8 years later (present day 2013) i saw a pole with an antenna and siretone cabinet about 1/8 of a mile from its original location. i look up in hope and what do i see? ANOTHER 2001! so that was heartbreaking. i will admit i will miss that siren. a siren like that is on hines drive in westland. i will never forget the whoop and hi-lo. long live whelen!

This siren was distinct, very loud, and you always could hear it and knew what it meant. The new ones they have now are hard to hear and sound like Dearborn's EMS vehicles half the time, so I don't react hardly the same.

Wow that’s loud! The whelens in my town are so quiet that you would need a hearing aid in order to hear it lol

there used to be a whelen at a school down the street from my grandma just like this except it was twice as tall. i remember peeking my head over the backyard fence and seeing the elementary school with that siren next to it. i was over there once and then i was like, 5 and the sirens did their whoop tone. i thought it was the coolest thing ever. i forget about the siren and a week later i look over the fence and it was gone. all that remains is the filled up hole that the pole rested in.

Dearborn actually use to have Thunderbolts back then. They were actually 1000s until the Whelen 2700s came in in the late 1980s.

When I worked at Oakwood Common we were in the middle of several of them, staggered on top of each other sounded so amazing, like Star Trek. Whoopwhoopwhoopwhoop.... whoophwhoopwhoopwhoop....

When the siren shut off at 3:22, it sounded it like it was going into attack mode

Ugh, 2001's are eating all of the cool sirens! D:

I am going to miss that good old siren too. I went there a couple days ago to take some pics of that.

Best whoop tone ever!!

I was told by the EMA director of Dearborn that the all Whelens are decommissioned. He also told me that he has been getting complaint calls from Dearborn residents saying that the new 2001s are not loud enough. Are you able to hear 2001s from your house?

Woke up to this siren sound this morning...very erie because i have not heard it in years and know these sirens dont exist anymore. Anyone els here it?

ooohhh, old controls.

The Dearborn whoop is a legend these days. As kids, they were so creepy. You can hear all the sirens throughout the city winding down at the end. Embarrassingly, I know where every siren is at. The Hi Lo that Dearborn did for snow emergencies was equally creepy.

This scared the hell out of my when I first watched this

Its got to do with the Sound Cards in the motherboard. These older Whelens had these common tones which is the factory setting. In the early 1990s, Whelen upgrated their sirens and lower the Hz level to 460 which carries the sound further. If you take a look at the video response, you can see that my Whelen 3016 does exactly the same thing cause this siren and my 3016 were both made by Whelen the same year.

I must admit 15 years ago in Michigan they would replace sirens to a 2001

I only like Whelens in Whoop or westminster chimes. I kind of miss Dearborn's whoop.

we have WHelens left in our countie and thunderbolts there all in good shape i dont want them to end up likethis one

@dearbornerik West Shore Services still has em there.

I'm confused. This is definitely the sound the Federal Signal Siratone 612 made in the infamous, long-lost "whoop" video; not the sound that a Whelen usually makes, especially in "whoop" mode - that can be heard in video # IkrcIlb0czs So... is this edited, or does this siren actually make the sound from another brand of siren? o_O

Sounds like a military base alarm.

What camera was this filmed on? This kinda also looks like there's just a filter applied to this video

@88mroux Those were Whelens too but I think those were coming from Inkster cause they have 4 Whelen 2800 Series and its the closest city to this location that would have 2800 Series.

It sound's like some siren entheuest's sceraty alarm (LOL!!!)

Sounds like the 3016's I grew up with

that pretty much scarde me omg it came from no where

that one is still there but sounds alert

I miss the "whoop" sound. Compared to the new whimpy siren, you could always here this in your house with the windows closed and the tv or radio turned on.

@parrthd1 Yes but the whelen got more signals than the 2001-103 and they need less maintenance because they got no rotator. but rotators are cool...

There is one whelen still in tact near Michigan avenue near Dearborn hills golf course

There's still a Whelen omni next to the Henry Ford Museum parking lot (As of two weeks ago, anyway). I neglected to pay attention to whether it was a 2700 or newer though.

@88mroux Inkster should still have their 2800s but I haven't checked to see if West Shore Service ether replaced their controllers or didn't even touched their Whelens.

Was this the last test of this one and the other whelens?

It's just kind of loud if I have my volume on low

where can i get one ?

Damn, we have a whelen in gillette Wyoming with a whoop tone.

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Why get 2001s when you could have Mods that do the same signals?

The Whelen sirens were replaced becuase the technology was not in congruence with Homeland Securitys new regulations. HS can actually take modular control of all the FS 2001s if need be. Its a part of a nationwide warning system, tho I think Federal has a kickback im sure. Whelen got the raw deal on this one.

I actually like some whelens bc of the design

To all of you still living in Dearborn, I pity you, and not just for the 2001's.

thats to bad i really liked this

I wish Waukesha had these in stead of shitty t-128s

*composite artifact continues*

@Droideka133 camera movement?

most of the sirens around here are whelens... they work all the time...

INCOMING!!!!!

Sorry, it's been a LONG time since I heard the EOWS version, like a year or more. Someone finally posted it and I now see I was way off, lol: Pu7sWCXGlvg

cool marcie

that's what the fire alarm sounds like at my school.

what is the purpose of the whoop (like the alert tone for a tornado, but a whoop for a what?)

R.i.p headphones

@F007Trace Annoying how?

@parrthd1 Just cause Federal made the Thunderbolt does not make the 2001 good. The 2001 is very high pitched which means that the sound it produces has poor structure penetration and does not carry as far as the lower pitched Whelens or ASC T-128 sirens. Not to mention that Whelen has more signals which means that firecalls or different emergencies could be easily differentiated. Airhorn is popular for firecalls while hi-lo is popular for nuclear emergencies. In short, 2001s suck.

@djkid9 how do you request a tone

Or am I wrong altogether and this is actually a normal Whelen sound? XD

Ohhh. Interesting! =3

@F007Trace Yeah.....definitely not deaf......

@crabsnpubes i ment the new ones. thank god i moved

Annoying Siren but Nice Video

I hate federal signal sirens, whelen all the way!! I love fin back whelen vortex r4's

at least there better than Whelens

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Bruh -_-

Fucking annoying! Sounds like an intruder alarm.

dearborn is cool but their sirens are horrible

well at lest a 2001 siren replaced a siren that was worst than it

it doesnt sound healthy

those fucking 2001s they suck and they're just electro mechanical they don't broadcast real warnings in voice like these do

2001s are better than whelens because FS made the thunderbolt and now they are making the 2001-130 so do not F*** the 2001-130. Thank you for reading this and do not cuss at me because I am only 10 years old and this is my dads account. -_-