The Siren Board

Full version of my profile picture. Sentry 10V in Berkeley Springs, WV at South Morgan VFD. I grew up hearing this siren, and its elegant B-flat wail is warming and nostalgic to me. On another note, I'm not sure whether the decal on the parking lot says "No parking lane fire" or "Fire lane parking no."


Long-defunct and naked single-sided Sterling in Berkeley Springs, WV on a factory-turned-shop building. There's an active 8-16 port M-10 fire siren across the street on an elevator shaft.


Fedelcode Model 5 in Paw Paw, WV. Active for fire calls.


Sentry 7V8 or 3V8-H in Shawnee Land, VA.


Defunct ACA Screamer S-10, dual tone, on my work commute in Reynolds Store, VA.

uncommonsense wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 26, 2019 10:47 pm

That's just an outstanding photo by any metric, sirokat

Thank you so much! It was almost surreal seeing that in person!

I have another to add to the list, my hometown's ol' KM-Europ 1kW (yes, 1kW, that's about it) siren, this thing roared to life last Wednesday, and I'd say it's both looking and sounding scary.

Freshly installed by Table Rock Alerting Systems. Federal Thunderbolt 1000BT

The ACA Cyclone 125 in Williams Bay is my personal fav. Sadly it got disconnected years ago.

I need to find all of my siren photos and get them all in one place, they be scattered! But right now I'd have ti say it's this one, all the shapes, the (edited) lighting and the way it looks...I just like it a lot.

EOWS1212 Clermont JPEG-6 by mrboojay, on Flickr

With this one being a close second ATM.

Sentry 10V next to Metal Halide spots by mrboojay, on Flickr

When I went to Chicago, I got some photos of sirens along the highway. Here’s my favorite one, a sentry in Lebanon, Indiana, with lots of clouds.

Cookeville's Federal Signal Model 5A

Thunderbolt 1000T, bonus with motion blur! (Taken from 2016 Toyota Corolla LE whilst going around 60 MPH.)

2001-AC