Sedgwick County Emergency Management will test the attack mode function of its 70-year-old Thunderbolt siren system on Monday. The attack mode function was last tested in 2015.

CHATHAM COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC) - CEMA is investigating a malfunctioning siren near Thunderbolt. No immediate danger has been identified by CEMA. This is a developing story. WTOC will provide updates as ...

Justin Birchfiel, who has saved and restored a Knoxville Thunderbolt air raid siren from Prosser and Buffat Mill roads, has said only three sirens remain from the Cold War era system that was ...

Wichita has the four oldest Thunderbolt sirens in the United States, installed in 1952 after then-President Harry Truman signed the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950. “Their original intent was ...

Others, like the huge Thunderbolt sirens at Vander and Gray’s Creek can be heard a mile away. Properly covering an area the size of Fayetteville, much less Cumberland County, would be expensive.

On April 22, 1952, the first-ever air raid siren test sounded in Wichita. Some of the oldest Thunderbolt sirens in the United States were still in use across Sedgwick County up until late last year.

That's because the Caledonia fire siren, a 1962 1003 air raid siren, Thunderbolt, was actually a civil defense siren. Last February, CFD retired the 50 year old siren and installed a new ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Jonathan Marr, the deputy director for Sedgwick County Emergency Management, joined “Kansas Today” on Monday, Feb. 27, to talk about Thunderbolt sirens. The sirens ...