its good

The thing he’s not thinking about, is that most firefighters are very influential people. They have the respect of many people in the community, the same ones that VOTE. The councilman should keep that in the back of his mind.

The siren tells people that the call has been received. It does not guarantee that anyone will respond or how many will respond.

@@stephenhanneken3041​​⁠Yes that is true. My Dad’s old station has that problem. The whistle will blow twice and no one shows up. But I believe most of the time in this town's case that the Volunteers do show up. Like the Chief said in the video, one of his Volunteers was eating breakfast just 2 blocks away, pager never went off, but he heard the whistle and showed up.

Word up. And higher mounted for more coverage

And add more of the upgraded version. Because L to these selfish idiots

Fire departments have their opinions, but they never let their bias prevent them from helping, that's what makes them so cool, they will always be there to help, no matter how you feel about them.

@@TimeWisely some do so u dont have any idea what you are talking about

@@wolfpacva ... wow, okay, you're quite a rude one aren't you? maybe you should look in the mirror going forward.

Lets see. Langhorne is located in southern Bucks county near Levittown, and is a northern suburb of Philly and adjacent to Trenton, NJ. There are 99 companies in Bucks county, of which most are probably fully or at least partially volunteer. From what I can find, the average number of runs for most surrounding departments is about 400 to 500 runs in a year. At 450 runs divided by 12 months rounded up, that's 38 calls a month on average. Depending on what the county SOP is regarding siren activation and if the department assists the township EMS squad with calls they may or may not sound the siren for EMS runs. If they do, that's 38 times a month that siren goes off on average. Thats about 1 to 3 times a day if calls are consistent, but since they never are you'd probably see a day with no calls followed by a day with 4 or 5. So, they are fairly busy but not nearly enough to were the siren is annoying. But I'm biased after all, I'm a fireman and a volunteer.

Nah worse, they want to get Eurotrash sirens in places like NYC, because they are "quieter and cause residents less stress." Yeah, they also can't be heard until they are on top of you and are obnoxious sounding.

​@@Stargazzer811ATI sirens also fail constantly they are the shittiest siren company in the world

you know the complaints were from boomer NIMBYS

New generation? Everyone complaining is a boomer or older.

How true. Very fragile.

Like the ones who move next to an airport, then complain

​@@24YOAthe complaints are coming from democrats

Maybe

I'd imagine not. If that's the case then firefighters would be responding to the station for severe weather but no emergency.

@@jonathan248 - The city will have 2 different ways to blow the siren - one is the siren blowing a steady tone - the 2nd is to have the siren tone repeatedly rise and fall. One is to summon the volunteer firefighters & the other is for warning of an emergency such as a tornado or enemy attack.

@@Petemonster62 That would make sense, but wouldn't it be difficult to educate the public on all of these variations?

@@jonathan248 The community could put it on paper, make copies for the local schools for the students to take home & share with their parents. The local newspaper, radio stations, cable access TV would also help inform the town's citizens about the siren warning codes.

Fuck no the volunteers that are in pager dead zones won't be able to hear an electronic siren they only cover a quarter mile area

What's next- No sirens on Fire Equipment.😊

Not only that, but if you’re the one calling for help from the FD, when you hear that fire siren, it signals to you that help is on the way. It gives you a sense of comfort and relief, and helps you remain calm. It’s true.

@@Keaton0801 Much in the same way mechanical sirens do. I'm biased, being that I'm in the fire service, but I do love me some Q2B.

That's all well and fine for in the cities with good coverage. But when you're in a rural area with spotty cell service (still exists in 2023) the fire whistle still wins.

It's high time that those communities bring back the fire station sirens!!!!!

Philadelphia county hasn’t had a volunteer fire company in it since 1871

Actually Goshen fire company uses a siren

Airhorn

It doesn’t randomly go off for minor incidents so your concern is unwarranted. Only major accidents or fires requiring a large volunteer turnout.

Sirens are and will always be an effective back up system.

Clearly you didn't watch the full segment lol

The Chief said a FF was at a luncheonette having breakfast just a few blocks away from the Fire Hall, his pager did NOT go off but he heard the fire whistle. He was the only driver that showed up.

@@FBHSswimmer2006 Exactly. There have been plenty of times where our pager network is down as well. We don't use our siren for fires, but I wouldn't be against changing that.

@@Tigers9596 Maybe you should bring it up. And if people get upset about the thought of it going off in the middle of the night, have it on a timer that prevents it from going off say midnight through 5 am. But still have an override if you know a pager outage is occurring.