Around here it's the first Tuesday of every month.
this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2025
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My company tests their fire alarm on Fridays. We are so fucked if we ever actually have a fire on Friday.
During one of the fire drills when I was going to school, one teacher was like "we should test whether the smoke alarms actually work" and lit a small fire in a small metal bin. Plot twist was that the smoke detectors on this side of the school did not work, but when the smoke got to the other side of the school it worked and triggered the alarm. Only at that time all the pupils were already on their way back into the building again and panicked when they noticed smoke and a new alarm.
Same in France, the test the fire station siren every first Wednesday of each month.
The problem is, I have no idea what it means if the sirens go off at any other moment.
Get inside close all the doors and windows and listen on the radio to the gov communication I guess ?
Do you think i have a radio at home ? I don't even have a TV.
If internet goes down I'm losing all my communications with it.
Ho I know, that's the irony of this imho. In stuff that nobody has, there is also this emergency bag that you are supposed to check once per year : Link
I should really do that.
It means the Boches are at it again!
that means it's already over for Poland and Belgium
My area tests the NPP's sirens the first Monday of every month and now I just tune it out which worries me. Hopefully if it ever sounds in a weird time my brain picks up something's very wrong.
I do sometimes feel like it would be better if they didn't test these things so much. So that when they went off they were actually a shock when they were used for real as they're supposed to be.
There is a nuclear power station near me and they always sound the siren on the last Friday of every month at 10am, when I first moved to the area every time it went off I always used to have to go and check the calendar because I was never 100% clear if it was or wasn't the last Friday of the month. But after a while I just stopped checking the calendar, so at some point I'm probably going to get irradiated. I suppose with hurricanes there are at least visual clues that a hurricane might be happening, what does a melting down power station look like?
One time a friend and I went to Oahu to visit another guy, and he missed when we talked about the monthly test of the tsunami warning that was scheduled that day. He was out swimming by himself when the thing went off, and he started swimming back to shore like a maniac. I never saw a guy swim so fast in my life LOL. He kept glancing over his shoulder expecting a tsunami to be bearing down on him. Right about the time the siren stopped he came stumbling and staggering out of the water, coughing and gagging, and there we were sitting on the sand laughing our asses off. Good times.
Small town I used to live in would run an old air raid siren every single day at noon.
The town I live in would run the tornado/fire siren (it was the same siren but with a different pattern for how long it would be run for to call the volunteer firefighters to the station whenever there's a really bad emergency) as a noon whistle every day. Around 2018 or 2019 they stopped doing the noon whistle, but never instituted regular testing so we've had super irregular tornado sirens when they are needed. During one really bad storm half the sirens failed to go off at all (fortunately the tornados jumped over town. There were tornados west of us, then tornados east of us but somehow none in town) then the following storm the tornados for half the town failed to go off. They've been testing irregularly since then but I'd really prefer if they performed monthly tests
Monthly or even weekly tests are definitely preferable. You don't want to wait until a serious emergency to find out the motor locked up or the controller doesn't work.
It's a common tradition for small towns to keep their old noon whistles going, decades after they stopped being used for their original purpose. There are tons of 1920s, 30s and 40s-era sirens that are still used every day as noon whistles, as well as some Cold War era stuff.
It's interesting that people still ring something around noon. In my European country it's common practice in every town/village (even in big cities) to ring the church bell at 12 o' clock, but that's a tradition from waaaaay back when not everyone could have a timekeeping device. We also have an air raid siren (mostly because of a "nearby" nuclear reactor), which also gets tested, but only about once a month.
EDIT: What the fuck did I do? I just said it was interesting that while in a different form, noon time ringing is still a thing in 2025. Sorry if that offended someone.
Heathen!
As a midwesterner, it’s the first Tuesday of the month at 10 AM. At least for my state.
For us, it's the first Saturday of the month at 1pm
Interesting We have tsunami sirens on Wednesday here on the pacific coast
Ours are usually on the first Wednesday of the month, but we had a scheduled one this week on Thursday and it scared the shit out of me.
My country used to have those every first wednesday of a month at exactly 12:00. And then they would anounce that its a syren test.
Now they've swapped it. Apperantly due to Ukranian refugies being scared that there is bombing.
But still, if you want to bomb us, 12:00 on wendnesday is your spot.
Tuesday for me
First Tuesday of the month and at 10am.
A similar thing applies for Sweden, where there's a quarterly test of the public emergency warning system, which always happens at 15:00 on Mondays.
The system has the nickname "Hesa Fredrik" ("Hoarse Fredrik").
Since this system will be used in case of an attack in the event of a war, this means we have to contemplate if Russia is attacking or if it's just Monday each time we hear the signal.
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