Ever since the linked clip was posted, when this time of year comes round I think about the people in that video and the sound of all of those PASS devices going off.
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PASS Devices: Wikipedia
Dr Mark Heath: CNN Transcript
I accept that this might not be the right community to share this.
Those PASS devices sound like a really creepy cricket noise almost when they chirp together but out of phase from each other.
It’s a sound that permeates much of the post-collapse footage; when a much younger and less experienced me first heard it, I thought it was car alarms - I didn’t connect it with the fate of hundreds of fire crew.
Here’s another clip that captures the “chirping”.