I wonder what mashed bird would taste like lol

@@Anzac1 lead paint and pieces of rust lol

Or a squirrel

@@laaeeh Squirrel yogurt

South Georgia Sirens LOL

Strange. I thought SHTT’s were 10/12 while AT’s were 9/12 like the ones shown here.

@@MasenMonster it's the other way around

@@natestrains1166 Proof? I need a manual or something for proof

@@MasenMonster I believe Edaan Friedman has seen the tags on these. You also have to remember that these were made before Federal changed their nomenclature. The later models use the new nomenclature.

Orange County doesn’t really have sirens because SONGS siren system was removed in July of 2019 because SONGS was decommissioned. Most of them were north of the nuclear generating station. There were 17 in Camp Pendleton. The only sirens you may find are old ones or laguna beach or Newport Beach. The San Onofre sirens that use to be part of the NPP or NGS (Nuclear generating station) are gone except some on Camp Pendleton and the Thunderbolt 1003 on the reactor building.

@@thatkidfromsmartsville2012 I meant northwestern orange county. Huntington Beach has a siren system as well as a few other cities in that area, excluding south/southeast LA County. Beverly hills is getting a siren system though.

@@ThisHandleIsNotTaken. True! There Is No Updates Of The System In Beverly Hills Though... But I Hope It Comes True!

@@ThisHandleIsNotTaken. the Vinvale Terminal one had a video a while back of it sounding but idk where to find it again

@@theray2009 oh yeah I uploaded some found across the internet

6:22 yes definitely look very close in the 5, it has 2 sets of ports in a chopper which means it’s a 5T

Nice

You might be right. I was five hours in at the end of a 9 mile walk so had siren on the brain. I'll check the footage out because I don't recall seeing a signal light on the street, but it's not beyond doubt that I overlooked it. Either way, I like that to 'could' also mean the siren. Thanks for the info.

@@DayTrippingAdventurer Oh, c'mon Doug! The sign was on the cross bar holding two traffic signals flanking the sign! 🤓 In all seriousness, I wished more departments put those up. Displays continuous green until the firehouse gets a callout, then it turns red. When I was a volunteer, I was amazed at the number of drivers who considered fire equipment as "annoyances" and didn't bother yielding. Those signals gives the apparatus a fighting chance in getting out of the firehouse!

@@tommanion5504 You'd think every firehouse or fire station along a busy street would have a fire signal! In my hometown (Dayton, Ohio), many of the older fire stations along the busier roads have flashing yellow lights that turn red whenever a firetruck runs over the concrete that leads onto the main road. There's a trigger buried underneath the concrete that can only be triggered by the weight of one of the trucks which sets off the signal.

Just wanted to correct: it's 50 Hz for Europe and 60 Hz for North America 😉

@@imaginox9 thanks for clarifying! And it’s corrected!😊

@@hobbeekid No problem 🙂

The B&N looked to be in bad shape. I know are efforts to refurbish sirens around the country, just not sure if there's any real effort going on in Los Angeles at the moment. I think both the T22 sirens I saw were 2T22 because I don't recall seeing any selonoid boxes on it. Thank you for the additional info!

The only B&M 15-AR-5 is in Sierra Madre, the one he found was a 20-AR-7

I actually just used one of your comments in the video I recorded today about the Model 3Ls. I do have to remember the letters when I talk about the sirens. 7T, 500 SH-TT, 3L etc. Always grateful for your info, thank you!

@@DayTrippingAdventurer no problem

Its a 7T. From what I've learned, there are no 5s in Los Angeles. Even the ones that are cut down are Model 7s.

@@DayTrippingAdventurer Oh! Wow! I didn't know that! That's cool!

and there are short-housing ones called model 3s

@@therailcat9790 correct, however, to our knowledge, LA never purchased any model 3s. I have a few of those cut down ones here in Ogden UT, and have taken pictures of their tags, and their model 5TTs.

@@Sirens1003 I never heard about model 5TTs. Is there a difference between those and model 5Ts?

@@therailcat9790 they seem to be shorter. We call them 3Ts here, because that’s what they look like. Until we got a tag pic, we thought they were 3Ts. I can post some pictures when I get around my computer on the community tab on my channel if you’re interested.

@@Sirens1003 I’ve seen a 3T at WSS

I've located several 1000s just east of the city, but I'm not able to track down any 2000. Will keep looking for you.

@@DayTrippingAdventurer Do you happen to know where those 1000s are? West Covina?

From the map I have one looks to be across the wash from the Sees Candies store on Hudson Ln & W Cameron Ave. The other looks to by on S Citrus just south of where it crosses the wash, across the street from the Christ Lutheran Church. Hope that helps.

@@DayTrippingAdventurer Ah ok. Those Thunderbolts look to be a part of the West Covina CD System. There was a thunderbolt at E Garvey Ave S and S Lark Ellen Ave. There are also 2 SD-10s at the West Covina Fire Station 3 and one at E Merced Valley somewhat next to the Shepherd of The Valley Lutheren Church. There are a couple more thunderbolt littered throughout Southern California, being Buena Park, Hawthorne and Monrovia. I have a video of one of 2 thunderbolt in Palm Springs on my other channel which you can get pretty close up to. Cheers!

nope it’s a model 5 somebody climbed one

9:09 THATS A B&M Model 15-AR-5! EXTREMELY RARE!!!

I know very little of these things other than the info others give me, so thank you for the correction!

@@nancylucas7815 20-AR-7, bigger and more powerful version of the 15-AR-5

From what I've read and learned, sirens were the main form of alert from WWII through the Cold War into the 80s. By the 90s sirens were no longer used for Civil Defense. Mostly because we had cell phones and pagers on nearly every person and the ability to detect and relay foreign launch information had gotten to the point where we'd have ample warning. And anything that got close enough to launch right off the coast would be too close for a warning to do much good. Where sirens are in use now is for regional emergencies like fires, tornadoes, and tsunamis. So there's only a few left active in the Los Angeles area where I'm walking. One of which is on Catalina Island, which makes sense as a tsunami warning system. Thanks for the comment!

The FS 500 sirens (all versions) are known for their rotating mechanism (which uses a belt) to become loose overtime and so the siren rotates when it's not activated because of the wind blowing on it. So if the siren wasn't sounding but rotating from left to right that's maybe why. If the siren was doing full 360° circles without sounding then it was maybe either a test of the rotator or it was supposed to sound and the siren was broken but not the rotator.

It is a Model 3, Fedelcode Model 3L

@@imaginox9 Thanks for the clarification!

@@jackgaming0592 No problem !

The system actually lasted until the late 80s, but yes, the system is no longer in use. (unless you count that one time Disney Hall used some downtown for their War of the Worlds performance)

Yeah, i eventually learned that its a 500 TT-SH Two tone - single horn (if I got that correct)

@@DayTrippingAdventurer yes you did

Thanks for that. I walk around and see all these sirens and am always interested on how they would sound. One day I may even get to hear some in person so I can appreciate their volume.

The last time these sirens were tested was in 1986 (if memory serves me well)

Wow! That’s crazy. Good thing these things are still sitting here then!

I believe the city felt it would be too expensive to remove them. So, we get these pieces of Cold War history to see and appreciate.

Yea! I agree at least we get to see the rarities of this stuff who knows how long they could be here before removal

I may have been confused. But I'll get there.... eventually. I'm sort of making a sweep out from downtown LA and I think that siren is further out.

The 2 remaining Mobil Directo sirens are in Culver City, one is gas powered and on top of a museum (visible from the parking lot), the other is an electric version and is on a pole

They are, but in Los Angeles County they are rare compared to all of the Cold War and WWII civil defense sirens that are still around.

I honestly don't know. Many people tell me that these sirens are bomb proof. Clean em, hit em with a little WD40, and they're spin up, however not sure if that particular one is still in use.