Uploaded June 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Went out to Washington Court House yesterday to see their brand new 7V8-B that was installed in May and hooked up late last month to replace another one of their broken EOWS*612's. This unit, like most of the Sentrys in Fayette County, was delivered by C&K Early Warning Systems and installed by a local electrical contractor. This siren is located at the dead-end of Mulberry St., and is installed on the same pole that the 612 it replaced was.
This was the first battery-backed Sentry I've heard, and I must say for their small size, I was very surprised by just how loud this siren was. It certainly rattled my chest a bit underneath. While it isn't large at all and is much smaller than the 612 it replaced, this siren will no doubt serve the city (and the area it's located in) well for years to come.
Not much else to note except for another successful (and extremely long) Fayette County test. After the first alert cycle winds down on the Sentry, you may be able to hear the new OmniAlert OA-4 across town (which also replaced a 612, that one being replaced in August 2019) as well as a 12 port siren which sounds suspiciously like the Model 7 inside the bell tower on the Fayette County Courthouse. The Courthouse siren was supposedly decommissioned in the 1970's and I presumed it to be inactive, but if it is indeed working, I plan on recording that one soon. Something also interesting to note is that it appears that the ambient sirens only run for 3 minutes; as they cannot be heard after the 2nd alert cycle, while the Sentry sirens seem to run for 4 2-minute alert cycles, for a total duration of 8 minutes. I had thought the entire county did this for testing on all the sirens, but now I'm not too sure. Enjoy!
Fayette County (excluding Jeffersonville & West Lancaster, which test on the same day but at 9am) tests their sirens on the Last Friday of each month at noon (on months with 5 Fridays they will test on the 4th), weather-permitting.
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Camera(s) Used: Canon Powershot SX50HS (Intro Photos), Panasonic HC-V380 (Main video and audio)
© Copyright 2020 by firefreak57 studios. Do not copy any content on this channel without permission. All rights reserved.
Went out to Washington Court House yesterday to see their brand new 7V8-B that was installed in May and hooked up late last month to replace another one of their broken EOWS*612's. This unit, like most of the Sentrys in Fayette County, was delivered by C&K Early Warning Systems and installed by a local electrical contractor. This siren is located at the dead-end of Mulberry St., and is installed on the same pole that the 612 it replaced was.
This was the first battery-backed Sentry I've heard, and I must say for their small size, I was very surprised by just how loud this siren was. It certainly rattled my chest a bit underneath. While it isn't large at all and is much smaller than the 612 it replaced, this siren will no doubt serve the city (and the area it's located in) well for years to come.
Not much else to note except for another successful (and extremely long) Fayette County test. After the first alert cycle winds down on the Sentry, you may be able to hear the new OmniAlert OA-4 across town (which also replaced a 612, that one being replaced in August 2019) as well as a 12 port siren which sounds suspiciously like the Model 7 inside the bell tower on the Fayette County Courthouse. The Courthouse siren was supposedly decommissioned in the 1970's and I presumed it to be inactive, but if it is indeed working, I plan on recording that one soon. Something also interesting to note is that it appears that the ambient sirens only run for 3 minutes; as they cannot be heard after the 2nd alert cycle, while the Sentry sirens seem to run for 4 2-minute alert cycles, for a total duration of 8 minutes. I had thought the entire county did this for testing on all the sirens, but now I'm not too sure. Enjoy!
Fayette County (excluding Jeffersonville & West Lancaster, which test on the same day but at 9am) tests their sirens on the Last Friday of each month at noon (on months with 5 Fridays they will test on the 4th), weather-permitting.
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Camera(s) Used: Canon Powershot SX50HS (Intro Photos), Panasonic HC-V380 (Main video and audio)
© Copyright 2020 by firefreak57 studios. Do not copy any content on this channel without permission. All rights reserved.
