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Arnold, Missouri 7 ATI HPSS32 units which replace the old Whelen WPS 3016 Sirens. [2] Ketchikan, Alaska maintains a system of 3 ATI HPSS32 units which are tested audibly on the 15th of the month at noon. These sirens are used to warn for tsunamis or in the event of a dam failure. [3] [4] Hudson County, New Jersey has an unknown number of HPSS ...
The Whelen Company is divided into four divisions and has a subsidiary called Whelen Motorsports.. The four divisions of the company are as follows: The Automotive Division — provides lightbars, dashlights, strobe kits, siren boxes, and other public warning systems to be mounted on or within vehicles, [3] rotating sirens, and student alert systems with voice broadcast capability.
A civil defense siren is a siren used to provide an emergency population warning to the general population of approaching danger. Initially designed to warn city dwellers of air raids (air-raid sirens) during World War II, they were later used to warn of nuclear attack and natural disasters, such as tornadoes (tornado sirens).
A siren is a loud noise-making device. There are two general types: mechanical and electronic. Civil defense sirens are mounted in fixed locations and used to warn of natural disasters or attacks. Sirens are used on emergency service vehicles such as ambulances, police cars, and fire engines.
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A Whelen Engineering Company siren with wail, yelp and phaser tones, commonly used by emergency vehicles such as ambulances in several countries. In addition to visual warnings, ambulances can be fitted with audible warnings, sometimes known as sirens, which can alert people and vehicles to the presence of an ambulance before they can be seen ...
The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour (NWMT) (previously the NASCAR Winston Modified Tour and NASCAR Featherlite Modified Series from 1985 until 2005) [1] is a modified stock car racing series owned and operated by NASCAR in the Modified Division. The Modified Division is NASCAR's oldest division, and is the only open-wheeled division that NASCAR ...
Whelen may refer to: . Christopher Whelen (1927–1993), English composer, conductor and playwright; Frederick Whelen (1867-1955), theatre director; Townsend Whelen (1877–1961), American Colonel and rifleman