If something like this has been posted before, please redirect this post. I couldn’t find anything.
I read an article recently that stated that Birmingham, AL has a system of 254 sirens. That number was fairly staggering to me as I thought Indianapolis’ system of 168 sirens was a lot for a city. That led me to another question: what’s the biggest siren system currently in operation in the US. Now, I’m sure Hawaii’s statewide system of 340(?) will take the cake, but let’s exclude that obvious choice to make this more fun.
For the sake of making this easier, let’s constitute a system as “this number of sirens can be set off by a single control point at once”. For example, many indiana counties have countywide “systems” that can be set off by the EMA but they consist of many smaller systems that are owned by other entities. Hamilton county is one such example - the county owns only one siren but can set off all the sirens in the county (and some in other counties) if needed. The countywide system is the one we’d be counting here, not the smaller ones.
For more fun and inclusion, let’s also discuss:
Largest in a given state / territory / province
Largest in other individual countries
Largest in the world
My contributions:
Largest in Indiana: Indianapolis - 168
Largest in Alabama: Birmingham - 254
And, go!