"The siren tone that we heard on Saturday, this week, is what we call the attack mode," said Eric Rasmussen, director of ...

Whenever I hear the sound of an air raid siren in films or on the television my heart stops and I am transported back to a day in 1949. After the war the local pits bought the air raid warning sirens.

Air-raid siren sounds the warning. Air-raid sirens first sounded the warning in London in September 1939. They became an almost daily part of life in the capital a year later during the height of ...

"The siren tone that we heard on Saturday ... First installed in the 1950s, they were developed for Cold War air raid warnings, but in the 1970s, the sirens transitioned to outdoor warning ...