WDSU Aircheck--Bogalusa Train Derailment audio announcements Dec 20 1996

[@incognitoguy9818]

This is one of the only local access alerts that actually made me jump. Congrats on that.

[@CEASeFireProductions2K]

You just found something special with this tape! This interruption is known as an emergency override system or cable override, and civil authorities, the mayor or the city could interrupt all channels on a cable system by way of telephone to deliver emergency information like here!

[@eascec8374]

Wow, that's the longest Local Access Alert message I've ever heard! Nice find!!

[@brianhebert6152]

Actually, it's a series of broadcasts

[@eascec8374]

Oh, Oops! Now I see, but still very cool!

[@WildDiamond07]

Judging by the length, I was expecting a scenario like the 1999 Yukon tornado warning.

[@brianhebert6152]

Fun fact: Another rail car accident at the Gaylord facility a year earlier in 1995 caused a large-scale evacuation and resulted in compensation checks being issued

[@ItzBIULD]

That's what this is, I think OP made a typo

[@brianhebert6152]

Never knew some emergency override broadcasts were done directly by a municipality's mayor instead of someone at the civil authorities office.

[@eascec8374]

I know right. Most LAA/EOSs I discovered were telephoned by police/sheriff, fire, or emergency managements.

[@DaimosZ]

Honestly think that Mayor is the kind of small town mayor I wish would be my towns mayor

[@PelicanGuy]

Ole Charter Communications, the cable company serving Washington Parish.

[@CEASeFireProductions2K]

Aye so back to bring a finding I was made aware of on Discord: Based on a newspaper article discussing problems officials were having with the system's audio published a few months before this override was initiated, the system used here may have specifically been Cadco's Civil Emergency Alert System or at least another override system by the company! Taking that into consideration, and I must emphasize the following speculation should be taken with a big grain of salt since I haven't yet gone and verified it, I've also noticed the attention tone and the static screen that keeps popping up for a split second looks and sounds a lot like the overrides from Hamilton County, South Sioux City, and Kadena Air Base. I wonder if those were from the same system or similar?

[@CEASeFireProductions2K]

@eieiw32424 From the amount of scouring I've done on the web, I don't think this one and the similar ones are from CommAlert units. One of the advertisements I've seen for the CEAS describes it as having a "warble" tone, which does line up with the tones that the overrides like this one use. Additionally, reading through mentions of CommAlert on Newspapers (e.g. "County wants access to Adelphia for weather warnings" from the July 7, 1995 issue of The Stuart News), it seems like it was capable of audio-only overrides but could also make the screens go dark as well, the latter of which does not line up with the aforementioned overrides.

[@WhyWhydaguy]

Glad to see a local access alert from my local area and overriding my local station WDSU, AKA channel 8

[@beckybecky125]

can't believe we're finding more and more EOS/LAA activations these days, love to see it

[@WildDiamond07]

Interesting to see the mayor talk about derailing trains on every cable channel. Some Emergency Override System broadcasts can be weird.

[@So1]

How am i just noticing this video

[@WildDiamond07]

Same here, actually.

[@DanknDerpyGamer]

That is the funniest alert tone I've ever heard in one of these. 😂🤣 I now have the mental image stuck in my head of someone tickling a toilet plunger .😂🤣