Armed Forces Base Lost Sirens
Posted: Wed May 31, 2023 11:26 am
I was combing through old disaster footage from the 1970s all the way to 1999, when this clip caught my attention:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMe0VPQftsc&t=155s
One of the sirens is an overlayed sound, that generic 10-port siren you hear in just about everything. However, the other is actually in the video - Clearly a Federal Signal XT22 series siren. Considering what happened, there's little hope the siren in question survived, but it got me thinking: What were some old siren systems at other armed force camps that America was based out of? I know how modern systems tend to be set up: Lots of giant voice sirens like ATIs at NAS Corpus Christi and Modulators at Barksdale in Bossier City, but what did they replace?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMe0VPQftsc&t=155s
One of the sirens is an overlayed sound, that generic 10-port siren you hear in just about everything. However, the other is actually in the video - Clearly a Federal Signal XT22 series siren. Considering what happened, there's little hope the siren in question survived, but it got me thinking: What were some old siren systems at other armed force camps that America was based out of? I know how modern systems tend to be set up: Lots of giant voice sirens like ATIs at NAS Corpus Christi and Modulators at Barksdale in Bossier City, but what did they replace?