ARCHIVED: Mystery Sirens (2008-3/2021)

[FunnelVortex]

Winters, Tx
is this an old denver or something?
http://goo.gl/maps/XMyXh

Looks like an Allertor without the horn.

[murrfarms]

Winters, Tx
is this an old denver or something?
http://goo.gl/maps/XMyXh

Yes, definitely a Denver siren. You can really tell from both this angle and this angle too.

[FunnelVortex]

Winters, Tx
is this an old denver or something?
http://goo.gl/maps/XMyXh

Yes, definitely a Denver siren. You can really tell from both this angle and this angle too.

Never heard of Denver sirens.

[uncommonsense]

Then maybe you should take the initiative to go learn about them.

[holler]

The search button is your friend.

[turtlbrdr]

Alright, got one for you guys. Sitting in the middle of town, I just noticed this last week (embarrassing to say it took me 7 months to do so). This one is on top of a water tower that is certainly older than time itself.

I have my hunches that it might be an old darley, sentry, or federal but the top part of it (which honestly looks to me like the top part of a steel beer keg)doesn't look like anything that I have note of.

This siren isn't on any map, or very likely to have been in use for decades.

I worry that it might not be, but on top of that tower, what else would have that kind of design?

If this is a siren, there are plans to by the town committee to restore and beautify the area (cultural heritage site), I might be able to acquire it during the proceedings. Would anyone have any idea how much it might cost me to get this thing down? And how much this "beer keg" would be worth?

Thanks in advanced

[turtlbrdr]

That looks about right. I'm surprised the little (figuratively) thing's still up there. No siren map has it listed, and like I said in the post, I only found it last week.

As for getting it down, it may be, quite literally, out of my reach. I might take a look though, i know recently oregon had another siren replaced. Interestingly, it was in a parking lot behind a the buildings I was standing in front of to take these pictures. But this is likely twice the height of the one that was removed last year. I will have to see what the village has planned for the tower.

I know the building beneath it is under plans for renevation into a community heritage site, so that may include some work done to the tower as well. I will meet with my public works guy on Monday. Though, I don't think he even knows about it.

I'm going to have to speak to the Dane County EMA soon as well. A LOT of sirens are getting replaced. A old Siratone 1212 was taken down near my grandparents place; and just today I saw that the next closest siratone 612 (down the way a little bit) was replaced with a Federal 508. I'm going to have to see what's happening. Maybe they're just doing Madison's, maybe I could score my town's 3T22?

Thank you for your help!

PS: There's a siren in Stoughton on nobody's maps as well!

[DJ2226]

I'm going to have to speak to the Dane County EMA soon as well. A LOT of sirens are getting replaced. A old Siratone 1212 was taken down near my grandparents place; and just today I saw that the next closest siratone 612 (down the way a little bit) was replaced with a Federal 508. I'm going to have to see what's happening. Maybe they're just doing Madison's, maybe I could score my town's 3T22?

Hmm, I wonder if their Perf+ Penetrators are being replaced too. Would be nice to score some and have them restored. They are pretty much 3 phase RM-130s.

[turtlbrdr]

They may be safe for now, but I don't get out to Verona (The only town that still has any) to check in a while; bear in mind the only ones being replaced are really old models. Allertors, Siratone FS 612 & 1212's. And the only ones I know of that have been changed up were in Madison with the exception of Oregon's Allertor, but consider that since Oregon put that in the town has expanded significantly, but only in the direction that the allertor covered.

Oregon's thunderbolt, as the public works manager relayed to me, is safe for now with no foreseeable plans to swap it out (Plus as my video of it show it still works wonders!) and that sits in an area of town that was bordered on one side of HWY 14, blocking expansion that way, and the other side was covered by the allertor, but since the recent addition of the Bergemont housing developments a new solution out that way was needed.

As it seems right now, the only ones being replaced are in madison proper, but I will have to find out. I would love to have my hand on many of the choice sirens around the area (Oregon's Thunderbolt 1003, Brooklyn's 3T22, and maybe a perf+penetrator or 2).

I'll learn more about it in the next couple of days, if I find out anything interesting I'll be making a topic on it.

[Rheems1]

Here is a picture of the fire siren at the Wrightsville, Pa Fire Department in Warren County, Pa... I have no idea what it is, it doesn't look like anything I have ever seen before?? What is it?? LOL