Sat Nov 21, 2009 4:24 pm
Usually they test sirens - and the remote activation system - during military manoeuvres (Parmenion and Alexandros) every two or three years, but not in the whole country. Some cities decide to test now and then their own sirens. Anyway, it's complicated ...
The sirens are mainly intended to warn in an assumed war condition, air raids, etc. Let's say they 're useless somehow, but this was always the country's defense dogma, because of our eastern neighbours.
It seems fire calls are something completely useless in Greece, since Fire Services are organised by the state, and we have no volunteer fire departments. (However there are volunteer firemen organisations mainly aimed to forest fires)
I read about it in the net 12 hours later (...) So, another lost opportunity to make a video. 
