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Ritzville, Wa city sirens. (FS 12-port 5A, 9-port ED Bullard)

Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2019 8:02 pm
by Snowblind
Hello everyone. Long time siren enthusiast here. I don't have much history on these two beauties yet. They both sound at noon every day with a 5 second blast. I have lived here for close to 30 years and not once has either siren failed. Controllers have failed twice in that time. Both failures signaled the sirens into a 3 minute alert for the noon whistle. The ED Bullard on top of the decommissioned water tower was refurbished sometime in the mid to late 90's. I remember seeing an article in the local paper. Ritzville also had a third siren on top of the old city hall. I found only one picture with a quick search on Google. I believe it was a Sterling M10. I'm in the process of finding someone with knowledge of what happened to the siren when it was removed during a remodel around 2002.

ED Bullard

Sorry for the bad recording...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eudWDDwN_Iw

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Model 5A



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPEfNMcKejA

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City Ambiance



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQWiQCQ1kmc


Third Siren M10

top right hand side.
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Re: Ritzville, Wa city sirens. (Model 5A, 9-port ED Bullard)

Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2019 10:18 pm
by Snowblind
A thunderstorm rolled over town Sunday morning. A lightning strike triggered the Fire attack signal.
The noon siren test was disabled the following two days, but have since been reactivated.
Enjoy!!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMkxsueAGcw

Re: Ritzville, Wa city sirens. (Model 5A, 9-port Siro Drone)

Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2019 2:29 am
by JasonC
That's a great condition Model 5, very cool!

Re: Ritzville, Wa city sirens. (Model 5A, 9-port Siro Drone)

Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2019 5:15 pm
by TNSirens
Looks like they may have took the top part of the water tower and put it over the chopper, maybe? It also looks like the Model 5A has a newer power switch. Makes me happy they take very good care of these sirens. :D

Re: Ritzville, Wa city sirens. (Model 5A, 9-port EDBullard)

Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 7:22 pm
by Snowblind
Both sirens were tended to in the mid-late 90's. I also found out the city did have a Sterling M-10, and nobody seems to know what happened to it after it was taken down.

Re: Ritzville, Wa city sirens. (Model 5A, 9-port Siro Drone)

Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2019 4:28 pm
by coastalsyrolover
Looks like my motorcycle and I have a destination to go see... I’ll have to listen again but that Sirodrone sounds like it’s actually got 8 ports? Maybe it is a 9 though.

Re: Ritzville, Wa city sirens. (Model 5A, 9-port ED Bullard)

Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2019 6:08 pm
by Snowblind
I think a lot of people would thank you!! I don't have the proper equipment to record the awesomeness of these two sirens.

Re: Ritzville, Wa city sirens. (Model 5A, 9-port Siro Drone)

Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 4:29 am
by Jared H
I really don't think the nine-port thing is a Siro Drone. If anything, it may be one of those old Westinghouse sirens that was speculated upon here many eons ago. https://www.airraidsirens.net/forums/vi ... hp?t=14376 Regardless, it's nice to see more of these floating around.

Re: Ritzville, Wa city sirens. (Model 5A, 9-port ED Bullard)

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 5:17 pm
by Snowblind
Quick update. It is a ED Bullard.

Re: Ritzville, Wa city sirens. (Model 5A, 9-port Siro Drone)

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 5:22 pm
by Synther
We already know what siren it is. It was made by a company called Weltex out in California. There's more information on the Siren Enthusiasts group on Facebook and possibly on here as well