ABC Radio Recording of the Emergency Alert System at 3PM on January 18, 2003 Canberra Firestorm

[@blaggard9]

Americans: The EAS tones are scary. Australians: Hold my beer, seppo.

[@TheDeldaisy]

Omg. Its so quiet! kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5u0mGiuiJqnr7Msi=QhWul9tvBRCZlePI

[@muddydave01]

Yeah. Whoever created that sound must've had a deep understanding of aural psychology. I've heard it plenty since and never fails to make me scream a bit inside. Maybe that's what hearing it the first time in a day like that does. I remember looking at the Mc Intyres plume on Friday evening and saying they'd be fighting it in the ACT Saturday if it broke containment but I never expected it to reach the river.

[@nazakatali244]

It's not that scary, infact, it sound funky

[@JordanBahrPian-UkePlayer]

That's how the U.S. used to treat the Attention Signal for the Emergency Broadcast System.

[@billybillybillybillybillybilly]

Welcome to Autralia, we here this a few times a year

[@realdanpatterson]

Modulated ascending frequency tones are piercing both aurally and mentally in any situation - the alternation between a rising tone and a beep at the end repeating over and over creates a good mix between a simple attention tone that simply annoys you (looking at you USA) and something that lumps it all together in a simply chaotic and not so much scary as it is startling sound (looking at you NZ). The Australian SEWS tone is, by all means, something you can tell was at the very least designed by someone who takes it seriously. You can tell it's good because they've been using it at LEAST since Tracy.

[@johnkoundouzis8677]

Shit I remember listening to this on the day. It still chills me to the bone today! That was a crazy scary day.

[@chriswalski]

I remember that day in 2003 and alert like yesterday. By this time Duffy was already up. My heart goes out to the current men and women fighting the fires in VIC and NSW.

[@OantasPtfs-b3g]

I lost my home during this so so sad and I lost my dogs that day too can’t forget that day.

[@reecey_017]

So sorry for your loss, I hope you are doing much better all these years later

[@random_veemo]

That must have been heartbreaking! I'm so sorry for your loss!

[@johntroahalbaracin4025]

sorry for your lost brother.

[@vickijm19]

I'd never heard that sound clip b4- even now -nearly 11 years later - it made my blood run cold.

[@ultimateagent1784]

VickiM19 because there hasn’t really been another reason to use it

[@TrentonMatthews]

It just, works! The USA one, ... Well... It's jus annoying!

[@chillies4156]

@@ultimateagent1784 it has been used.

[@keithwatts9382]

I'm from Canada, and thought the "AlertReady" tone was scary... Now, I know I'm wrong.

[@bonkmaykr]

america is spooky as fuck

[@venangoproductions]

Listen to America’s

[@lightningfun6486]

@@venangoproductions America’s just sound wierd

[@thelegendtl]

The american eas alert sounds pathetic

[@doohickey-enjoyer]

@@venangoproductions The scariest part of the US alert tone is the header, which is used to designate where the warning reaches (I think, second hand information), the real "Alert tone" of the US alert system are the 2 "Beeps" heard after the header.

[@themoon7435]

I was 1 when this happened, living in the Tuggeranong area. Apparently my mum wanted to leave in case things got worse down there but my dad was against it so we didn't leave. She told me that her, my dad, and the neighbours all sat on our roof watching the fires happen in the distance.

[@kathbeck7817]

I was 16 at the time, our (now ex) friend was targeted, a group of farmers in my area's addict clinic made sure we Fadden Hills guys weren't facing anything, I owe those 7-8 men

[@avidutubewatcher]

I will never forget this day - I was trapped in the suburb of Duffy and was lucky to get out. Every house in the street went up. I was listening to the radio and this sound still chills. me 21 years later

[@random_veemo]

Dang, must have been scary were you ok?

[@32bluey87]

Still give Me chills to my spine that alert

[@lexidiusBS]

Why did youtube algorithm decide to reccomend me EAS alarms and send me down this rabbit hole, only to remember I never got my 7th birthday. Sometimes I forget how far back the childhood trauma really is. It took finding this video to remind myself that it's okay to still feel affected by it.

[@realdanpatterson]

As someone who has been involved in some fucked up stuff, I agree with this completely. It takes something random to send you back into it all, and it's about not letting it consume you, but not letting it be ignored. You have to acknowledge it's there.

[@chriswalski]

Listen to that live that day. By the times this sounded houses on the urban fringe was already up.

[@Zoomer30]

The female reporter sounds like the one they used in some of the cut scenes in Command and Conquer (the first EA CnC)

[@bonkmaykr]

Having your news named Triple-six is asking for trouble

[@mikeuchiha5972]

Tell me about it

[@madarajio3397]

If I had a bushfire warning we would've evacuated

[@MarkPentler]

Just to clear up confusion here, the sound isn't played for that long. The clip here is from a montage made by ABC radio of their content during the day, and the siren is just repeating at the end of that clip. The rest of the montage is cut off. The pictures are from the 9News camera operator who filmed that day. That footage is quite famous and the whole thing is on KZbin.

[@MarkPentler]

@Patrick Buttler I don’t off the top of my head but search for channel seven Canberra bushfire maybe?

[@MarkPentler]

@Patrick Buttler here we go! kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4HTgIt-ZaZ3ick

[@echonomad94]

Should have seen Parliament House that day. I was there.

[@Bennythegamer1x7x9]

I hope some koalas are not dead Edit:someone said it was inevitable (this comment that I made was one year ago)

[@realdanpatterson]

mate, they were all fucked.

[@libra818]

I'm sorry, it was inevitable....

[@wellitsmelbell]

Geez I was less than a year old when this happened

[@aussielt.colonel8010]

The US EAS sounds like the old Internet dial-up

[@realdanpatterson]

the first 3 tones serve a similar purpose - they are not for tones sake (that's what the solid tone is for) but for communicating the information to the decoders at radio stations.

[@jnthepassenger347]

The Emergency sound just sits there, makes me shit bricks!

[@billybillybillybillybillybilly]

Wait, 666 Radio?

[@fulldimensionalstation]

Bad idea to use the triple six number

[@havanadaurcy1321]

616 now.

[@HoldenStraya]

Anyone notice the radion is ABC RADIO CANBERRA 666

[@havanadaurcy1321]

616 is the devil's number, not 666.

[@jaycee330]

1:45 Y'know, if you listen long enough, the siren starts to sound like it's saying "all rIIIIIGHT? all rIIIIIGHT? all rIIIIIGHT?"

[@realdanpatterson]

MAAAATE MAAAATE MAAAATE MAAAATE MAAAATE MAAAATE MAAAATE MAAAATE MAAAATE

[@ChocoLTRose]

is it just me or is the start of the video all glitchy

[@fairfieldcountyeas]

the irony is strange in this if you onow what I mean

[@CentralOHSirens]

what

[@fairfieldcountyeas]

@@CentralOHSirens Dintℹ