Sacramento residents: “i just want to go to sleep can someone turn that siren off” Siren enthusiasts: “OH MY GOD FINALLY WE GOT TO HEAR THE SCREAM MASTER OH MY GOD”

Even after all these years of sitting dormant that thing still sounds healthy! It is a testament to American engineering. I hope in the future these sirens can be put to use again and I hope this incident doesn’t bring the end of this sirens existence.

Finally we have a recording of one of those !! After 70 years !

Great moment for the siren community, we've finally heard what both a real Scream Master (in this incident) and a real rotating CLM (Canadian sirens, one was found still active for a small village's volunteer fire dept.) sound like

I hope this incident doesn't destroy it.

The Siren Was So Tired Of Being Quiet It Screamed The Stuff It Kept In For Years

I'd like to reinforce my point at the end. This incident goes to show that many of these sirens around Sacramento are still serviceable. With controller upgrades, these sirens could be reactivated into a cost efficient fully functional system to help warn against the ever evolving dangers of wildfires. I know of people who can do this type of work so it is possible, with the right people. Granted, some new sirens would ideally have to be added to fill coverage gaps and replace a few completely defective units, but it is FAR cheaper than a brand new system and I'd say it would be worth every penny.

That is just amazing how that thing booted right to life! After 20+ years of being dormant.

Finally! A real scream master siren recording!!!!!!! Its been a while since the last one go hotwired in long beach as some guy said! It happened around 12/31/04 I think

It is a 9 port it seems like. That’s actually cool to see that it is even capable of going off after being abandoned lol

well, we finally got to hear a scream master

We finally had a recording and sound for this siren! Great that it is now being reactivated. Edit: it is probably just a grid malfunction or hotwiring as what I found on Reddit where I got the link to this video as well as that big comment in this video.

In my opinion, this isn’t good to the general public, but is AMAZING for Siren Enthusiasts! Us siren enthusiasts have been wondering what this very rare make & model of siren actually sounded like! And now we know!

Finally a recording of it!!!!

It annoys me because most people walk past those not even knowing what they are or that they exist. There's some in Riverside, and Los Angeles.....they used to always had drills. They definitely need to start tests again.

It was so loud we went looking for it. It was crazy!

FINALLY a recording of this relic!! I hope they do reactivate the system as it still has a purpose and still works.

Oh hey, it's me again @ 1:28

I am a siren enthusiast and I know that there was an old thunderbolt in LA the model of the thunderbolt is a thunderbolt 2000. This is the last remaining gas powered thunderbolt in existence and you could still activate it manually even though they say it’s an active they just forget to unplug the manual box of it but thunderbolts are awesome if you look on the thunderbolt Sirens still in existence map there are thunderbolts scattered across America

I love all these comments from siren enthusiasts. Blare on, siren-heads.

This is nice

Only if it was dual tone

1:18 rare news moments

Are there any update

Turn on that siren, we used to have a tornado!

Sounds like it has a 9 port rotor.

A very old siren is loud woah

Ooh intresting what air raid siren was going off?

i hope they can be put back to use one day

Sounds healthy!

One more thing some of the sirens are privately owned so they're not controlled by the county they're usually controlled locally by the owner of the siren these Sirens can still save lives especially if you're outside and you're unaware of a danger the sirens I know mainly are the Whalen Federal Signal Sterling ACA Screamers Denver duplex are most commonly used as general emergency some of the sirens that I know are being used as jailbreak sirens

A scream master is only one rare

Did they ever found out why it was activated?

I didn't hear no sound last night 😅

These sirens should also be used for like tsunamis since Sacramento is on the Pacific as well as wild fires and rare tornadoes for the state

EVRAZ since 2007 sounds of a Cold War

These systems are still active because they're more reliable than TV and radio TV and radio do not alert you if you're outside only if you're inside this is an outdoor warning system this is so like when this sounds off you're supposed to go to your TV or your radio and get updates on the emergency situation they're still active then they need to be cleaned up in the tech that uses them needs to be updated

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Intersecting

I actually have an air raid siren

when the time come the old protocole of the past will become new again forging a way of remembrance inside the population making sur that even in there long long sleep they can save the people when they reawoken

I'm more shocked that there are 'siren enthusiasts.'

Sacto is still a target

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People really acting like this ain't about the situation brewing in the South China sea? Wake up California.

Who in the world would want to be a siren enthusiast?

Siren enthusiast 😂