WW2 Air Raid Sirens Still Saving Lives

[1srelluc]

My VFD still maintains/tests the WW-2 Air Raid Siren they got when the Rayon War Plant opened in my town.

After the war the VFD in town used their old air raid siren to call volunteers and for Civil defense during the Cold War. The surrounding VFDs in the county would start theirs too. It was a really eerie sound when you were up on the ridges and hear them all going at once.

When the sirens went off volunteers/police could call a dedicated phone number to hear where the fire was.

It sounded almost exactly like this:



It's use to call volunteers was discontinued when cell phones were issued to the volunteers and paid staff.

A VFD in a neighboring county still sounds theirs at noon each day.

 

[White 6]

My VFD still maintains/tests the WW-2 Air Raid Siren they got when the Rayon War Plant opened in my town.

After the war the VFD in town used their old air raid siren to call volunteers and for Civil defense during the Cold War. The surrounding VFDs in the county would start theirs too. It was a really eerie sound when you were up on the ridges and hear them all going at once.

When the sirens went off volunteers/police could call a dedicated phone number to hear where the fire was.

It sounded almost exactly like this:



It's use to call volunteers was discontinued when cell phones were issued to the volunteers and paid staff.

A VFD in a neighboring county still sounds theirs at noon each day.

Way back, when my father, brothers and I were in the volunteer fire department in Hendron, outside of Paducah, a siren like that was what alerted or woke us in the middle of the night to report to the firehouse to man the trucks.

It sounds pretty much like the Tornado sirens, across the city I live in, now.

 

[Concerned American]

My VFD still maintains/tests the WW-2 Air Raid Siren they got when the Rayon War Plant opened in my town.

After the war the VFD in town used their old air raid siren to call volunteers and for Civil defense during the Cold War. The surrounding VFDs in the county would start theirs too. It was a really eerie sound when you were up on the ridges and hear them all going at once.

When the sirens went off volunteers/police could call a dedicated phone number to hear where the fire was.

It sounded almost exactly like this:



It's use to call volunteers was discontinued when cell phones were issued to the volunteers and paid staff.

A VFD in a neighboring county still sounds theirs at noon each day.

Our county seat still has one that goes off at noon every day.

 

[Hellokitty]

Our county seat still has one that goes off at noon every day.

Everyday, why? Our area does the tornado sirens randomly, I remember places they didn't them monthly.

 

[1srelluc]

Everyday, why? Our area does the tornado sirens randomly, I remember places they didn't them monthly.

It's an anachronism I know, but the one that goes off the next county over is in a farming community, and it lets those in the fields know it's lunch time.

 

[Concerned American]

Everyday, why? Our area does the tornado sirens randomly, I remember places they didn't them monthly.

Used to be that many small towns would sound a noon siren/whistle. Not so much anymore, but ours still does.