Model 5 in Attack...on long island

[Truckie6119]

I live in Farmingdale and i can here melville on a clear night. I think they also have a red sth-10 on a pole at rt 110 and maxis rd.

[PhRed]

I'm able on a good day to pick up:

Definitely: Woodbury(Syosset??) and Commack

Maybe: Cold Spring Harbor, East Northport, Huntington Village and Halesite

Debatable: Greenlawn


BTW:

I remember many times hearing a rather distant cluster of sirens (3 or 4) going off at once (apropos of Dave Fritz's question), One of them seems to be a low-tone Federal 7 and another has a quick windup that sounds like the siren in the video we're discussing here.

[AlarmRepair]

Fire departments on L.I. have anywhere from 3 to 10 sirens per district depending on population and also many have horns thrown into the mix as well. They all sound at the same time. Here is a good example of Northport FD on a fire call.. Model2, Model 5, 2T22, Screamer and diaphone. http://brettswebsite.com/horns_sirens.wma

[PhRed]

Plus, in the county west of me (Nassau), the number of Diaphones and other horns increases almost astronomically. It seems that 90% of all departments there have one.

Suffolk has one in the following to my knowledge:

Northport, Eatons Neck, Center Moriches, Shirley, Saltaire.

[Rheems1]

There are also ALOT of Diaphram horns on Long Island, I love Diaphram horns an awful, awful lot. Before getting on Long Island Fire Alarm, I never cared for air powered horns. Since getting on thier and looking around and listening to some of the sound files... I am in love with alot of the horns now. I will admit that it is mostly Diaphram type horns, I am slowing working my way into liking Diaphones. I will say, the one that still excites me to listen to is the one from Manhasset-Lakeville Company 5.. a pair of number 4 Diaphram horns (1 high tone and 1 low tone)... what a sound..... I am so totally in love with that! I really have to come up and visit Long Island.... it is on my plans....maybe find someone from Manhasset-Lakeville #5 so that I may hear them in person. As a side note, even if I don't get to hear those horns... there is tons and tons of money on Long Island... and that just makes me come to the conclusion that there HAS to be nice appratus out there as well!

Dave Fritz

[PhRed]

We LI'ers would be glad to have you visit us.

One word of advice, though, is be wary of tall, pole-mounted structures that look like whitewashed, abstract beehives.

These, as you may be have guessed by now, are the Federal Signal Company-manufactured P's of S. known as Modulators, which are making slow, yet continuous encroachments upon fire districts Island-wide.

When you see one and should you be lucky enough to hear it go off, don't even bother stopping your ears. Matter of fact, you can prolly stand within 100 feet and enjoy its none-too-loud, not-at-all-intimidating, hauntingly sea-sick dronings.

Weep at the beautiful timbre of its magnificently bogus Westminster chimes that sound like a feral wolf-child auditioning for a Jamaican steel drum ensemble.

To be sure, I have no doubt that your area, too, is plagued with these beasts (or about to be); but we up here take especial exception to the complete havoc they've wrought upon our collective childhoods.

(And on a serious note, they pretty much do the same upon the average fireman and/or dispatcher's ability to alert potential fire victims to the fact that help is, indeed, on the way. A half-dozen Modulators simply cannot do the job that *one* electro-mechanical model---pick any one you want---can. I'll bet that even a dysfunctional Model 2 standing right next to one of these posers can totally depant it on a clear, crisp sunny day...with ambient traffic noise, yet.)

So the next time you hear one of your beloved horns suddenly (and in a most unwelcome way) accompanied by a sound that might remind you of a Star Wars droid with emphysema, call to mind this humble poster's sage advice.

[Rheems1]

Ohhh man.... you are killing me!!! Throw me under the bus... but *starts to mumble as to not be understood* I sort of like the Modulator. *stops mumbling* We have that problem with what appear to black "birdhouses"... they are made by the Whelen company and are MUCH more worthless than your whitewashed beehives. In all seriousness though, I don't really have a problem with the Modulators... than again we don't have any around me... so it is like a new toy... one that still fascinates me for some reason. I have seen enough Whelen's to last me a life time and I feel exactly the same way about them as you do about the Modulators. I would really love to come to Long Island... I would mostly be coming to photograph fire apparatus. Can you suggest an area where there is alot of nice apparatus, friendly firefighters and some decent sirens (by the way, if I see enough Modulators I am sure I will start to hate them as well).

Dave

[PhRed]

I'm not connected in any way to any fire department; but I can steer you to where there seem to be nice collections of sirens.

Port Jefferson in Northeast Suffolk county- Has a 2t22 at the HQ (a rather rare creature for our overall area) and a *low-tone Sterling M* (how's that for rare???) at the nearby Terryville firehouse.

I believe Zetronist can speak better for Center Moriches, which has (I think) a three-toned Diaphragm. It used to have a model 2t; but now it has mostly 2's plus an HOR(?) model 5 (sounds like a 2 but has two skirts like a 3/5/7) at HQ's.

There's also Melville as I mentioned before and, as previously discussed, my own FD that once had 2 M-10's. So cool.

On the LIFA site, you'll also hear clips of multiple (2+) sirens from the following municipalities:

Northport Village, East Northport, Centerport, Eaton's Neck (*real* cool one of the system from 4 miles out across LI Sound) Farmingdale, Roslyn, Albertson, Carle Place, Williston Park (one from *six* miles away in the village of West Hempstead) and Mineola.

These BTW are genuine. A possible mock-up job is the first of the four Farmingdale clips.

PS: Their message board contains a small handful of extra clips as well. There's one message with a clip from New Jersey with a Diaphragm(?) a model 5 and a distant 2.

And to top it all off, the Nassau County section of clips/photos has soundbytes of **Plenty** of your favorite non-siren noisemakers.