The Siren Board

For more siren action from Long Island, visit the website Long Island Fire Alarm. Lots of pictures, videos and sound clips.

By reading some of their forums, those firefighters are VERY passionate about their sirens. Some have even gotten mad over other fire companies disconnecting their sirens after caving in to the public's complaints over siren usage. I haven't visited the forums in awhile, but they could get pretty heated.

FedTB wrote:... By reading some of their forums, those firefighters are VERY passionate about their sirens. Some have even gotten mad over other fire companies disconnecting their sirens after caving in to the public's complaints over siren usage. I haven't visited the forums in awhile, but they could get pretty heated.

I'd be angry, too.
Wouldn't mind using pagers and radios for medical calls since there are too many: cut foot, hurt finger, stom.ache, etc.
But use siren for fires.

His forum has not been up for a long time. He wants people to donate to help with the costs to run his site (Just like any other guy trying not to lose too much out of his pocket for others). I would donate to here first, because I am not a real "Fire buff" myself, but more into sirens. Maybe I will, maybe not. The future is ahead of me, and I can't control a big part of it.

Adam Pollak wrote:Just an interesting side note in case none of you noticed, but that is a series B T-Bolt. The standpipe entering the rotator box is offset from the center.

Don't you mean "C" Series T-Bolt?

I thought the B series was single phase powered. ???

1000A's are three phase, 1000B's are single phase. (those A&B's aren series, they just denote power)

Series only appears on the tag on the siren.

Series A was the first Thunderbolt with the large cast iron blowers (1725 rpm)
Series B was the short lived and very rare Thunderbolt with C-face chopper motor, direct drive rotator, and possibly upright blower.
Series C is the same thing as series A, but with lighter aluminum blowers (3450 rpm) (although I have a series C blower thats upright, but on the standard blower frame)

Pyramid Head, those guys are volunteer firefighters, NOT fire buffs, who are into the same sirens that we are, just that their use is for fires and medical calls, whereas we're into the sirens' usage for air raids and tornadoes (and haz mat, hurricanes, tsunamis, terrorist attacks, etc.).

The videos on Long Island Fire Alarm show sirens being activated for tests and calls; pretty much the same kinds of videos of sirens that we watch, except for watching videos of siren tests we're also watching videos of sirens being activated for Tornado Warnings, too. So the two sites are kind of the same, in many ways.

Either way, you can get your fix of watching sirens on LIFA or many of the sites we're already familiar with.

Well put!! I am a Long Island Volunteer and FedTB is 100% correct about LIFA, sirens and the passion that exists to keep them running here in Suffolk and Nassau.

Cyrun, nice to meet another firefighter on the board!

I'm a career ff/medic outside of St. Louis. I've got 21-plus years on the job.

All I have to say is...(bows) "all hail the t-bolts" wish more of them were restored and put back into service in stead of being replaced by an inferior siren.Yes I know its more to maintain and upkeep. Until I moved out here to ND I never knew what the sirens were used and why they went off. I was only here a year, and I met my first t-bolt. I would scan it but its low quality pic taken at sunset. And now it was replaced with a 2001SRNB

They are both now officially fully in service. Used for alarms for the first time on Thursday.