Great story! Thanks for sharing 😊

@@vitaliyfdny8238 seriously took Me on a 40plus year journey into My childhood. Pops was My hero and one hell of a Man. Ty for posting. We never know how these things we post will work out,but after the pandemic year from hell,this was a great sidetrip into the memories of a old man remembering simpler times and happier moments. Be well Vitaliy!

@@seanham4040 Thank you for the amazing story!

That's a great story. Thanks for sharing . I bet you LOVED hittin that siren button. 🚨

@@cobrakai65 Grandpa made sure I knew..those men AND women were leaving warm beds,dinners,time w/their family,to go help someone they don't know in a moment of need. He made sure I knew they did it w/out money,and did it cause other people mattered. So when I hit that siren,I knew,these people cared,and I wanted to be like them

Exactly. We need more volunteers. But we also need to better incentivize people to get in. You got the people that wanna do it and the people that need to make it worth it a bit which is fair. Pay per diem. Pay a stipend. Offer even better tax cuts. But something.

One of my local Fire fighters was forced to pretty much respond on his own one day (Wasn't even a certified driver of the truck) it was a structure fire in the main street of town, he wasn't alone for long because about 15 minutes later another brigade arrived

The exception to that is if the station gets another call/needs additional resources. I've seen that happen before. Responded with my former company's engine on a structure fire. While we were en route, OIC upgraded to 2nd alarm; and our tanker was on that box.

well, it takes time for folks to drive over, park, get their gear on before responding

@@hueynapalmyeah. Something for sure. As well as a revamp of the people in the service if I’m to be honest. It’s not as welcoming in rural areas as folks would have you believe. Very clique-y, fit-in-or-get-out, a lot of cronyism and favoritism I’ve experienced having done it 14.5 years. There’s a reason I don’t anymore if I’m to be honest.

Thank you and yes the mack sounds very nice!

Could tell right away that they knew it wasn't going to be much of a call. No one was even hurrying as they arrived . Also people need to be more specific when they post video's. Upstate, NY. People 60 miles form NY City consider themselves in upstate NY.

@@trvman1 well you have the towns name so I don’t know what more specific you would want.

@@trvman1, that seems ridiculously unnecessary.

@@trvman1 60 miles from NYC is Newburgh area which is pretty fuckin far from nyc....

Thank you!

I love these old sirens too! This is simply nostalgia, because the most of fire cars are equiped with modern ones, here in the Czech republic...

Thank you very much! It’s a place near a very nice lodge place with no internet and a river right next to it called Buck Horn Lodge.

Thank you and I’ve been told it’s a carter siren.

@@vitaliyfdny8238 it's not a carter who ever said that was incorrect

I'm not familiar with Carrolton or their gear but when I get a chance I'll head over that way and see if I can catch a call or 2. Its nice to see the smaller departments rise to big challenges.

@@Stargazzer811 Funny that you commented on this, I was able to finally catch that old fire engine leaving the station. I followed them (not closely) to the call.

That is very cool, thanks for sharing!

We have a Peter built 3000 tanker

@@andypressley4702 Nice!

You know how to tell if someone is a firefighter? They'll always tell you....

@@timberslayer2187 if you're doing the best Thing in the world you just want to talk about it. 😉

Thank you 😊

Thank you and greetings from New York City!

Thank you!

I want to join but am autistic and have no athleticism never done any sports, but I can run 7.4 min mile, 40 pushups etc just worried on how athletic/coordinated one has to be to make it through training.

Thank you!!

That’s amazing thanks for sharing! Greetings from the United States 🤙

And to you from a retired firefighter stay safe

@@russellrouse1371 Thank You, brother! Greetings from Czech republic...

One thing we do know, no "Karens" live in that town or the siren would no longer be blowing. Town I lived in did away with them because the "Karens" complained about them.

You miss 30 minute response times? No thanks. My taxes are high but firemen and medics are paid well and get there fast.

@@roomdog40 And if you lived in a small town that could not afford their own paid fire department, you would appreciate the volunteers.

@@trvman1 Yep. That and clock towers that strike the hours too. Forget that the clock on that church steeple or courthouse has been doing it for 150 years. "Karen," who just moved into town, doesn't like hearing it (even with it only striking during the daytime).

Thank you very much!

Thanks man!

@@vitaliyfdny8238 you are welcome

Thank you!

Hi Amed I'll answer your question precisely and no bullshit.Firstly I'm in the UK born in 1961 in Lincoln Lincolnshire born and raised and still living between the 2 biggest RAF bases that were home of the beautiful delta winged VULCAN BOMBER aircraft ( essential viewing),the air attack siren giving the doomsday 4m imminent nuclear inbound missiles was regularly active and deathly scary....not knowing if Armageddon was only minutes away.Also the RAF would launch as many as 20 YES 20 plus of the VULCAN BOMBER aircraft day or night ( war doesn't discriminate 24/7 attacks) fully loaded with more nukes than required to wipe out massive sections of the then USSR and other hostile and nuclear equipped countries.The scrambled aircraft seemed never ending being launched and the deafening sound of their engines,the smell of aviation fuel and the awesome ground vibration was frightening and reassuring knowing they had a chance to wipe out hostile enemy countries but realising that their bases or countries may not exist if they managed to return home due to being totally anhiallalted and it doesn't get worse than that given a choice death would be the best outcome possible knowingly full well of suffering radiation related illnesses and a terribly slow painful death the only outcome of a global strike.I shall end my post now and let you research the rest to satisfy your curiosity and more but please reply when you can or if you choose to do so.....

Oh cool, thanks for sharing!

Upon further review, I may be wrong about Elgin, TX. It looks like an M-series. I'm just not sure what kind.

Thanks, hope you liked it!

Thanks for sharing!

Note, on call means paid a retainers and for time training and when working, my county's on call do a 32 day course at our training facility

@@stevenbowers4164 wow that’s very interesting! Thanks for sharing.

Yes my dad was on call retained at Dereham, Norfolk County, England. 1971-89. Used to have an old air raid siren on the drill tower and a telephone operated bell in the house. They would go off simultaneously by day but no siren at night. They were remotely operated by a radio signal from brigade HQ twenty miles away. We never got the bell because a few weeks after he joined Norfolk replaced the call out system with pagers made by Pye the size of a house brick. Devon were still using sirens in 1976. Today the pagers are smart phones where you can make yourself available, go off duty and see what the job is before you leave home. How times have changed.

Nice story, thanks for sharing!

Same!

Haha yup!

Thank you!

@@vitaliyfdny8238 You're Welcome!

Haha thank you for sharing.

@@vitaliyfdny8238 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oa1nqqxirLHXeKc.html around 3:25 . I remember this sound, we also had one in my old home town, before mobile phones became standard. And that tone was used for fire alerts and general warnings

@@vitaliyfdny8238 Side note: if you like videos with fire brigades: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l56bebxks8rPgGg.html - starting at 1:10. There was a flash flood in Germany, and the video shows volunteers driving to this area.

Very nice, how many apparatus?

We have in 1 fire station fire chief and to rescue pummper truck and 1 bush engge and 1 ladder truck and 1 water tanker and to bush truck and to rescue ambulance

Nice, and I got really lucky catching the siren on video.

Yup!

Thanks for the comment! Some other people in the comments said the same

Haha yea it sure is a beauty.

Like ummm why did they pull it out and leave it running? They must be really trusting of people. Maybe time to get a new one if they need to have it running like that.

MC cab?

@@anmlrsqnj Most people where I live don’t lock their door. Not every place has thieves running around all the time.

I was curious as to why they pulled the rescue out too if they weren't taking it on the call with them. I just thought it was pointless. Our department never does that.

Thanks and honestly I’m not sure, pretty sure it varies but this one if I remember correctly was about 3-4 minutes.

Thank you!

Good to know, thanks for sharing!

Thanks for sharing!

I think so, and in person it was pretty darn loud.

Haha thanks for sharing! These sirens are truly beautiful.

Not 100% sure why, but the firefighter who pulled the Mack out got a toolbox off the rig and went to the rig parked behind the rescue and started working on it

Rookie driver

@@mattteixeira2788 Rookie commenter Texarkana.

Nice! I think it’s similar at this department.

@@vitaliyfdny8238 it might be a call for a structure fire

@@Belchmaster41 Don’t think it was, the rigs were back quickly.

Yup, haha.

Given how dead the roads look and the fact everyone just had to endure that god awful siren……I think they will be ok

@@calreed5862 😂👍🚒

It depends on the call, for this one as soon as the dispatcher assigned the call to this department the siren went on, for other departments it could be a person at the station turning it on.

911 dispatch sets them off.

Around here, the sirens are activated by county dispatch (911) via radio. The pagers are set off the same way.

I’m pretty sure they have pagers as well, thank you for the comment.

@@vitaliyfdny8238 all of us in Delaware County NY have pagers too but some towns don’t have cell service but also rely on the siren if the pager goes dead or if we forget it at home

@@roxfire23 Thanks for letting me know! I forgot how bad the cell service is in some places haha.

@@vitaliyfdny8238 you’re welcome brother and yeah it’s pretty bad haha

Nice!

No, I’ve been told it’s a carter and is quite rare in the US.

It's a Sterling Model M siren

@@vitaliyfdny8238 indeed is Rare. Most are WWll era. However, I remember the tone being higher, perhaps it has a old motor.

It’s an 8 port Sterling, some are 16/16 or 8/16, so an 8 port is a lower tone. It’s an American siren.

@@Squad21Photography That would explain it. Its been a month or two since I have paid any attention to sirens, I’m a little rusty.

Thanks for sharing, and yea a lot of the people now a days don't like these even though they've been a tradition throughout the departments.

@@vitaliyfdny8238 i would have to agree now it just sucks cause we relie on pager radio's each station has a different page tones it's a real pain now but i do miss the sirens sounding just sucks people don't under stand the importance of them here our sirens only sounded from 7 am to 10 pm then they didn't but people still got there way now there silent sucks

@@andrewbaumgart5521 Yea these sirens are loud as heck, unless you're in deep sleep no way you missing one haha.

Thank you and I’ve been told their actually quite rare.

It’s a Sterling M-10, an American siren. They’re not that rare.

Not sure how busy this department is and it really depends on the area. And I’m not sure about Oneida county.

@@vitaliyfdny8238 all good! Thanks!

@@user-yx4vd8se5u you got it!

My town has pagers and the siren... the siren only goes off for fire calls and not medic so yes pretty sure all stations have pagers

Better to have both, never know when pagers will go down.

This is from East Branch New York. It’s near Downsville, Hancock Township, and Roscoe Rockville.

@@vitaliyfdny8238 wow.

Some sirens are on a 12cycle attack my department is the same way when our tones drop

Volunteer department also pretty sure it was nothing important and they were probably not first due department.

Not 100% sure but I'd say 2-3 minutes.

@@vitaliyfdny8238 Wow! This is very fast! In our department we need about 5 minutes

@@gewurzgurkenkaiser2575 I think it may be because most of the volunteers were nearby since there was going to be a parade in 20 or so minutes, but that’s just my guess. Thanks for the comment!

I agree, and I’m not too sure what the siren was, everyone has mixed opinions on which model it is in the comments haha

Looks like a Sterling M series

East Branch, Upstate New York

I just realized that 😂😂

No those were just the low clouds because 20 minutes after was a huge storm, and they were back too fast for it to be a fire.

Yup!

Thanks I agree!

Last I checked yes, however that was a while ago so they could’ve replaced it/sold it.

@@vitaliyfdny8238 Ok, trying to track it down for a prior department it served. Thanks

Haha enjoy

@@vitaliyfdny8238 👍🇺🇸😉

Not 100% sure, if I had to guess I’d guess a vehicle accident.