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San Onofre, CA nuclear plant siren mis-activated
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 3:29 pm
by kx250rider
Of all the lousy timing for an accidental siren sounding to scare people... One or more of the sirens at the San Onofre Nuclear Plant started up at 4:30 AM, and wailed for about an hour, according to witnesses. The timing was awful, as parts of the CA coast were under dangerous weather warnings, including a tornado-like thing that killed a 21-year-old man in bed in Ventura County earlier in the day. So with the wild weather, some people were panicking and looking for a tornado when the siren sounded. The wind at our place was incredible. It blew iron patio furniture all over the place, and ripped a whole course of roofing off a fairly new porch.
Link to KTLA TV news story:
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-s ... 4745.story
Charles
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:05 am
by EWS Rules
What type of siren do they have?
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 10:40 am
by Justin
Whelen Omnis of some description. I've taken one or two shots passing by a few on the way to Tijuana. That's what they had out near Camp Pendleton and that nuclear facility.
:: Edit ::
Same place.
Now my geography skills are working...
:: Edit 2 ::
Horrible photos but you get the idea. Standard Omni install, really...
WPS-2810
WPS-2805?
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:55 pm
by EWS Rules
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 6:04 pm
by bwillcox
Those are the old Toshiba sirens which were retired from the SONGS system in favor of Whelen WPS2810s and 2805s.
Re: San Onofre, CA nuclear plant siren mis-activated
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2017 4:33 pm
by Duderocks5539
Bump. The link doesn't work.
Re: San Onofre, CA nuclear plant siren mis-activated
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2017 4:46 pm
by uncommonsense
Duderocks5539 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2017 4:33 pm
The link doesn't work ,could you fix it? ,BTW is the link this?
Maybe the link doesn't work because it's a seven year old post that you bumped...
Re: San Onofre, CA nuclear plant siren mis-activated
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2017 4:48 pm
by Duderocks5539
uncommonsense wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2017 4:46 pm
Duderocks5539 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2017 4:33 pm
The link doesn't work ,could you fix it? ,BTW is the link this?
Maybe the link doesn't work because it's a seven year old post that you bumped...
That's unfortunate ,what was the link anyway?
