St. Louis Mo. siren malfunction? or operator error

[Unit of Civil Defense]

While cruizing thru my fav. live severe weather video sights "I" noticed this story at a few of them....here is the link to the story.

http://www.fox2now.com/news/ktvi-stloui ... 6829.story

I noticed in the comments section that someone stated that "it's a Whelen... the wrong buttons where pushed" Anyone care to elaborate more on this

[uncommonsense]

While cruizing thru my fav. live severe weather video sights "I" noticed this story at a few of them....here is the link to the story.

http://www.fox2now.com/news/ktvi-stloui ... 6829.story

I noticed in the comments section that someone stated that "it's a Whelen... the wrong buttons where pushed" Anyone care to elaborate more on this

Yeah, it sounds like there was massive operator error, that the City of St. Louis doesn't know how to work their siren system/know how it works, and the newsmedia is getting its panties in a bunch before they researched the facts.

I found this YouTube video of the city's sirens sounding for the tornado warning yesterday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MOvW1MpbTs

Someone hit the wrong button and activated the air horn tone instead of the alert tone. That's what that "honking" was.

It was not a malfunction. It was someone being clueless.

[Jim_Ferer]

The county probably didn't do the right (or any) training for their system. When something like this happens, IMO the fault is usually not the operators, but the training they received.

[Charlie Davidson]

Someone hit the wrong button and activated the air horn tone instead of the alert tone.

Sounds like someone took the phrase "air horn" literally and thought that meant "tornado siren".

I've seen a news report where they called a 2001 an "Air Siren".