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Sarnia, Ontario Siren Test Videos?
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2014 7:33 pm
by ECwindsor
I have been wondering if any Canadian (or even American) siren enthusiasts have ever traveled to Sarnia, Ontario and recorded a video of the siren test. The siren test is on Monday at 12:30PM. The town is filled with ATI-HPSS 32's, Modulators and there is apparently 1 Thunderbolt. I would love to see everyone's videos of these siren tests (or maybe actual emergencies).
Thank you for sharing your videos! Here is my personal video! (Skip to 1:13 for initial sirens)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfXGqpNPv08
Re: Sarnia, Ontario Siren Test Videos?
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2014 8:33 pm
by Mark N
I remember that there was a video posted awhile back featuring their old system of Allertronics and CLMs. Didn't know they had a thunderbolt; any info on it?
Re: Sarnia, Ontario Siren Test Videos?
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2014 9:08 pm
by ECwindsor
Mark N wrote:I remember that there was a video posted awhile back featuring their old system of Allertronics and CLMs. Didn't know they had a thunderbolt; any info on it?
Yep they have a thunderbolt! It does the hi-low tone for alerts apparently! It is visible in the Aamjiwnaang Cemetery (aboriginal cemetery for a local aboriginal settlement that unfortunately got these factories built right next to them during the 80s I believe).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tc6oXNcjxc
Re: Sarnia, Ontario Siren Test Videos?
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2014 9:27 pm
by Brendan W
I remember a while back there was a video of a Sarnia siren test from sometime in the 1990's I believe.
Re: Sarnia, Ontario Siren Test Videos?
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2014 10:47 pm
by SirenMadness
Last time I've been to Sarnia to hear their system was in July of '07, back when they still had their system of 1212s counting their final few years but functioning nevertheless. The Thunderbolt is audible from the railway station; as I remember, it'd go off before the Modulator. The Allertronics were taken down sometime in 2012, I believe, after who knows how many long years of inactivity. I don't know, but pretty much every place in Southwestern Ontario nowadays seems bust as far as finding a diverse system of sirens south of Toronto is concerned.
Re: Sarnia, Ontario Siren Test Videos?
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2014 12:32 am
by Model2
There are three Thunderbolt 1003's at Suncor on the north side of Aamjiwnaang. They were still functional when I was down in August 2014. Most refineries now have ATI's with the exception Modulators at the refinery near the VIA Rail station. I haven't seen a 1212 or DSA in the area for 4-5 years. The city Allertronics replaced the Mobil-Directo's in the 1980s, but were decommissioned in 1997. The first 10 ATI's went up in 2002, with a third ATI added to Corunna in 2008 or so, in 2012 a dual-toned ATI replaced a lightning damaged unit on the south side of Corunna, and 5 new dual-toned ATI's were installed in Sarnia in mid-2014.
Re: Sarnia, Ontario Siren Test Videos?
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2014 12:52 am
by uncommonsense
You know, a simple YouTube search would answer your question
Re: Sarnia, Ontario Siren Test Videos?
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2014 1:02 am
by Mark N
Well, it seems that whoever had the only known recording of a dual toned Alertronic has deleted the video, as I cannot find it anywhere. IIRC it was an audio recording of the one on Scott road(?) and periodically, you could hear a Mobil-Directo. It sounded pretty much like any dual toned Federal or Whelen siren, but with a really soft wind up.
Re: Sarnia, Ontario Siren Test Videos?
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2014 5:16 am
by DJ2226
There was one out there of the Alertronics doing whoop as well. Sounded like an UltraVoice peaking at the same pitches as a dual toned Whelen esc-864 in that signal. Those Alertronics would wind up at full volume unlike ACA/ASC's later controllers running stock.
Re: Sarnia, Ontario Siren Test Videos?
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2014 2:05 pm
by Model2