Gresham, Oregon Fire Siren

[coastalsyrolover]

There are pairs of Buell horns at the fire stations in Amity and Millington (near Coos Bay), as well as a single one in Tygh Valley on a mechanic's garage that may have been a fire station. I suspect that these were bought from Portland's old system. These horns have two trumpets coming out of either side of a central diaphragm. Each horm had a 180° bend, and a second double horn was mounted above the first and turned 90° so the four horns pointed in four directions.

Sounds pretty. You had pictures of a couple of them right? Yea too bad only a few of them worked before the chryslers got put up. That's what years of neglect will do for you. (But you all already know that. )

[Daniel]

I've posted this before, but this is the single horn in Tygh Valley. The other sets have a second horn above the first, turned 90°.

[coastalsyrolover]

Did they have double diaphragms or just 1 for the 4 horns?

[Daniel]

I don't know whether these have one diaphragm or two. The four-horned ones are just two of these stacked on top of each other.

[LukeH]

Never heard of mounting a denver siren vertically. How was this done?

[Daniel]

They took a Denver siren and stood it on end, with the motor underneath, and mounted it to a tower.