Today’s fire tone is Allen Volunteer Fire Company’s EMS tone. What is a "fire tone"? Every active firefighter generally carries around a special audio pager that gets activated by "fire tones". Those fire tones are unique in pitch which allows for different fire departments, pagers, fire whistles, etc. to be activated. Each fire department has at least one set of fire tones, but most two, and Salisbury for example has multiple. The publishing of these tones are for entertainment and educational