Civil Defense Sirens in New York?

[BerettaGuy]

Being a transplant from Missouri, I grew up with Air Raid Sirens.
They would test them on the First Monday of Every Month at 11:00 AM. And that was a time in the 50's to do the duck and cover drill. PS We still got sonic booms in those days too.
It is an eerie sound. They updated them to Tornado Warnings and those would go off all the time even though the tornado was 20 miles away. So, people learned to ignore them.
They have been replaced with a huge speaker system and someone can actually talk over them.
I remember the first time I heard that. God? Is that YOU?

Moving to Western NY in 1988, I wondered why they didn't have Tornado Sirens. (Because they don't get tornados.)
Then as I was watching a YouTube video about horses in the Netherlands, their Sirens went off during a monthly test.
Are there still counties in NY that have sirens? Just wondering.

 

[ArmedCorgi]

Being a transplant from Missouri, I grew up with Air Raid Sirens.
They would test them on the First Monday of Every Month at 11:00 AM. And that was a time in the 50's to do the duck and cover drill. PS We still got sonic booms in those days too.
It is an eerie sound. They updated them to Tornado Warnings and those would go off all the time even though the tornado was 20 miles away. So, people learned to ignore them.
They have been replaced with a huge speaker system and someone can actually talk over them.
I remember the first time I heard that. God? Is that YOU?

Moving to Western NY in 1988, I wondered why they didn't have Tornado Sirens. (Because they don't get tornados.)
Then as I was watching a YouTube video about horses in the Netherlands, their Sirens went off during a monthly test.
Are there still counties in NY that have sirens? Just wondering.

In my home town they would buzz the siren every day at 6pm. Maybe that is a different siren though...

 

[Saltwater60]

In my home town they would buzz the siren every day at 6pm. Maybe that is a different siren though...

We had one that went of daily at 9pm for the longest time. It was shutdown about 10 years ago or so. People used to say we were a racist town and that was the warning bell for all the blacks to leave. I don’t really think that was true or at least not for anything in the recent future. It was nice as a kid to know hey I have to start heading for home or time to stop playing football and head in.

 

[Michael]

There are some in my area (Oswego County) for the nuclear plant. I think there are some for weather as well. The city of Oswego also has sirens for those fishing in the river to warn them that flood gates have opened upstream and that there can/will be a sudden rise in water level.

 

[diggs223]

around here sirens for Ginna nuc plant, havent heard a test in a long time though

 

[spat]

Being a transplant from Missouri, I grew up with Air Raid Sirens.
They would test them on the First Monday of Every Month at 11:00 AM. And that was a time in the 50's to do the duck and cover drill. PS We still got sonic booms in those days too.
It is an eerie sound. They updated them to Tornado Warnings and those would go off all the time even though the tornado was 20 miles away. So, people learned to ignore them.
They have been replaced with a huge speaker system and someone can actually talk over them.
I remember the first time I heard that. God? Is that YOU?

Moving to Western NY in 1988, I wondered why they didn't have Tornado Sirens. (Because they don't get tornados.)
Then as I was watching a YouTube video about horses in the Netherlands, their Sirens went off during a monthly test.
Are there still counties in NY that have sirens? Just wondering.

Geneseo has fire sirens that go off when the volunteers are called for a fire. They test them weekly.

 

[Catskillkid]

My town has a 12 o'clock whistle every day. The local Fire Departments turn on the siren at noon for a few seconds. A few other towns I know do something similar, some even do it at 6:30. I always thought that was just a small town thing (running the sirens when the clock is all upright, at noon, or all downward, at 6:30).

 

[WillyK]

Geneseo has fire sirens that go off when the volunteers are called for a fire. They test them weekly.

My home town ran theirs at noon every weekday. I really appreciated that when I worked third shift...

 

[JaguarJaguarGolf]

We had air raid sirens in Manhattan when I was young, late 50’s into early 60’s

 

[ManualF150]

It's funny you all mention this... someone asked me this same question yesterday. Had to ponder it, but told them I would research it.

I know a lot of Civil Defense stuff went to the wayside with our wonderful Dept. of Homeland Sekurity.

 

[FP1201]

AFAIK all the Volunteer FD's in Jefferson County have them and they are activated in a programmed cycle (5) 10 second blasts every time the Fire Department is called out/activated, and daily at 12:00 a short wail.
When we moved here, we had a nice little apartment right across the Street from the Fire Department....we'd been there a couple nights, and that f'ng thing went off about 1:00 ap and I all but shit myself....after a month or two you just get used to it. There's a Department 3 miles away and another about six and I can hear them and know which one by the blasts.

 

[JohnD13]

We had them in Albany in the 50's and early 60's. There's warning sirens in areas of Schoharie County too, for when the Schoharie Creek floods.

 

[ArmedCorgi]

I love the original CD logo. I want to get it engraved on a lower some day.

 

[JaguarJaguarGolf]

I used to work as a rigger for a famous art moving company. Put lots of crated artwork into “cellar” in huge estates. Saw plenty of drums with that CD symbol in private buildings

 

[Acer-m14]

if you want to have fun .. DIY one ..

 

[Acer-m14]

back in the day the Civil Defense sent this out to the all Fire Departments ..

when i was a fireman and we were cleaning out the jamboree pavilion .. i found this and i still have it ..

i sent the manual to the war museum in Bath NY . they had the same light but no official manual ..

only thing I'm lacking is the orig light bulb .. its over 600 buck last i checked .,.

 

[dsdmmat]

The small town that I lived in the northern New York Had a siren for the volunteer fireman.

 

[Bob]

My FD has a siren that they blow when we get a fire call. It's not activated for medical calls or for public service calls unless specifically requested.

Once upon a time, I worked in a facility that was two doors up from the fire station in another jurisdiction. We had people from all over the country in for training during at the end of summer. FD gets a call in the middle of the day and you can hear the siren wailing above us. One of the participants in the class gets visibly shaken, pulls me aside, and asks "do we need to take cover now?" I had to explain to her that we were two doors up form the firehouse and that was how they alerted their volunteers for a call.

 

[BerettaGuy]

I know that Volunteer Firemen have sirens, but based on Mr. Putin, will they then double as a "Do not look at the big bright flash" or "Bend over grab your ankles and kiss your arse goodbye warning"?

 

[Bob]

I know that Volunteer Firemen have sirens, but based on Mr. Putin, will they then double as a "Do not look at the big bright flash" or "Bend over grab your ankles and kiss your arse goodbye warning"?

Not in my community.
People in my community are conditioned to equate that siren with the FD and nothing more. Mass notification now takes place (for good or for bad) through technology. Nearly everybody carries a mass notification receiver with them at all times. The technology has the ability to make mass notification more efficient. But it's also has more potential for failure.

 

[pshift]

The sirens were decommissioned due to the EPA findings that the decibel levels interrupted the migratory patterns of the "Indiana Fruit Bat', and other endangered species. There. You have it.. From a #ccredible #source.

 

[BerettaGuy]

The sirens were decommissioned due to the EPA findings that the decibel levels interrupted the migratory patterns of the "Indiana Fruit Bat', and other endangered species. There. You have it.. From a #ccredible #source.

I kind of figured there was some progressive lofty intellectual reasoning behind the dismantling of the system.

 

[Truebeliever]

The small town that I lived in the northern New York Had a siren for the volunteer fireman.

Yep that’s how it was where I lived. It was for the Vollys.

 

[BerettaGuy]

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