Quote Originally Posted by Jimaz View Post
...In case of attack, everyone's supposed to tune to 640 or 1240 kHz for further instructions....
This was a really smart idea. Those old cold warriors really thought these things out.

I just heard a story on the radio that explained the rationale for not sounding emergency sirens during the recent Hawaiian fires. The main reason for the sirens there is to warn people of a tsunami so people can run uphill, away from the coast. That is exactly the wrong thing to do during a wildfire. So the sirens were left silent and the fires caught them off guard.

It's wiser to train people to associate sirens with an as yet unspecified emergency requiring them to seek more information, e.g., from radio, before acting.