SpringHill KS siren recording...

[md5]

Today the Johnson County EM sounded all the sirens in attack mode since it was raining out here and there. Went down to Springhill to record this unknown siren. It failed, you can hear the 2001's in the background... four to be exact. The humming is the power obviously trying to feed into the siren, which appears to have a jammed motor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXItpJTV80o

Oh well, really wanted to hear this siren roar.

[red04stanggt]

Today the Johnson County EM sounded all the sirens in attack mode since it was raining out here and there. Went down to Springhill to record this unknown siren. It failed, you can hear the 2001's in the background... four to be exact. The humming is the power obviously trying to feed into the siren, which appears to have a jammed motor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXItpJTV80o

Oh well, really wanted to hear this siren roar.

Man that sucks. I was up at cosco at 95th and I-35 going in to get some stuff right at 11. I was walking inside and I never expected to hear the sirens test. It really suprised me. It was quite cloudy out looked like it could storm anytime and some nice low hanging clouds just to the east.

[md5]

Today the Johnson County EM sounded all the sirens in attack mode since it was raining out here and there. Went down to Springhill to record this unknown siren. It failed, you can hear the 2001's in the background... four to be exact. The humming is the power obviously trying to feed into the siren, which appears to have a jammed motor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXItpJTV80o

Oh well, really wanted to hear this siren roar.

Man that sucks. I was up at cosco at 95th and I-35 going in to get some stuff right at 11. I was walking inside and I never expected to hear the sirens test. It really suprised me. It was quite cloudy out looked like it could storm anytime and some nice low hanging clouds just to the east.

Yeah, they just sounded the attack signal rather alert hence the clouds.

[JasonC]

Man, that thing is jammed! Even though it didn't sound, it's still a cool recording! Looks like a 1930's Federal Fire Siren.

[ver tum]

Well, at least the timers are working properly. It's a good thing they didn't sound the sirens in Alert. The motor could have exploded in that thing.

[kswx29]

I hope you emailed JOCO EM about that!
Nice video otherwise.

[md5]

I hope you emailed JOCO EM about that!
Nice video otherwise.

I did actually, linked them to the video uploaded too. Said each sirens are maintained by the towns through out the county so spring Hill PD got note of it.

(If they don't want it anymore, I'd like to have that)

Well, at least the timers are working properly. It's a good thing they didn't sound the sirens in Alert. The motor could have exploded in that thing.

After the siren powered down fully, I walked over at the end to feel the power cable feeding the siren from the control box and boy was it hot.

[Daniel]

Isn't it a Mars siren?

[md5]

Isn't it a Mars siren?

Could you elaborate a bit more about this? I've no idea what a mars siren evenly is, and so forth. Talking like sounds, when it was used/manufactured and so forth.

[Rheems1]

Mars made their own fire sirens for a short period of time... they are more know for their warning lights (like my beloved Mars 888) but did their own version of the Federal Q and dabbled in house sirens for awhile.... their sirens look a lot like the one in this video although it is hard to tell them apart from the coded Federal siren and the Sterling Giant and the Federal Fire Siren. There aren't a whole lot of Mars fire sirens around... so if it is a Mars... it is a neat find.

Dave Fritz