eli5 Emergency Vehicle Sirens

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What do the different sirens heard from Emergency Vehicles mean? Such as Wail, Yelp, Priority, etc?

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They don’t mean anything.

The point is cycling through them is meant to be enough of a tonal change that people don’t tune out the normal siren. If they just used the standard wail a lot of people would likely automatically filter that sound out to some extent given how common sirens are.

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