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  2. Civil defense siren - Wikipedia

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    A civil defense siren is a siren used to provide an emergency population warning to the general population of approaching danger. Initially designed to warn city dwellers of air raids ( air-raid sirens ) during World War II , they were later used to warn of nuclear attack and natural disasters , such as tornadoes ( tornado sirens ).

  3. List of civil defense sirens - Wikipedia

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    Sentry Siren; SiraTone This page was last edited on 5 August 2024, at 16:06 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...

  4. Q2B - Wikipedia

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    A fire truck running the E-Q2B siren. Today Federal Signal's Q2B siren is still in wide use. The majority of users of the Q Siren are fire departments, although some ambulances and heavy rescue squads have employed the Q-siren. The Q-siren produces 123 decibels at 10 feet (3.0 m) with an operating current of 100 amps at 12 V DC (1.2 kW). [1]

  5. Police car - Wikipedia

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    These sirens alert road users to the presence of an emergency vehicle before they can be seen, to warn of their approach. The first audible warnings were mechanical bells, mounted to either the front or roof of the car. A later development was the rotating air siren, which makes noise when air moves past it. Most modern police vehicles use ...

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  7. Siren (alarm) - Wikipedia

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    In a pneumatic siren, the stator is the part which cuts off and reopens air as rotating blades of a chopper move past the port holes of the stator, generating sound. The pitch of the siren's sound is a function of the speed of the rotor and the number of holes in the stator. A siren with only one row of ports is called a single tone siren.

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