[EAS] The California Fires - Another view

[Bill Ruck]

I can hear the San Francisco sirens every Tuesday at noon.  Indoors 
at home and indoors in a modern office.

But then former KFOG DJ Dave Morey intones "This is only a test" 
which much of the time is unintelligible.  In some areas that is 
followed by a woman's voice in one of the Chinese versions.

At my place in the Santa Cruz mountains, Lompico, the Zayante Fire 
Protection District has a small engine stationed at Fire Station No. 
2 at the bottom of the canyon with a fire siren.  That's a volunteer 
department and the siren has been there for eons, long before pagers.

YMMV

Bill Ruck
San Francisco

At 01:15 PM 10/25/2017, you wrote:
>The cool aid they always try to serve up to me is that the sirens 
>are intended for folks who are outdoors.
>Working, playing outdoors and not near a radio or TV.
>They were never intended to warn people who were indoors. YMMV.
>
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>Dave Kline
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>On Oct 25, 2017, at 2:32 PM, Botterell, Arthur at CalOES wrote:
>
> >Yep, sirens went out of vogue in the mid-70s... not altogether 
> coincidentally because after oil prices rose people started 
> insulating new houses more, which made it harder to hear outdoor 
> sirens indoors.