Wayne County(MI) Sirens ****Pic's added 5-31-08****

[adtbolt07]

500at
First off, The siren located at the Plymouth City Hall is a 12 port, Federal Model 5A, and used to be run for fire and tornado alerting. They even used it to announce the start of the July 4th parade, but I am not certain if it's even operable any longer.

I live in Plymouth, and am almost positive this siren is no longer active, although it is still mounted at city hall. Plymouth currently is all Thunderbolts, except for this siren(inactive) and one FS 2001 at the municipal yard. My theory is that a few years ago when the city looked into replacing the Model 5, they decided to place it in a new, most likely more effective, position, which is the municipal yard. The municpipal yard is roughly a half mile or so from city hall.

[EL1998P71]

Here's some more middle/southern Wayne count sirens I took pic's of this past sat.


Woodhaven




Riverview




Lincoln Park

City Hall




Emmons Rd and Fort St.




Melvindale





Westland?

Venoy Rd and Marquette



Canton Township.

Better pic of the Ridge Rd and Warren Rd T-128

[EOWS812]

I belive theres a recording of that EOWS 612 on youtube

[siren fan]

Wow the yellow really stands out in the snow! Not hard finding it.

[500AT]

The Thunderbolt at Canton FD #2 is rather low mounted and it looks like it is mounted to the building.

I was just talking to a firefighter who lives in Canton, and he told me that the original three Thunderbolts, were installed by the DPW. They were located at the old Canton Twp. Fire Stations 1 & 2, and the DPW building on Geddes Road, just west of US-12. However, the later additions in Canton Twp. were installed by a professional contractor, which explains the higher mounting on utility poles.

[500AT]

I live in Plymouth, and am almost positive this siren is no longer active, although it is still mounted at city hall. Plymouth currently is all Thunderbolts, except for this siren(inactive) and one FS 2001 at the municipal yard. My theory is that a few years ago when the city looked into replacing the Model 5, they decided to place it in a new, most likely more effective, position, which is the municipal yard. The municpipal yard is roughly a half mile or so from city hall.

This would make complete sense. I know in the past, several of the downtown businesses complained that the Model 5 was too loud, and that since all the firefighters have pagers, there is no need to run it for fire alerting. However, they wanted a downtown siren for storm warnings. Maybe the FS 2001 being placed at Plymouth Municipal Yard was a compromise?

[siren fan]

That's neat in the first few pics where they used existing building sides to mount the sirens.

[AllSafe]

Aren't those Whelens rather old?

[EL1998P71]

They look it! Maybe first editions?

[EL1998P71]

I was back in canton today for the 1st of the month test(siren failed to activate, I notified canton via phone), But I didn't want to waste the trip.
So I took new pic's of the 1003 at cherry hill and haggerty rd's.









After that I went back down US-12 to the Kay Beard Building. Here's some better pic's of that siren





The I went down middlebelt rd. and spotted this Fedelecode ontop of the building in the Avis rent a car lot.





And lastly, after driving around for a bit, I was going up Grand River Ave. and I passed by the Detroit FD with the new 2001-SRNB on it. But this one is unique.

I call it 2001-Thunderbolt






This is the only new Detroit 2001 set up this way.