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Loud siren in Arklow

  • 24-04-2013 10:58AM
    #1
    Liam90
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 645 ✭✭✭


    I heard it last night about 2am walking home from work, scared the crap out of me. It sounded like a tornado warning or something.

    Anyone know what it is?


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  • #2
    oB1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 706 ✭✭✭oB1


    Liam90 wrote: »
    I heard it last night about 2am walking home from work, scared the crap out of me. It sounded like a tornado warning or something.

    Anyone know what it is?

    The beggining of a zombie apocalypse i beleive? :p


  • #3
    BigMoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,230 ✭✭✭BigMoose


    I heard one of these in Wicklow town the other weekend, roughly 11am on a Sunday morning. Scared the crap out of me too and I wondered if they'd implemented a cunning tsunami warning system. Didn't see anyone run to the hills, so assumed not...


  • #4
    fred funk }{
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭fred funk }{


    Did it sound like an air raid siren?


  • #5
    Liam90
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 645 ✭✭✭Liam90


    It sounded exactly like this:

    Turn your volume down a bit, its loud.



  • #6
    IrishStuff09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 815 ✭✭✭IrishStuff09


    I hear them too in Galway sometimes. Strange .


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  • #7
    Alora
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12 ✭Alora


    It's the fire alarm in one of the local factories in the vale.


  • #8
    fred funk }{
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭fred funk }{


    It's a siren called a master blaster. It can be connected to anything like burglar alarms, fire alarms or golf coarses to warn of lightening and obviously its purpose is to heard from a big distance.

    MASTER BLASTER


  • #9
    natanukas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 ✭natanukas


    It happend again just now 00:30 on 30.11.2016 its scary stuff when it wakes you up such sound. But from previous posts i do belive that it comes from factory in valey.


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