They need to reconnect and reactivate these sirens for earthquake and wildfire warnings

Back in the early 80s an underground vault in the city of Anaheim Ca got flooded from a big rainstorm and all their Thunderbolt sirens went off at 3am, it scared the crap out of a lot of people

Thank you for making this video! As a Long Beach native, I have also photo-documented and mapped all the sirens I am aware of in the Long Beach/San Pedro area. I was saddened by the loss of the SD-10 on Clark. A friend and I immediately after its removal tried to track it down in an effort to rescue it via the city, but we got lost in the bureaucracy. As time moves forward we should work to preserve these sirens as the city of Los Angeles has done with theirs. All LA City sirens are in the register of historical landmarks and cannot be removed. The one at the Recreation Park 18 Golf Course, which happens to be where I work, is in excellent condition! We have access to the control box as well.

such an eerie sound, i too am old enough to remember them. still gives me the willys just hearing them again on here. last i remember hearing them was a test of san onofres system

I lived in San Pedro and remember those going off on a Friday in the Month in the 1970's

Best sounding siren Ive heard so far and I have heard many on here, American and German.

I was 11 years old in 1969 and they had the sirens in Anaheim. They always went off while we were in class not outside and we would hide under our desks. After 1970 I never really heard those sirens again. They sounded really cool, like a useless science fiction scenario in the modern age.

Paused at 6:15 OMFG RIP MODEL 5

3:14 I thought the siren went off lol I got excited

I remember in the late 1960’s having a summer job near Anaheim St and Santa Fe Ave (west Long Beach) and it must have been a Chrysler siren. (It was a lower pitch single note sound). I was inside a building with a corrugated steel roof on wood framing and in addition to the siren sound I could hear (and feel) the building rattling like it was about to disintegrate. My ears were still still ringing and sore for the next hour or more.

The Federal SD-10 on Clark Ave. is gone now. It must have been pulled out in the last few weeks.

Awesome video and well put together!

Sometimes on trips to places I'd see some of the Scream Masters and some Model 5s aswell as some SD-10s. great vid

My home town of Port Alberni had a single long standing Canadian built CLM siren similar to the British Carter 10/12 twin rotor with a large front horn and air scoop shaped rear horn on a directional rotator originally installed in 1962 and was decommissioned at the end of the 80’s and removed sometime in the 90’s I was fascinated by it as a kid growing up but I never remembered it ever being powered up.

Angelino native here. We remember these well: thank you profusely for documenting a pivotal sound of our childhood in the 1960s, They were the unseen reminders of a nuclear world--this is my first glimpse of what compelled us to dive under our school desks, duck and cover! Never saw them in action, until this video.

Great video. Thank you for the history lesson! And the reminder!

My town has a model 5/7 that goes off daily except pn the weekends at noon and still sounds great

I worked for GTE in the 70’s and I worked on these. They were tested I believe the last Thursday of the every month. You did not want to stand below one because when it went off the Pigeon shit would go flying.

I find this to be very intriguing. I’ve always had an interest in sirens, but where I come from, in Milwaukee, they’re called tornado sirens. Milwaukee had a Civil Defense siren system with air raid sirens. A lot of the system was Biersach & Niedermeyer (B&N) Mobil-Directos’. If you’ve never seen one, they look like lob sided toilets. I believe most were gas powered by 25hp air cooled engines initially, but were converted to electric later on. Milwaukee slowly updated their CD system starting in the 70s and almost all of the Mobil Directos’ were phased out for new sirens (one still stands in the north side and sounds for monthly tests :) ). One of the most prominent replacement sirens was the ACA P-50 (ACA was a division of B&N, and later became ASC). It is a massive rotating siren that is one of the loudest in the world, and is only a few decibels shy of the Chrysler sirens. When the 90s began to roll in, the CD system, unlike LA and LB, was repurposed as a peacetime system for tornadoes and other emergencies (I.E. tornado sirens). The system continues to be maintained and updated here and there, with new peacetime sirens being added (such as the ASC T-128 in the video, and the Federal Signal 2001). It’s easy to tell the storm sirens from the CD sirens as only the CD sirens wear yellow paint. My point in this whole ramble is that it’s ultra intriguing to me that these systems is southern Cali were just... abandoned, disconnected, and left to rot where they stood. A testament of time that most don’t even notice. The most intriguing aspect is that the system was maintained, but never updated, all of the sirens in the system are original. I believe this is why it was abandoned by the municipalities, because they were in need of replacement soon and none had been replaced which was too costly, so the cities just abandoned them. There is a few examples of this in Milwaukee where a siren was no longer needed and was left there, but never on a scale of this size. The other aspect of this system that gives me Cold War vibes is that all of the pole mounted sirens have baskets on the pole to work on the sirens. The baskets on siren poles are nonexistent today, and you only see them on Cold War era air raid sirens like these ones. Thanks for the video. I recommend you take a look at the Mobil-Directo, and the P-50. Both are spectacular sirens.

I remember the the terrible sound. I was a kid and sound terrified me. Although I knew it was a practice, just the idea that it was a warning of a possible nuclear attack was terrifying for a little boy. It was all for nothing.

The sirens actually have been decommissioned in 1985. These were tied into LAs system ,so since LA decommissioned the sirens in 1985 ,these were as well.

Interesting. I grew up in Long Beach, but was unfortunately born a few years too late to get to experience the monthly tests of these going off. (Born in '95) I honestly had no idea that we even had sirens in Long Beach. It's a shame they were just left to rust and decay, I wish they had been preserved and kept up as historical landmarks. It's really sad to see them this way and says a lot about how little we care about preserving our history when things like this are left to rot and buildings are torn down without a second though about their historical value. I wish I could have seen them in person years ago when I lived in Ling Beach. Now I live in the Midwest and we do have siren tests monthly here, although I'm not sure if they are cold war era like these. (Wouldn't know where to look for them/that info.) I think I would've enjoyed hearing these go off as kid/teenager.

i used to live in the town of san jose california. they also have an air raid siren system. consisting of model 5's SD-10's and scream masters.

Although they are over 50 years old, they should be temporarily removed for restoration process and should be tested every month because these sirens will also be enough to warn people of wildfires, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, etc.

Great video! I went to see the one at 1:11 . That alley way is now closed off unfortunately

I used to live in Long Beach (grew up and once again live in Pico Rivera 20 miles away) and do remember spotting some of the sirens while driving here and there in LB. Being 56 years old I do vividly remember the sirens being tested from time to time. And if the sirens ever went off unscheduled, everybody in my elementary school had to “duck and cover” getting under our desk to “shield us” from the atomic blasts. That thankfully never came, but the sirens scared us all for life. I am strangely drawn to the sound though. There is something oddly soothing about them to me. Maybe that is why I absolutely love industrial, techno, rave, noisy as all hell music. I dunno? I recently had an MRI done and was really truly loving the noise! It was just like being at a rave. Errrrrrr Errrrrrr Errrrrrr!!! Clank Clank Clank!!! Music to my ears. I was bummed when the MRI was completed :-( Something else that has always stuck with me is from the original 1960 version of The Time Machine. How the air raid siren is used to lure the Eloi into the underground cavern via those huge futuristic buildings with alien faces on them. These big spiked horns protrude from the base of the structure and away the sirens go! Luring the Eloi through those alien faces. Absolutely blew my mind as a kid and I’m am certain is a reason I love brutalist artwork today. Because brutalist is basically a reflection of what happens after the bomb is dropped. Charred remains everywhere in dripping molten nothingness. That just reminded me. The 2nd Planet of The Apes movie where they go underground. Another mind blown moment with brutalist everywhere. The first Planet of the Apes too was huge! Anyway ... air raid sirens. I know a guy my age who cannot stand the sound. Then again he doesn’t like the same music as me either so ... there you go. That guy actually lives in LB still. And I’m sure he is glad they don’t test the things anymore :-) And I’m not sure I would welcome them either because they really do send shivers through you. Awesome video. Thanks :-)

I wish the Cold War sirens could be restored. They could be repurposed for tornados or other civil threats. Or a special collector’s siren that can be used for some other thing, seeing these rust away makes me sad.

if the siren is hotwired, you know how well they still work

Is this all that’s left in Long Beach? If not, is there a list of standing sirens in LB somewhere? This is cool!

I still remember these sirens going off well into the 80’s and I also remember the Queen Mary going off too.

Surreal Adventures, Just revisited some of these sirens yesterday. There old and sad and forgotten.

RIP sirens. You did your job

Thank you so much for sharing the locations! Now I can go look around and see if I can fidn them to see with my own eyes

update on the SD-10, after checking the california siren map and google street view on clark ave and conant st, i can confirm that this siren was removed, what remains is a patch of dirt, and thats it.

Gainesville, VA has a “scream master” still standing

San Francisco Has theirs up and still running as well. Every Tuesday at noon. Now I haven't live in SF since 2019 but I assume they are still going.

I'd be so tempted to knock one of those siren poles down and refurbish it 😂 Any way to get one of these for personal use?

They did their job they help us warn us scare us but theyre neve be gone for me it is realy sad see how they destroy it RIP sirens respect to it.

The one on Willow and Paulo’s Verdes Ive always seen and often would wonder what it was. Thanks.

Sirens are not only more reliable than phones, but they add more protection. Some people don't have phones, others have them on silent. Emergency Outdoor Warning Sirens save lives.

If they get removed, you should get them. If the city lets you.........

Update the SD10 at 3:55 is now removed

These are all over Las Angeles area. There's a site that has their locations and types. I don't know why people don't take them. They're just going to end up in a junk yard. If you live near one, go take and restore it. The city doesn't care because they can't afford to deal with them. Take them while you can. If I lived in that area, I'd be all over it. Replaced by a system that's destined to fail. Too much reliance on cellphone infrastructure. It's a freaking house of cards There needs to be layered systems, just like security systems.

You should make a follow up video for this

These sirens are near my house

The Scream Masters are made by R.J Zievers. Some siren enthusiasts found out.

Was the North long beach scream master activation incident made it on the news back in 2004? Is there any footage of its activation?

I like the t128 that went off

I love the sound wish I had one right next to my window

Appparently The Scream Master On Kildee Street Is somehow connected

seeing these beasty sirens in a bad condition rally breaks my heart

Camp Pendleton also uses sirens still

nooo! those poor sirens!

rip these sirens they shall be remembered

At 7:14 i found that siren its still there by today because i found it on my channel its a unknown model people say

Just almost brings tears to my eyes thinking how now the government is being to relian on technology

Replacing sirens with phones is a very stupid move, what if u went somewhere and left ur phone at home?

3:11 is there a recording of that one going off back then?

There is a motel 5 in my area that is still used today

5:13 whats the type of the siren I know its a air raid but It's like close to my house and it never sounded...pls tell me what type it is and what time it begins?

Wait have you ever heard a scream master? Like when it was tested?

Sadly. Sacramento also has sadly turned their sirens off.... For good....

Unfortunately, the sirens in the cities of San Juan Capistrano, Dana Point, and San Clemente are apart of the now decommissioned San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) community alert siren system. They haven’t been tested since October 2014, and have been deactivated this past June, and are now awaiting to be removed. Stupid of the cities with the sirens didn’t decide to just keep them active after SONGS decommissioned, and just use them for other emergencies like tsunamis and wildfires like Huntington and Newport Beach. Their system consists of 50 Whelen WPS 2810s and 2806s. They replaced unique custom engineered sirens designed by the plant called the Model 120, and Federal Signal STL-10Bs in November 2005. I’m sad to see all the SONGS sirens go since we have a timeshare down in Dana Point, and every year we go down to it, I would always see the sirens, and the old ones when I was really little. Their system is the one that got me into sirens In the first place, so seeing them go, is hard to deal with. I have a tribute video of SONGS’s system on my KZfaq channel of me going to 39 out of the 50 sirens, I could only go to 39 since 11 are on Camp Pendleton which is obviously restricted. But it’s a very stupid move of the cities to decide to remove them, instead of just taking over them from SONGS.

5:30 the auto generated subtitles 😂

I'm pretty sure they still go off during the 4th of July its like a long low wail?

clark one was removed,

I heard sirens go off on a regular basis growing up in Garden Grove, in Orange County. Does anyone know if OC had sirens farther inland? Or were we hearing coastal sirens that far inland?

the model 5 at 6:15 seen better days

*you live in LB? i still live here* i wanna tell you that the golf course near Granada apartments have a Model 5 next to the building

They should keep them in use for Tsunamis (like this weekend 1/15/22-1/16/2)2 or if/when the cell towers go down (I assume HB keeps it for tsunamis?)

Air Raid Sirens Can Put Att Desert City Att United States But They Are Rusty Old Abanded Broken Paint Rusty

Is that a scream master at 8:05

*i wish they used these for earthquakes*

Why don't they use the sirens to alert the people for earthquake at least,Here in Texas we have a lot of those sirens to alert everyone for tornados 🌪

Notice how they didn't have any in the areas where poverty is higher. it's like they didn't care about the lower class neighborhoods

hoping a tornado comes by and set off this siren

I swear I just heard one outside, I swear to god it was a siren.

Will they ever be activated one more time?

6:35

the 2nd siren isn't a scream master it's a soundmaster 115 Edit: every time he says scream master its soundmaster

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