In France, the alarm is tested the first Wednesday of the month at noon (when I was a kid we used to use it to check if our schools’ clocks were on time 😂).
So basically if you to invade most european countries, do it during the first week of the month, at noon...? 🤔 @@UserName92149 I think they've reduced it to being once per semester now because I hear it less often. But mostly I guess it's to be 100% sure it's working the way it should. And yeah I used to live right next to one of those, it is a liiiiiiiittle bit noisy. 😂
Netherlands is also a hearing test. We use multiple frequencies. Some will make vibrations that deaf people can notice. We also use push message on GSM network and others.
Similar with the phone thing in Norway. Introduced a couple years ago - the system will force a pop-up on every cell phone. AFAIK it will pop-up even without a SIM card - will work as long as the phone is powered on. They test this system every year at noon on a given date - along with the sirens.
Because it has multiple frequencies it cannot be confused with a distant train, boat or truck horn, and it carries very far. The smartphone alert is identical to the US one, and scares the hell out of you during lunch break in the office restaurant on the first monday of the month at noon! Everyone jumps up!
same here in Austria. We got a Textmessage and hear the Alarm all 3months on porpuse for Testing. Takes a whole Hour with 15min delay for Airraid, Atomicalert, Chemicalaler and the last on is for Alert is over In fact the Alert you hear in this Vid is the Airraid alert ^^ Sounds much more Powerfull in Reallife ;)
The US and other non-European ones are weird because it's clearly electronic. All the European ones are either analogue (literally someone spinning a handle and releasing briefly for the dip to let the spinning cylinder drop RPM for the downward oscillation) or are electronic recreations of that exact one. You can find the devices by looking up "Handkurbel Sirene" for example, though many rural fire stations and the like literally just have a standing one installed. Makes perfect sense since you want to be able to communicate there is an emergency particularly when power is cut ... due to an emergency.
It still imitates the sound of a non-electronic siren so the messaging to the people remains the same whether electronic means are available or not, at least. That's the main point, unlike the Finnish one, for example.
@@msytbFinnish was wrong. It's also a hand crank imitation nowadays. But we have some kind of speakers now as it also says provalarm in swedish. I haven't heard it in ten years while I was living in Helsinki center. Weird that Helsinki doesn't have working alarms and countryside does. I even complained that I haven't heard it in years and they didn't even respond to me.
Many of the European ones are recorded old WWII Air Raid sirens that were retained and used during the cold war, today as incoming ballistic missile warning. Mounted on towers at police and fire stations. Also used in UK and Ireland to call retained (part time) fire crews to duty as electronic cell/mobile phone communications not 100% reliable.
In the Netherlands the EAS gets tested on the first Monday of the month at Noon. if you happen to be in between cities (especially in a polder) you can hear them from multiple cities at once
The moment to watch the Big Brother livestream the first time it happens: when the Belgians get surprised. Because somehow, the contestants don't know, and haven't seen it.
The German one sounded like a very new siren. We also still have the very old air raid siren ones all over, especially the countryside. The continuous up and down is the EAS sinal and also means "turn on your radio / TV and wait for further information". 3 times 15s continuous tone is fire alarm alerting the voluntary firefighters to report to the fire station at once. 1 time 15s continuous is test alarm. Used to be done on the first saturday each month, but haven't heared in a while, so maybe they're not doing that any more... 1 min continuous is the all clear signal. They have been establishing alternative ways of warning the public by "KatWarn" , a system that sends a signal to all mobile phones in the region to set off an according alatm. Those systems are tested all together on nation wide "warning days". On that day at the specified time all hell breaks loose when all mobile phones, sirens alarms and whatever go off simultaneously! 😆
To be clear. National siren signals are only: 1 minute constant tone : All clear. 1 minute "howl" (constantly rising and falling) tone: Warning! Switch on Radio/TV/etc. and be prepared for further information. There are more local signals. The "fire signal" varies from 3x 12s with 2x12s pause to 3x 15s with 2x7s pause. For instance in bavaria the fire signal is the 12 variant and sirens are mostly tested every Saturday morning with the signal "Fire Alarm" ... Also KatWarn ist not the main Warning App. KatWarn is only an addition. The official warning app is "NiNA" provided by BBK (Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe / Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance).
With the first examples (like Austria) you hear at least two different alarms here: the solid tone is either pre-alarm (minimum 3 minutes) or the all-clear-alarm (1 minute). The actual alarm is the wailing tone (minimum 1 minute). The sirens are old style mechanical and could be activated even with a hand crank.
As a Ukrainian, many things are scary for me. But still, the ukrainian eas alarms one scares the most because she plays on the streets every day because of the war ( I'm sorry if I didn't write correctly, I used a translator)☺️
I find it crazy, but I caught myself on the thought I am not afraid of this alarm anymore. It's even became some kind of a sick and unnerving lullaby. I've got used to it so much, it is even strange to go to sleep without hearing it. The sound of explosions on the other hand... that is a bit more impactful, if I dare say so. Crazy times we live on...
Fun fact, idk about ALL European countries, but at least here in Portugal, especially in smaller towns, you hear those when the fire station received a call and needs extra personal (since unfortunately in villages you only have volunteers' fire stations). It's creepy but I've grown so used to them by now haha, i hear them at least once a month. No matter the time, it will echo throughout the whole town. Kinda spooky if you're walking late at night on the empty streets. And yeah, is pretty loud just like you saw 😂 Edit: depending on the number of spins, you also can know what's going on, if fire, if car accident, etc.
In Croatia volonteer firefiters have an app on their phones that starts wailing, then you have to ether press that you are available or not. That way they also get the info of if there are enough people available or not. If they need to alert the volunteers a town over.
Yeah as far as i know, they have something like that here too, or so i heard a few years back. But maybe just to be safe they still ring the siren - I've had a few family members who were volunteer firefighters, including my dad, i remember back in the day they also had a pager, but still would ring the siren @@LilliD3
As a Norwegian, I can definitely confirm that is how the Norwegian EAS alarm sounds like, and different signals mean different things - although we recently added digital EASes to smartphones as well.
@@JoriDiculous Not really - I've lived in both urban and really rural places, and I've always heard them when they're tested. Of course they're placed strategically in areas where a lot of people live, as well as around areas that are otherwise vulnerable to or natural targets for an enemy attack. This means that it's actually opposite - very many people _can_ hear them. Yes, there are a substantial number of people outside of hearing distance to these alarms, but WAAAAAAAAY more people can hear them. Besides, with Norway having adopted an electronic EAS, its reach has substantially improved to virtually everyone in Norway.
@@HrLBolle Not exact. The radio operators alternately used the then common "CQD" which is like "CQ" - "to everybody" and "D" for "distress" (emergency call) as well as the new "SOS".
@@rome0610 Thanks to our Friend Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs I am aware that Senior operator Jack Phillips alongside his junior operator Harold Bride, both employees of the Marconi Company, or to be more precise the maritime department of it, used "CQD" followed by the newly adopted "SOS" to inform any vessel within reach of their situation and after that to update the rescuers on the situation right to last ounce of steam supplied to the auxiliary Dynamo installation aboard the doomed RMS TITANIC.
Just imagine living in a small german village, having one of those sirens installed on your house. In the village my mom lives in, the sirens got changed. The old GDR E57 got switched to a new one, even louder... When I walked past that one, it went off for a traffic accident on the Autobahn (it's a volunteer fire department in this village) And if you wonder "What's a E57 sounding like?", Romania sounds like they still have them... Poland sounds like an air raid siren straight out of WW2... 9:12 - the canadian one got me - Here in Austria a new system got tested - called "AT Alert" and all phones at work went off with that sound at the same time... Australia sounds like a fire alarm at the airport got triggered... Heard that one years ago in Leipzig, Germany - gladly it was a malfunction and everything was okay a few minutes later after the system was reset all the scandinavian ones sound like a train or ship horn going off non-stop
Our alarm (Sweden) is called Hesa Fredrik. And is tested on the first non-holiday Monday in the last month of the quarter (March, June, September, December) at 3:00 p.m.
the french alarm is about 105db, this alarm is tested the first Wednesday of the month at 12 o'clock and as a french I think it's a pretty cripy sound lol
@@UserName92149 I confirm every month the first Wednesday between 11:45 and 12:15. No one panics because we are used to it since childhood. There are also fire evacuation exercises in schools several times a year
@@UserName92149 Sweden also tests every month. First monday 15:00. I guess that makes everyone familiar with it since you don't hear it very often otherwise. I heard it once in 45 years when some clever guy managed to flip an entire tanker on a heaviliy trafficked road in a densely populated area (Valhallavägen).
The Dutch system is scheduled to be decommissioned but lots of people have spoken up against that. There now is an alternative system that works via the mobile phone network, the advantage is that it can send a text message detailing what the issue is. Also, it is more likely that it is noticed when you are indoors or in rural areas. But of course it requires a mobile phone to even notice it.
THe phasing out of the EAS is shelved indefinitely because of these protests. That, and the mobile phone system, even though it's been in used for over a decade still doesn't function as it should.
regarding the austrian alert. there are three different patterns, designated to different threat levels and one of them to signal that the alert has ended. if that thing is blaring for 3 minutes straight, it's a problem if that thing is going up and down. sh't is about to happen. 1 minute: no more danger.
@@Moonchild0 i think its actually every first saturday. at least for Niederösterreich, but definitely not in Vienna. I live in Vienna close to the border to Niederösterreich and i hear the EAS blaring every first saturday.
in Czechia, we test every wednesday (edit: I wanted to say first wednesday in month), tourists are always very confused by that, I thought they test it in all countries, but they obviously don't 😀 we started testing it properly after 2002 floods
@@arnaudlevoyageurhorrifique I meant first wednesday in month ofcourse, I was somehow confused when I was typing it. 😀 They test it because in 2002, half of them didn't work and it was a problem in time when not everyone had mobily phone.
We used to call firefighters on duty, it happened one time to listen and I freaked out, first because i didn't know that in my country (village, not state) use that, second is an air raid siren, if you listen that you know that you are f...
In Austria we have short siren tests every Saturday at noon (12 a.m.). And once a year whats called Zivilschutz Probealarm (= civil protection alarm test) where all types of different emergency sounds are tested and sirens are deeper montiored and inspected. And this year there was also for the first time the nationwide phone alert too... where we get this alert notification on our phones.
The Norwegian and Swedish ones are essentially the same system. It's Kockum Sonics "Tyfon" pneumatic air horns. The main difference is the Norwegian ones are usually mounted with three horns in the same spot, whereas the Swedish ones are usually just one horn (although there are sometimes two horns in one spot), hence the sound is a bit different/stronger on the Norwegian one. There is also an electronic version of the system starting to replace the pneumatic horns in Sweden, which can play messages as well. The electronic ones are easy to tell apart from the OG pneumatic horns: The pneumatic horns are just that, air horns mounted on a pole, whereas the electronic version has an air horn with a silver-coloured "ball"/"sphere" on the back end of it.
We hear the Dutch alarm every month during the test, on the first Monday of the month, at 12 o'clock noon for one minute and 26 seconds! 😎 And it's super funny when there are foreigners here at that moment, because they think WW3 has started! 🤣✌🏼
Many of those sirens go back to WWII air raid sirens. In Germany we have a mixture that can range from original ones or just after the war, to new electronic horn speakers which can in theory also be used for like announcements in an emergency situation. We abandoned a siren alarm system in the nineties, just to scramble to rebuild one in the last Years, as until late we also did not have cell broadcast implemented. Today we have a modular system with sirens, cell broadcast, radio and TV stations as well as electronic billboards being integrated. Oh, and the today unavoidable apps of course.
In germany after abandoning sirens in the nineties we scrambled to reestablish a system in the last years. Today we have a mix from same type as wwii air raid sirens (i think austria and others use similar models or the sound is somewhat similar ro rjat, although often it is changed as the original sound gave older people who still knew air raid sirens almost a heart attack) up to electronic horn speakers that can be used for announcements as well. Add to that messages through tv and radio stations, electronic bilboards, cell broadcast (just implemented over the last years) From my childhood i remeber sirens were tested every first saturday in the month at exactly noon. Today they are monitored and we usually have what they call a "Warntag" once a year. There are typically two or three signals, one alarm signal with the siren ramping up and slowing down in a fixed intervall. I think three times for thirty seconds continuous tone is not everywhere and may be used to alert volunteer firefighters. A continuous one monute tone ends the alarm. For tests it is played ahead of the test as well to announce the following alarm as a test. In the oast we had multiple alarms, like a separate one what was called "ABC Alarm". Today there is only one that tells you to switch on your radio or look into an app like NINA that will also show you alarms and warnings, wven for thise where sirens are not used. When it comes ro weather or smaller incidents involving for example smoke those usually are only on the app. If they sound the sirens, the shit indeed has hit rhe fan big time. The one from the UK indeed sounds exactly like a Cellbroadcast alarm from any mobile phone.
Idk but here in South Bavaria we have a Alarm Test with Phone warning every first Saturday on each Month and they actually do sound like the old Sirens kinda like the ones we heared from Ukraine.
@@Numira Northrhine -Westfala seems not to have monthly public tests any more. On the Phone you might be using either the Nina or Katwarn ab, at least one of those sounds like an actual Siren. The newly established Cell Broadcast messages (as it was not needed or requested the cellphone providers did not implement it since, can´t even tell when) sound exactly like the UK sirens from the video, or what Ian called an amber alert (got those in the US as well) which is actually a cell broadcast message. Not sure if it is some sort of standardized sound for those message types or if there is some kind of a silent agreement between all vendors, as it seems indeed all cellphones, Apple, google, Motorola. OnePlus,... play the same sounds for that.
The weirdest of all is still the Chicago Tornado Siren. The "alternate wail" is probanly the eeriest sound an american federal siren can produce. It is so creepy that it was used for Siren Head, a monster in a Fallout 4 Mod.
In Denmark we test these the first Wednesday of May every year. For a second you think the country is getting attacked, but then you remember the date😂
They did yearly testing for a while in the Netherlands as well, but it was considered too disruptive because people would tend to forget it was that time of year again. So they switched back to testing every first monday of the month.
I couldn't bear watching the whole video, but skipped through it to find the Dutch one, especially after hearing most of the others were one solid tone. Your reaction was perfect! It gets even more impressive when you live between two towers that aren't entirely in sync, and hear a mix of frequencies and durations.
There are basically 2 types of those srens: the old mechanical type, thats known since WW2, and the modern electronical generated sounds. Here in Germany we used to have mechanical ones up to some years ago,. Since, many have ben exchanged for electronic ones - the kind of sound was mostly kept, though. And there are a number of different modes (continous, interrupted) with different meanings. Of course the electronical ones are much more flexible in what the sound can be and even can contain vocal warnings. Like in Japan. The old ones (Austria, Ukraine) are basically wheels with holes that are spun by a electric motor. So the sound they can make is pretty limited. But they are very loud, neverthelss. That depends also how far away it is, of course.
In Germany we have some alert signals: Alerts for the fire brigade 1. Fire brigade alarm (continuous tone: 3 x 15 seconds, interrupted 2 x 7 seconds) A continuous tone of 3 x 15 seconds, each interrupted for 7 seconds, means "fire brigade alarm". This signal is only used to alert the fire brigade. The signal can be repeated if necessary. 2. Siren test (continuous tone, 15 seconds) A continuous tone of 15 seconds means "siren test". This signal is only used to test the siren function and is usually triggered every first Saturday of the month at around 11 a.m. However, in this day and age, one cannot close one's eyes to other dangers that the population must be warned about. This is also done via the siren. Therefore, you should at least have heard and read about it. Warnings for the population 3. Alarm (rising and falling siren, 1 minute) -> this was used for bombing at WW II A rising and falling siren lasting at least 1 minute means "alarm", danger is imminent. Turn on the radio or TV and observe the behavioral measures indicated there. 4. Warning (continuous tone, 3 minutes) A constant continuous tone lasting 3 minutes means "warning". This signal is triggered when the population is to be warned of approaching dangers (natural events, technical disasters, radioactivity). Turn on the radio or TV and observe the behavioral measures indicated there. 5. All clear (continuous tone, 1 minute) A constant continuous tone lasting 1 minute (only after a previous alarm signal) means "all clear", i.e. the danger has ended. However, continue to pay attention to the announcements on the radio or TV, as there may be certain temporary restrictions.
I'd argue that sweeping frequencies are the best as it has the best chance for elderly and/or people with impaired hearing. A fixed frequency can be totally missed by some people. Also depending on where they are and background noise from machinery or otherwise.
This is exactly what the Dutch EAS signal does, and for that specific reason. The rising frequencies ensure even the elderly who have lost most of their hearing will pick it up.
The Netherlands will also test them every first monday of the month, with a few very rare exeptions. And sometimes locations will not go off so it is a good thing to test it. They will send phone alerts, and sometimes use the alarm as well locally when there is a big fire nearby depending on the situation
I don't know if you know music, but the Dutch one basically slides up and down one octave while climbing the scale at the start of each slide. After it reaches that highest note it repeats from the beginning of the cycle.
Here in the UK we had a test of the EAS alert last year, but on my phone network (Three) for some reason no users received it, so we went about our daily business without a care in the world. Maybe that's the best way to deal with these emergency warnings.
Aye, iv never seen or heard and EAS here in England. Not even certain we have a real way of getting it across. I think they rely to heavily on TV, which most people i know, myself included, don't watch or even have a tv these days given everything's on the computer now
In sweden they are tested on first monday of every third month at 15:00 (march, june, september and december). There are different signals to keep track of, but only the "VMA" (Viktigt Meddelande för Allmänheten, or "Important message to the public") signal are tested. The signal is colloquially called "Hesa Fredrik" (hoarse Fredrik)
fun fact: our sirens in austria get tested every saturday exactly at 12/noon to see if everything works fine. Also fire departments use the same alarm when the firefighters are needed/there's a fire/accident etc where the firefighters are in need. We are used to hearing that alarm at least once a week
...and once in a quater of a year the whole "procedure" will be testet: the weekly test pattern, pre-alarm, alarm, all-clear, electronic devices like pager included.
In general - there are two types of sirens. the air-powered older ones - and the newer electronic ones. I'm quite sure Greece and Romania were air-powered - I really like them. The cadence of rising tone+volume, holding - and going back down again is simply by compressed air being turned on, staying on - and being turned off. The rotor spooling up and down inside the siren causes the tone and volume to rise and fall. Those were in widespread use since WW2 here in Germany - and most probably in many other parts of Europe. Very effective, simple - and reliable. Original ones from WW2 have a kinda raspy note to them due to surface rust. Their mushroom-shape can still be seen on many buildings here. The newer electronic ones are a lot less cool IMO - albeit Kuwait and the Netherlands are pretty cool and use the full potential of modern tech.
The Finnish one was the sound people hear when there's some public safety announcement on radio or TV. It's a text, which runs on the screen. The alarms are tested on every first Monday of month at noon, so you can check your watch then. The sound differs a bit depending on each siren. Here are couple of examples: "Siren test 3.5.2021 - City center of Lappeenranta, Finland", "Siren test in Espoo, Finland - Teho-Ulvo D1200 - 7.7.2014", "Hörmann F71 pneumatic siren test in Turku, Finland 3.7.2023" and "Old Teho-Ulvo siren tested in Lahti, Finland - Väestöhälyttimen kokeilu".
I'm a Swede that have our official emergency response app (SOS Alarm 112) on my phone. It has the most notable sound that I ever heard. A problem is that it doesn't alert about war or bombings. It does however force you to change underwear if there's a traffic accident in your area. Some adjustments regarding the sound and actual danger would be nice.
Du kan fixa det i inställningarna! Om du öppnar appen och klickar på "mer" i menyn så kan du välja att ställa den på "notis alarm" (den läskiga), "notis på" (skickar en vanlig pushnotis med liknande ljud som sms) eller "notis av" (inga notiser). Jag håller med om att den är skitläskig.
You can come and listen to the Dutch alarm every first Monday of the month at noon. And twice a year all mobile phones will start buzzing and beeping as well. Be sure to be around some tourists or new expats...the looks on their faces...so much fun. I figure all countries have these alarm, but not all do regular testing.
In Bulgaria you heard them on 2 June every year for tribute , But also you hear them extra one time a year when they test them , and then you actually hear the 4 different tones for different warnings + voice. There was incident few years back in a city where instead of the tone for the tribute they played the one for air attack and people panicked. Also since last year they have been testing national wide phone alerts , so that will be added at some point as well.
Yep, every first Monday of the month we can enjoy our nice alarm in every town in the Netherlands. But they are gonna break them down in a few years from now, because we get the alarms also on our smartphones recently.
We hear the Dutch one every first Monday of the month. And they sometimes test the phone alert system as well. That one has the same sound as the American and British ones. The look on the faces of tourists when these things go off is priceless.
We, in The Netherlands, hear it testing every first Monday of the month at 12 in the afternoon, and once in the 3 months also the phone alarm testing at the same time, which sounds kinda simular to the US. That phone test always scares the crap out of me 🤣 Its so loud..
If you decide to travel to Europe one time and want to hear that air alarm signal for your self, visit the Netherlands around the first Monday of the month, as they are tested on noon that day...
In Germany many of these sirens were taken down after the end of the cold war. So you don't really hear this wailing sounds of a siren very often anymore. Not too long ago a system was implemented that instead sends a warning signal to cell phones, regardless of model or network company. Very loud warning sounds and information texts are sent to every cell phone that is connected to a certain cell. The system is pretty new, the first time it was tested like half of the phones did not receive the signal. Now I started working at Deutsche Bahn, the german national railway company this summer. The first months will be mostly training, much of it in a class room setting. We were each issued a cell phone and a tablet (which also has a sim card) and of course we each have a privat phone. So we're 11 people including our instructor, totalling 33 devices. Let's say this time they tested the system, it worked very well and our ears were ringing for the next hour! 😅
In South Africa we only have these alarms at the refineries for emergencies and it sounds similar to the French one. It is an electric motor with a turbo like blade ( not sure what it is called) which makes that sound and when you switch off the motor then it makes that winding down sound at the end.
Being close to an alarm can be terrifying, even if you know it's just a test. In Austria, the sirens are tested every Saturday at noon, with the first Saturday of October having all warning signal types tested. (same siren, but different lengths and intervals) It's *so* loud that I'm not sure if it's supposed to be two slightly dissonant frequencies or if it's my hearing almost shutting down. Also, it gets creepier when you hear sirens in other parts of the city starting up slightly offset.
In the Croatia the EAS gets tested on the first Satuday of the month at noon. Not a pleasant sound for those of us who lived during the war...I still get goosebumps when they test on Saturdays. I don't know where this siren we were listening to is from, but in Zagreb it is the same as the Ukrainian one.
I was scared shitless the first time I heard the dutch one. I was a brand new uni student last year and was about to leave my home and then heard this shit, I didnt know its tested first monday of every month. Just when I was getting used tot he sound a couple months in, my phone alarm also went off which never has happened before. Shook me to my core😭😭
the us one is interesting, i always thought thats just the sound the tv makes when all stations go offline, not that this the sound thats meant to be a siren
It's weird, i actually can'timagine it being any useful in like high wind or loud traffic or heavy crowd situations with lots of noise. High persistent frequencies carry better through the chaos like those
In early 1984 an air raid warning siren test happened just as I was sat looking out my bedroom window across the fields from Arundel towards Littlehampton - it was the last thing I expected to hear and my blood ran cold as I thought that was it. I couldn't move as I was that scared. The next thing I heard was a motorbike racing along the main road as he probably thought his time was up as well. They regularly did these tests over in Portsmouth dockyard and there's videos of people at The Hard (near HMS Warrior) filming them as they happened.
The Greek one is from military exercises done 2-3 times per year. The siren starts and holds tone for the duration of the alarm (usually 1-2 minutes). The video is taken from an exercise in Athens and the horn is somewhere across the city.
In the Netherlands the system is tested on every first Monday of the month at noon. I've got one of those alarm things RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY APARTMENT basically at eye level from my vantage point. IT'S LOUD.
As a Portuguese I’m used to hear ours every other week or so. Now with cell phones and better ways of communication, don’t know how often they sound, but growing up they used to go off for forest fires and big accidents, coz it was also used to call upon the voluntary firefighters to rush to the FD HQ. The one we all always fear the most, it’s what’s it called the Siren’s Cry, they sound it when firefighters fall in the line of duty.
recorded the last test alarm we had in germany, have it here on my YT. there are entire channels dedicated just to the sirens failing. how they sound may appear differently depending on their age and type, sometimes weather conditions or if they got dirty over time, and the terrain that might reflect sound. different types are used to cover different distances. inner city sirens may be different than those on the wide open lands.
An alarm that rocked my childhood is the one that was in the "Baa Baa Black Sheep" Opening. An old American series on WWII with Robert Conrad. and corsair plane
The US one sounds like a alien mind control. The Canadian sounds like everything is already dead and this comes from a still running broadcast. Mexiko needs a bass drum
A long monotonous tone indicates the end of the danger. height, color, purity of sound depends on the manufacturer of the siren. In my town in Croatia it is actually like the one in France.
This type of alarm was abandoned years ago in the UK. Today, audible and text alarms are sent to every mobile phone in the area/region involved, or nationally as necessary.
If the UK has an EAS sirent it's news to me and I've lived here my whole life. I think the guy who compiled ths just had an iPhone and it was just the best he could do.
the Danish one is tested on the first Wednesday in May, at noon. As of last year, there is also a mobile phone alert. Having been used to only hearing the alarm once a year, I nearly had a heart attack when it (due to a error) went off late in the evening a couple of years ago
When I saw the title I wondered about why there would be a video about Electronic Air Suspension alarms on Range Rovers. Now I’m going to Google what an EAS alarm is all about (don’t have them in Australia as far as I’m aware).
Most of the european alarms stem from WWII, where the sirens where used and known as air raid sirens to warn the citizens that a nearby airplane bombing is imminent, so the citizens could search refuge in their basements for shelter. As far as my late grandmother told me, whenever those sirens sounded you would drop everything you just did and make a run for the basement to save your life. Also, the swelling of the sirens has different meanings: If it's swelling up and down that marks the warning, pretty much says: "Caution, imminent danger" When it's just one, lone singular tone going on: "All Clear, threat over" Also, in Germany, the modern EAS Alarm is accompanied by a blaring and shrill loud sound your Cellphone will make, including a red screen displayed on it as well.
Swiss here. The second one is a old siren that uses several honks for the siren sound. I think there is only one remaining in the whole country, if there still is one. They all get replaced by ones that sound similar to the first one.
In Sweden we call the signal Hesa Fredrik (Hoarse Frederick). It's tested the first Monday in March , June, September and December at 3 PM. The name Hoarse Fredrik, cames from the very inception of the signal in 1931, rhe radio reporter had a cold that day and said something like "this signal is as hoarse as I am", so the signal got the nickname from Day 1.
I'm a Dane and back when I was a kid 25-30 years ago the sirens were tested once a week and there was a siren 100 feet from where I lived. Today the sirens are tested once a year luckily
Im an Aussie living back in the land of Oz after 16 years in the US Midwest. This reminds me of 12 Noon every Wednesday in Columbus Ohio. Right up there with Ghetto Birds taking to the sky at sundown every day and hearing gunshots every night when I put my head down. Never heard any of these since returning to Sydney NSW, Australia.
Our Australian alarm is normally for the TV just to alert you on a big storm coming with strong winds and possible hail, which is usually explained seconds after the alarm interruption takes place. Now that we don't watch TV anymore, I don't know what we would get instead. Maybe push notifications or maybe that iphone one lol
13:05. The Danish one can be used both as short bursts in a pattern and as a longer tone depending of meaning. As an example, If something goes on locally, it will be a constant tone for a minute and then means: "go inside, close windows and listen to radio/TV". If used locally a special text TV page also will state why specifically. SMS can also be used to push a message in an area or nation wide.
You can hear how loud the Norwegian and Swedish systems are because you hear the noice echoing after the main horn silences out... The Swedish one is called "Hesa Fredrik" which would translate to Hoarse Fredrik in English... When I was little the horn was mounted right above our living room window...
Hey here from Switzerland, the alarm sounds exactly like that. He has to sound weard, otherwise no one would react. But there is a sound that is beautiful and frightening at the same time, it is children's laughter, beautiful when it is your child, horror when it is midnight, you are alone at home and have no children... happy Halloween.
In New Zealand we also use the second U.S alarm tone (8:30), which strangely enough, happens to be the only alarm tone I've actually heard used in person before.
