Tooele Outdoor Warning Siren - Tooele, Utah - Outdoor Warning Sirens on Waymarking.com

Tooele County’s Outdoor Warning System consists of a network of 59 sirens. It is ready to be used in the event of a chemical incident at Deseret Chemical Depot (DCD), for a hazardous material spill, for natural disasters, or for any other emergency if necessary.
The US Army, through the Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program (CSEPP), granted funding for 37 of the sirens in 1993. They are a protection for areas that might be initially threatened by an incident at Deseret Chemical Depot. The other 23 sirens were installed in 2002 to increase the coverage area in the Tooele and Rush Valleys and Cedar Valley in Utah County.
Although the sirens were funded through CSEPP, they are an all-hazards warning system. Tooele County emergency authorities can activate the sirens for any reason they deem necessary, such as a severe storm warning, wildfires, or earthquake aftershocks. That’s just one reason that the County’s residents will benefit long after the chemical stockpile is gone.

The siren system is capable of emitting several different tones. To lesson confusion, Tooele County uses a “whoop-whoop” tone for weekly tests and for real emergencies. Emergency Managers have agreed to allow some fire departments to use the sirens to summon firefighters for duty. That tone is different. It’s a “wail” tone that sounds like a fire engine siren.

Each siren tone is preceded and followed by a pre-recorded or live message. The messages give brief and concise emergency instructions. The pre-recorded messages include warnings concerning emergency situations to avoid, instructions for evacuating, or instructions for taking shelter-in-place. Once you hear the sirens activated, you should tune to an Emergency Alert System station for further emergency information.

Each siren can be activated individually, in regional groups, or as an entire system. It’s imperative that you follow instructions given on the siren which you can hear, immediately and exactly.
Tooele County tests the siren system audibly every Wednesday at 4:00pm, and silently at least twice a day.

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