Shame about that, I was hoping to get out to #19 one last time before it was gone. I was even supposed to go last month but had something come up last-minute. Interesting about your welcome at the EOC; I had tried talking to them last year or thereabouts and they wouldn't even give me the time of da...

That was the first siren I recorded and the first T-bolt I witnessed up close. Cool to see it's still up; I believe it's the last functioning Thunderbolt in Cobb County. The ones at the Austell Gov't Center and the Fire station at Hicks and Hurt are gone. I keep wanting to get back to it before it's...

I'm hoping to get a video of #19 again next month, from directly in front of the horn this time. I need to take a scouting trip down there since I live so close and see what it takes to get up there. I'd hate to think my crappy cell phone video I took when my main camera's batteries died that I have...

There's a couple options I can think of that may depend on how willing you are to DIY something. You could use an Arduino with a GSM shield such as http://www.hwkitchen.com/products/gsm-playground/ to accept a phone call, interpret DTMF, and then trip a relay. This ought to be pretty straightforward...