pager radio's each station has a different page tones it's a real pain now but i do miss the sirens sounding just sucks people don't under stand the importance of them here our sirens only sounded from 7 am to 10 pm then they didn't but people still got there way now there silent sucks
Or a chief officer yeah. In NY State, they’re like PA. The only ones whom can run red is the department chief, deputy chief, and assistant chief ranks. Every one else is blue. In PA at least, the fire police captain (head of the fire police for the company) can also have a forward facing white light, and a siren(in dept chief’s permission.)
@@vitaliyfdny8238 th-cam.com/video/kG7wI1GKsHs/w-d-xo.html around 3:25 . I remember this sound, we also had one in my old home town, before mobile phones became standard. And that tone was used for fire alerts and general warnings
@@vitaliyfdny8238 Side note: if you like videos with fire brigades: th-cam.com/video/a8kFY3NdkP4/w-d-xo.html - starting at 1:10. There was a flash flood in Germany, and the video shows volunteers driving to this area.
Their bosses definitely are aware of their job and if I had to guess I’d assume they have some sort of agreements/plans set in case of a call during work
I don't know for your area but most volunteer departments in us require the call be acknowledged an at the station within 5 minutes of the siren sounding. Most rural department response times are between 8 to 15minutes due to a mix of distance and constant need of volunteers for alot of stations
@@billyweir714 not all the volunteer fire departments can afford pagers for everyone. It also alerts traffic to be aware of fire engines that will be responding it also in a odd way is reassuring to whoever called 911 because they hear that siren in distance and they know that fire fighters are coming as quick as they can
@@gewurzgurkenkaiser2575 I think it may be because most of the volunteers were nearby since there was going to be a parade in 20 or so minutes, but that’s just my guess. Thanks for the comment!
Hi, have a curiosity question who turns the siren on obviously someone does is it a volunteer it takes the call or is it done remotely from another Town
It depends on the call, for this one as soon as the dispatcher assigned the call to this department the siren went on, for other departments it could be a person at the station turning it on.
No offense to the volunteers, but what a nightmare it would be to have to depend on a volunteer fire department. All things considered, the response time getting out of the fire house wasn't horrible, but still -- for the people who called 9-1-1, it must have seemed like a god damn eternity.
Well there’s a reason they’re volunteer, they don’t get as much calls compared to city departments therefore there would be no reason for a full time department.
Well in Germany 90% are volunteer Firefighters. At my Station the Chiers car is Starting 1 Min after the Alarm. The first Truck after 3 Minutes. I think thats a pretty god time
Here in Europe where I live, every public building has a poster with siren warning meaning. Basically, different types of warnings have different intervals between high and low tones.
TearsPlays usually a good way to tell (locals will know their depts personal ones) but some will use different tones. For a fire call it may be high then wind down then high and just repeat that while for a tornado they may just have it stay on high for a minute before winding down and then repeating that as a more stretched out tone to determine tornado vs fire
MISS that sound. Pops was the volunteer fire chief of our rural dept in Robbins,Ca. We literally lived across the street from the firehouse. Used to love Pops waking Me up "Go hit the siren button boy, we got work' then watching the cars/trucks pull in from everywhere,and I knew every one of em.Went to school w/their kids,worked on their farms/ranches in summer. That siren though...You could hear that damn thing near to the next county over! Rest easy Pops. The new gen is doing just fine out there.
Great story! Thanks for sharing 😊
@@vitaliyfdny8238 seriously took Me on a 40plus year journey into My childhood. Pops was My hero and one hell of a Man. Ty for posting. We never know how these things we post will work out,but after the pandemic year from hell,this was a great sidetrip into the memories of a old man remembering simpler times and happier moments. Be well Vitaliy!
@@seanham4040 Thank you for the amazing story!
That's a great story. Thanks for sharing . I bet you LOVED hittin that siren button. 🚨
@@cobrakai65 Grandpa made sure I knew..those men AND women were leaving warm beds,dinners,time w/their family,to go help someone they don't know in a moment of need. He made sure I knew they did it w/out money,and did it cause other people mattered. So when I hit that siren,I knew,these people cared,and I wanted to be like them
Its always so reassuring to hear these sirens to know that help is on its way.
The only sad thing about them is when you hear the siren shut off and then restart minutes later a couple times because not enough people are responding
Exactly. We need more volunteers. But we also need to better incentivize people to get in. You got the people that wanna do it and the people that need to make it worth it a bit which is fair. Pay per diem. Pay a stipend. Offer even better tax cuts. But something.
One of my local Fire fighters was forced to pretty much respond on his own one day (Wasn't even a certified driver of the truck) it was a structure fire in the main street of town, he wasn't alone for long because about 15 minutes later another brigade arrived
The exception to that is if the station gets another call/needs additional resources. I've seen that happen before. Responded with my former company's engine on a structure fire. While we were en route, OIC upgraded to 2nd alarm; and our tanker was on that box.
well, it takes time for folks to drive over, park, get their gear on before responding
@@hueynapalmyeah. Something for sure. As well as a revamp of the people in the service if I’m to be honest. It’s not as welcoming in rural areas as folks would have you believe. Very clique-y, fit-in-or-get-out, a lot of cronyism and favoritism I’ve experienced having done it 14.5 years. There’s a reason I don’t anymore if I’m to be honest.
My grandparents lives directly next to a fire station. The sound always scared me so much but since my dad was a firefighter (different department) they always told me dad was going to work. Happy memories with this sound
Our fd sounds like that I am from abbeville sc I am a fire fighter been doing it for 47 years still doing it. We have. 5 trucks may the good Lord be with us amen
That is very cool, thanks for sharing!
We have a Peter built 3000 tanker
@@andypressley4702 Nice!
You know how to tell if someone is a firefighter? They'll always tell you....
@@timberslayer2187 if you're doing the best Thing in the world you just want to talk about it. 😉
Nice Catch!👍 love the Mack’s!👍
Whoow, that is 100 % chilling and amazing as well! I am blind, So in the situation, I orient myself according to the sounds. I have been loving firefighters and firefighting since my childhood and now I am 36, LOL! I am member of Voluntary Firefighter brigade, what is located in Mezibori town in The Czech republic and I am even honorary member of our 1st response ladder! We have two Tatra fire engines and one Ford transit, what is ready for response to emergency call (car accident, fallen trees, life - saving / first aid, patient transport, search and rescue and pet rescue, of course. I focus on the service, so called "Protection of the population", especially educational activities in a wide variety of topics, mainly every day life issues, safety in this or that emergency situation, tips and tricks etc. God bless You all, my brothers and sisters - firefighters not only in the United States of America, but anywhere on our planet, we are one big family! And now, I have right to state: "I am honored to be in such a great, super family." No matter, where are You from! You are firefighter!Greetings from Czech republic, stay safe and be healthy!
That’s amazing thanks for sharing! Greetings from the United States 🤙
And to you from a retired firefighter stay safe
@@russellrouse1371 Thank You, brother! Greetings from Czech republic...
that is so cool! I fully stand behind the use of house sirens!
Awesome catches!! I love that Peterbuilt engine!! And that rescue sounds amazing!
Thank you and yes the mack sounds very nice!
Could tell right away that they knew it wasn't going to be much of a call. No one was even hurrying as they arrived . Also people need to be more specific when they post video's. Upstate, NY. People 60 miles form NY City consider themselves in upstate NY.
@@trvman1 well you have the towns name so I don’t know what more specific you would want.
@@trvman1, that seems ridiculously unnecessary.
@@trvman1 60 miles from NYC is Newburgh area which is pretty fuckin far from nyc....
construction crew: how close to the road do you want us to put the station?
fire company: yes.
if I am not mistaken that sounded like a Diesel Engine on 2 of the Firetrucks. I never knew Fire Departments had Diesel Engines but awesome video, those Fire Trucks were in great working condition. keep up the good work to who recorded this and hope to see more videos like this. I remember being in a small town when I heard this same siren going off I thought maybe it was a Tornado warning but the Residents told me it was to alert the Local Volunteer Fire Department
This reminds me of when I was a little kid and my father was a firefighter in the 60s in Europe I remember watching my Dad running out of the door 🤔those were the good happy times!
I have been a volunteer firefighter for 1 year and I like what I do
I want to join but am autistic and have no athleticism never done any sports, but I can run 7.4 min mile, 40 pushups etc just worried on how athletic/coordinated one has to be to make it through training.
Thank Gawd we are all DIFFERENT and do what works for US.
Here in the UK we have whole time ( career ) firefighters and retained ( part time ). A retained firefighter is trained to the same standard as whole time and is paid a retainer every 4 weeks based on contractual availability, typically 30-120 hours per week In addition they are paid the national hourly rate for training sessions and when deployed to an incident (minimum 3 hours pay). There are a just handful of completely volunteer departments in the entire UK. These are usually in remote locations or islands where the county/regional fire service deem it unnecessary or not cost effective. The locals will either purchase an old fire appliance themselves or receive a donated appliance and free training and logistic support from the county. The volunteers typically will be unpaid.
Very interesting to see a response from a volunteer fire department in a rural area.
Awesome! Cool to see such old sirens still kickin!
Thank you!
I love these old sirens too! This is simply nostalgia, because the most of fire cars are equiped with modern ones, here in the Czech republic...
Our Fire department here in Carrolton, Michigan is the same way. The tornado sirens goes off whenever they get a call. I've tried a few times to make it over there to see the trucks. They have an older fire engine, by older I mean early 90's but I love it its cool.
I'm not familiar with Carrolton or their gear but when I get a chance I'll head over that way and see if I can catch a call or 2. Its nice to see the smaller departments rise to big challenges.
@@Stargazzer811 Funny that you commented on this, I was able to finally catch that old fire engine leaving the station. I followed them (not closely) to the call.
I am watching from Elmira NY a good response time from a volunteer fire department
I heard a siren that sounded just like this when I was coming home a few nights ago, and it scared me because I had never heard it before, I guess it was a fire station siren lol.
Akron Fire Co (PA) has one of those sirens, and I just saw today that Elgin, TX, has one too.
Oh cool, thanks for sharing!
Upon further review, I may be wrong about Elgin, TX. It looks like an M-series. I'm just not sure what kind.
I miss having sirens in England, all on call firefighters have been alerted by pagers for decades, we also only have one volunteer engine in all of England the rest are either wholetime or on call
Thanks for sharing!
Note, on call means paid a retainers and for time training and when working, my county's on call do a 32 day course at our training facility
@@stevenbowers4164 wow that’s very interesting! Thanks for sharing.
Yes my dad was on call retained at Dereham, Norfolk County, England. 1971-89. Used to have an old air raid siren on the drill tower and a telephone operated bell in the house. They would go off simultaneously by day but no siren at night. They were remotely operated by a radio signal from brigade HQ twenty miles away. We never got the bell because a few weeks after he joined Norfolk replaced the call out system with pagers made by Pye the size of a house brick. Devon were still using sirens in 1976. Today the pagers are smart phones where you can make yourself available, go off duty and see what the job is before you leave home. How times have changed.
A throwback to pure small town Americana right there. I miss those times.
One thing we do know, no "Karens" live in that town or the siren would no longer be blowing. Town I lived in did away with them because the "Karens" complained about them.
You miss 30 minute response times? No thanks. My taxes are high but firemen and medics are paid well and get there fast.
@@roomdog40 And if you lived in a small town that could not afford their own paid fire department, you would appreciate the volunteers.
@@trvman1 Yep. That and clock towers that strike the hours too. Forget that the clock on that church steeple or courthouse has been doing it for 150 years. "Karen," who just moved into town, doesn't like hearing it (even with it only striking during the daytime).
Looks like Mack MC rigs. Scratching my head as to why the rescue was parked across the street. Was waiting for an additional rig to pull out.
Not 100% sure why, but the firefighter who pulled the Mack out got a toolbox off the rig and went to the rig parked behind the rescue and started working on it
Rookie driver
@@mattteixeira2788 Rookie commenter Texarkana.
I really liked the video. The scenery is beautiful too. I would go camping there. Good job you all.
Thank you very much! It’s a place near a very nice lodge place with no internet and a river right next to it called Buck Horn Lodge.
I come from small town in iowa wair we have volunteer fire Department with 30 volunteers firefighters that run out 1 fire station
Very nice, how many apparatus?
We have in 1 fire station fire chief and to rescue pummper truck and 1 bush engge and 1 ladder truck and 1 water tanker and to bush truck and to rescue ambulance
Utility forgot their reds
Yup, haha.
Given how dead the roads look and the fact everyone just had to endure that god awful siren……I think they will be ok
@@calreed5862 😂👍🚒
Nice vid. Here in Germany the siren is in case of fire howling 3 times. Greetings from Saxony.
Thank you and greetings from New York City!
Great video, rigs, catch, and beautiful area. That damn Mack blocked the view of the 2nd rig responding.
Thank you 😊
Originally from Chautauqua co. And I miss hearing the sirens. Don TY have them here in Indiana.
Nice, and I got really lucky catching the siren on video.
Reminds me of my childhood in Spartanburg,SC. Whitney,Hilltop and North Spartanburg.
Was a volunteer firefighter and miss that siren
In my hometown we still blast the sirens
That's an 8/8 port sterling M siren. Super rare.
Good to know, thanks for sharing!
Awesome catch of the Sterling M10 and department response!
Thank you and I’ve been told it’s a carter siren.
@@vitaliyfdny8238 it's not a carter who ever said that was incorrect
Nice Sterling siren! Fire trucks are cool too!
Thank you!!
No-one here talking about that Mack rescue ? :0
Haha yea it sure is a beauty.
Like ummm why did they pull it out and leave it running? They must be really trusting of people. Maybe time to get a new one if they need to have it running like that.
MC cab?
@@anmlrsqnj Most people where I live don’t lock their door. Not every place has thieves running around all the time.
I was curious as to why they pulled the rescue out too if they weren't taking it on the call with them. I just thought it was pointless. Our department never does that.
When we lived NW of there in Aurora, the siren went off every day at noon.
I couldn't get a good look at the siren, but judging from the shape and the sound it made, it looked and sounded to be an old Sterling siren.
Thanks for the comment! Some other people in the comments said the same
No pagers……thought the city wide sirens were from the 70’s……cool though
My town has pagers and the siren... the siren only goes off for fire calls and not medic so yes pretty sure all stations have pagers
Better to have both, never know when pagers will go down.
We had the same rooftop siren. Back when we couldn't afford paging devices. It's how we knew to respond to the hall.
Are small town has a siren to let the volunteers know they are needed as well.
Wait, is that a B&W siren
Ich schaue Feuerwehr-Video extrem gerne, weil ich selbst, bis zu einem Unfall dabei war...ich bin nur immer wieder (fast schon entsetzt!) was für lange Anfahrwege ihr habt, ob zur Wache oder zum Einsatz...echt heftig.
Wenn ich fragen darf: Wie hoch sind die Chancen rechtzeitig zu einer Rettung von z.B. Leben da zu sein? Mir ist bewusst, dass USA ein sehr weitläufiges Land ist, aber trotzdem empfinde ich, persönlich, die Fahrzeiten viel zu lang.
when I started my career as a fire fighter we had sirens too. then our town got big enough to get us radios and they retired the sirens
Is that a Sterling? It sure looks like one but has lower tone than the one I used to live by.
No, I’ve been told it’s a carter and is quite rare in the US.
It's a Sterling Model M siren
@@vitaliyfdny8238 indeed is Rare. Most are WWll era. However, I remember the tone being higher, perhaps it has a old motor.
It’s an 8 port Sterling, some are 16/16 or 8/16, so an 8 port is a lower tone. It’s an American siren.
@@Squad21Photography That would explain it. Its been a month or two since I have paid any attention to sirens, I’m a little rusty.
I dont want to imagine how the people felt during the cold ward years. Nice alarm btw
Thank you!
Hi Amed I'll answer your question precisely and no bullshit.Firstly I'm in the UK born in 1961 in Lincoln Lincolnshire born and raised and still living between the 2 biggest RAF bases that were home of the beautiful delta winged VULCAN BOMBER aircraft ( essential viewing),the air attack siren giving the doomsday 4m imminent nuclear inbound missiles was regularly active and deathly scary....not knowing if Armageddon was only minutes away.Also the RAF would launch as many as 20 YES 20 plus of the VULCAN BOMBER aircraft day or night ( war doesn't discriminate 24/7 attacks) fully loaded with more nukes than required to wipe out massive sections of the then USSR and other hostile and nuclear equipped countries.The scrambled aircraft seemed never ending being launched and the deafening sound of their engines,the smell of aviation fuel and the awesome ground vibration was frightening and reassuring knowing they had a chance to wipe out hostile enemy countries but realising that their bases or countries may not exist if they managed to return home due to being totally anhiallalted and it doesn't get worse than that given a choice death would be the best outcome possible knowingly full well of suffering radiation related illnesses and a terribly slow painful death the only outcome of a global strike.I shall end my post now and let you research the rest to satisfy your curiosity and more but please reply when you can or if you choose to do so.....
A great service. Those men and women
Provide to their community
Sacrificing time with their families
And willing to risk death and injury
To serve the people
We can't use our fire siren anymore. Hippies that bought three house across the street from the fire station complained it was to loud
That sucks
@@vitaliyfdny8238 the guy spray painted "FUCK CFD" across 3 bay doors while we were in the station. Dude threw a punch at me and got his ass handed to him. Cops showed up he got 2 years probation and they ordered the siren to be only used during inclement weather.
@@be5575 It’s unfortunate how people are so unhinged these days. Sorry you had to be involved in stuff
So we're ignoring the first unit out had no lights on?
My fire dept is yellow, so is there trucks
Originally from Utica, dated a girl from Walton/Downsville. Drove past E Branch many times. Cheers from Buenos Aires.
Nice story, thanks for sharing!
4:45 Considering that looks like smoke there was a fire somewhere.
No those were just the low clouds because 20 minutes after was a huge storm, and they were back too fast for it to be a fire.
I live one block from a fire house and the response time is eight minutes. 8 minutes, they are full time paid fire fighters. 8 MINUTES 1 block! 1000 feet.
They not heard of pagers or phones?
No service in a lot of the surrounding areas, siren comes in very handy a lot of the times.
Pagers and phones require a good signal, a charged battery, and need to be carried at all times.
Sirens can be heard for upwards of 3 miles.
What county ?
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Was that a sterling m-10? If so, how loud was it?
I think so, and in person it was pretty darn loud.
When Fairdale Fire Department had their siren it was sounded remotely for fire runs or it could be sounded from the station for other purposes.
Nice! I think it’s similar at this department.
@@vitaliyfdny8238 it might be a call for a structure fire
@@Belchmaster41 Don’t think it was, the rigs were back quickly.
How busy is this department? Why are some volunteers depts. busier than others? Any in Oneida county that our busy?
Not sure how busy this department is and it really depends on the area. And I’m not sure about Oneida county.
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It sounds exactly the way ours sounds in Woodlawn ,Ohio 3mins
Darley Champion or a Sterling? The echoes are also insane!
I agree, and I’m not too sure what the siren was, everyone has mixed opinions on which model it is in the comments haha
Looks like a Sterling M series
My fire station used to have one long with the other fire station people in the community complained and they stopped sounding them for fire calls only tornados now
Thanks for sharing, and yea a lot of the people now a days don't like these even though they've been a tradition throughout the departments.
@@vitaliyfdny8238 i would have to agree now it just sucks cause we relie on pager radio's each station has a different page tones it's a real pain now but i do miss the sirens sounding just sucks people don't under stand the importance of them here our sirens only sounded from 7 am to 10 pm then they didn't but people still got there way now there silent sucks
@@andrewbaumgart5521 Yea these sirens are loud as heck, unless you're in deep sleep no way you missing one haha.
That one POV had red at the front. Is that the chief?
Or a chief officer yeah. In NY State, they’re like PA. The only ones whom can run red is the department chief, deputy chief, and assistant chief ranks. Every one else is blue. In PA at least, the fire police captain (head of the fire police for the company) can also have a forward facing white light, and a siren(in dept chief’s permission.)
You have the same sirens to alert people like we have in Germany. With the same terrifying sound.
Haha thank you for sharing.
@@vitaliyfdny8238 th-cam.com/video/kG7wI1GKsHs/w-d-xo.html around 3:25 . I remember this sound, we also had one in my old home town, before mobile phones became standard. And that tone was used for fire alerts and general warnings
@@vitaliyfdny8238 Side note: if you like videos with fire brigades: th-cam.com/video/a8kFY3NdkP4/w-d-xo.html - starting at 1:10. There was a flash flood in Germany, and the video shows volunteers driving to this area.
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Beautiful up there.
Is that sterling 8/8 or is there a 16 that you can’t hear?
May I share this video
I always wonder how does a volunteer FF keep their full time job?
Their bosses definitely are aware of their job and if I had to guess I’d assume they have some sort of agreements/plans set in case of a call during work
Damn what's their response time 15 minutes? No one seemed in a hurry
Volunteer department also pretty sure it was nothing important and they were probably not first due department.
I don't know for your area but most volunteer departments in us require the call be acknowledged an at the station within 5 minutes of the siren sounding.
Most rural department response times are between 8 to 15minutes due to a mix of distance and constant need of volunteers for alot of stations
Is there really a need for the awful sounding siren when the firefighters are getting called out, it going off in the middle of the night?
It’s traditional across many US departments and a way of telling the firefighters they got a run
@@vitaliyfdny8238 really, in this day & age , no pagers. Sounds like an air raid siren during WW2.
@@billyweir714 not all the volunteer fire departments can afford pagers for everyone. It also alerts traffic to be aware of fire engines that will be responding it also in a odd way is reassuring to whoever called 911 because they hear that siren in distance and they know that fire fighters are coming as quick as they can
Need put qsiren those trucks
Yup, but it all depends on them.
Upstate ny you use red lights you allowed use siren
Federal Q. Then the public can hear the red train approaching.
Wow they have the Christmas lights up all ready!!! Lol
Haha yup!
awesome catch video
Thanks man!
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Do they still have the Mack rescue?
Last I checked yes, however that was a while ago so they could’ve replaced it/sold it.
@@vitaliyfdny8238 Ok, trying to track it down for a prior department it served. Thanks
Love that bull dog growl yes fucking sir who woke up that pissed off dog
8/8 port sterling m10 siren! awesome!
Thanks, hope you liked it!
How long did it take from the time the alarm was until they left the station??
Not 100% sure but I'd say 2-3 minutes.
@@vitaliyfdny8238 Wow! This is very fast! In our department we need about 5 minutes
@@gewurzgurkenkaiser2575 I think it may be because most of the volunteers were nearby since there was going to be a parade in 20 or so minutes, but that’s just my guess. Thanks for the comment!
Anyone else notice the office chair in the truck go by at 1:59
I just realized that 😂😂
What part of up state new York is this fire 🔥 dept is? I'm from Steuben County ny area.
This is from East Branch New York. It’s near Downsville, Hancock Township, and Roscoe Rockville.
@@vitaliyfdny8238 wow.
The siren looks to be an old Sterling model.
why did they pull the rescue out and just leave it there?
I believe it was to work on the rig behind the rescue
Hi, have a curiosity question who turns the siren on obviously someone does is it a volunteer it takes the call or is it done remotely from another
Town
It depends on the call, for this one as soon as the dispatcher assigned the call to this department the siren went on, for other departments it could be a person at the station turning it on.
911 dispatch sets them off.
Around here, the sirens are activated by county dispatch (911) via radio. The pagers are set off the same way.
If I Remember right 3 Station Siren means a Fire
Is their a reason why the siren calls so long?
Some sirens are on a 12cycle attack my department is the same way when our tones drop
Love the siren sta
gotta air up the mack
Yup!
Much ado about nothing! I wonder what was behind door #3?!?!
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No pager?
Pretty sure they have pagers, station sirens are continued traditions across volunteer departments.
Do you know this siren?
Sterling Siren Model "M", 8/8 port.
No offense to the volunteers, but what a nightmare it would be to have to depend on a volunteer fire department. All things considered, the response time getting out of the fire house wasn't horrible, but still -- for the people who called 9-1-1, it must have seemed like a god damn eternity.
Well there’s a reason they’re volunteer, they don’t get as much calls compared to city departments therefore there would be no reason for a full time department.
Well in Germany 90% are volunteer Firefighters. At my Station the Chiers car is Starting 1 Min after the Alarm. The first Truck after 3 Minutes. I think thats a pretty god time
@@henrywallach7328 lemme guess: Daytime Standby? Or do you have some full-time units in the loop?
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Also upstate? Everything is upstate to Albany and NYC.
Yup this is upstate.
I think their budget might be too high....
Ok anybody tell me why the lights still on while he returned 2 base n parked back in🤔
A good number of departments do that, I’m pretty sure it’s a safety thing or something.
@@vitaliyfdny8238 lol a big red truck no1 on the road and safety?
@@Thug-12Na yes people still manage sometimes not to see a big red truck
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I'm just here for the Mack MC Squad.
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how do you know if its the alarm or a tornado siren lol
Good question! Personally I don’t even know if they even have a tornado siren in that town.
Here in Europe where I live, every public building has a poster with siren warning meaning.
Basically, different types of warnings have different intervals between high and low tones.
TearsPlays usually a good way to tell (locals will know their depts personal ones) but some will use different tones. For a fire call it may be high then wind down then high and just repeat that while for a tornado they may just have it stay on high for a minute before winding down and then repeating that as a more stretched out tone to determine tornado vs fire