This sound effect can be found on Hanna-Barbera Sound Effects Library, which was made by Sound Ideas. This is the product, essentially identical to a mechanical siren, most often used for fire trucks and fairly often for ambulances.
Used In
TV Shows
- The Flintstones
- SpongeBob SquarePants (Heard once in "Wormy" & "Squid's Day Off" from a passing fire truck, and from an ambulance at the end of "Just One Bite." Also heard in connotation to fire--and thus fire trucks--in "Funny Pants" and "Squilliam Returns".)
- The Fairly OddParents (heard once from the firemen somehow in "The Land Before Timmy")
Movies
Volcano (1997) (heard from Engine 17, winding all of the way down as it crashes from a lava bomb and slides against the road)
Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) (heard after the ship crashes, following a resident claiming "I just bought a condo here!")