How you alert fireman in North Dakota. 

i love how everyone comes in pickup trucks, and then there's that one guy, probably named Gary, who drives a freaking PT Cruiser. hahaha. god bless those guys!

Requirements for a volunteer is to drive a pickup truck

I worked on a volunteer city in Wyoming...we were 5X national champions 1979-84 for fast response...this video is a shining example of an efficient volunteer station!

AKA how you alert firemen in most small communities in America that have volunteer departments. Dunno why Reddit is so amazed at this. Maybe if they left their basements, they'd realise how things run.

Big Grain elevators in the background. Volunteers are farmers who know nothing moves faster than a fire in a wheat field. Those that aren't manning the fire apparatus are plowing fire breaks in the fields in front of the fire. Just ask the wheat farmers in North Central Oregon who had to respond over and over this year. Even the state and federal fire agencies step back and say there are NONE BETTER at fighting wind driven wildfires than the farmers.

Its amazing how fast they flock to the station, like it's happy hour at Hooters.

If you or your loved ones were in a burning structure would you really care what the fire fighters drove to the station?

Not going to lie it was a quick response time

When the volunteer FD is faster than the paid FD

The members of my local VFD always manage to find a parking spot in the parking lot, no matter how big the fire.My late uncle was a member and chief in a VFD in upstate NY. His house happened to be on the highest spot in town, so that's where the fire siren was located. His wife and kids all knew that whoever was home when the call came out was to turn on the siren. There was a switch on the wall marked "FIRE SIREN - DO NOT TOUCH".

we still touch off the old siren on the roof of our station when ever there is a structure fire....its effective, especially with the spotty radio reception we were left with after narrowbanding..

Do all those volunteers live less than mile from the station??

Legend says the station siren still sounds to this day.

Pick up truck after pick up truck

And the siren is blowing the whole time. Most of the volunteer fire companies in my area still have "fire whistles" as this one. Some had to be took down due to new residents moving in and not being happy with the routine sounds and activities of the already existing departments. I think it's a great tool to use one extra audible alert that gets the firefighters pumped up and ready to roll while enroute to a call to service.

love the video, thats how you respond to a fire call. those guys are faster then any of the fire crews in my town. good job guys

This is a Pick up town, I could remember same thing in my town back in the early 70's Thanks for sharing

yea, this is volunteer firefighters such as myself in small communities are alerted for calls. Their siren goes off much longer than the one at my firehouse and this siren is fairly annoying with how long it runs but it works.

Most volunteer departments still have the siren so the community knows whats going on. as well as the volunteers who may not happen to have their pager on. This happens thousands of times a day all over the country

Wow this is incredible to watch it all happens so fast I love it