Ohio_Man wrote: ↑Tue Aug 18, 2020 3:36 am
I thought Washington DC had some whelen 2X01's around the Pentagon. When I went to the Pentagon 911 memorial for a scout trip to DC I saw at least 2. Were they taken down?
The answer is plausible. Of course they'd probably save a couple of bucks first by trying some BS text alert app.
But I do know Federal Signal had some trailer mounted modulators for that purpose, as well as for use as a temporary substitute or as a demo siren. one's on eBay.
I know most cities with papermills or other factories with whistles used those in place of sirens. In case of a fire in Lockland Ohio, the papermill's whistle would blast a location code and the firefighters would to that location (size of a couple blocks) and start looking for smoke.
Before Leslie controls moved to Florida, apparently they sounded the plants airwhistle (similar to a train horn) for snow days.
So if a siren less city was pushed for mass notification, I'd bet they'd try apps first, then whatever existing systems there are (factory whistles, fire dept sirens, church bells) and then sirens.
Now if internet & phones went down all bets are off. They'd have no choice but for sirens.
Of course they might spend some money for their citizens safety. After all NY,DC and LA are totally known for looking after their citizens.
Sarcasm aside it would probably take a terrorist attack, tornado or mass wildfire to get some sirens up.
It wasn't until after the 1974 super outbreak (The day of the killer tornados) that my area started taking public safety seriously. Looking at the damage those tornadoes did, we almost wished it were bombs.