[BC] DST for the rest of you City noon sirens

[Larry Wood]

In San Francisco the emergency sirens all sound every Tuesday at noon. Since 9-11 the city upgraded the system and added more sirens to fully cover the city. I can hear them at my transmitter on top of Mt. San Bruno south of San Francisco if I am outside, and at the studio in the Mission district, I can hear several ramp up and then down at slightly different times. I've never heard the PA announcement that goes with the test in the YouTube video below. I have seen startled faces on visitors to SF who don't know about the weekly test and wonder what's going on.

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

Cheers,

Larry Wood, CPBE
KQED-FM

-----Original Message-----
  From: Danny Ray Boyer

In Eldorado, Texas - the fire whistle still "blows" every day at 12 noon and has done that for at least the last 75 years or so.

For many years until she passed away, Ms. Wilson (who was crippled and stayed at home for years) answered the telephone 24 hours a day and sounded the Fire Whistle to call the Volunteer Firemen when there was a fire.  Schleicher County paid Ms. Wilson for her "duties".

She also sounded the "Fire Whistle" every day at noon.

To this day, the citizens all stop what they are doing and go to lunch at the sound of the "Fire Whistle" at noon.  Now, the Fire Whistle is controlled by the Sheriff Department.

Danny Ray Boyer