The Siren Board

This is a picture of the Calgary, Alberta Fire Headquarters in 1960. There is a Sterling or Carter type siren on top of the hose tower.


Rotating CLM now on there in 1966.


Nothing up there in 2013

Just a friendly reminder of "wow, things have changed". So, do you know what they did with both sirens? I can imagine they scrapped the carter, but the CLM might still be there (fire departments keep their sirens sometimes, in storage, etc.)

Mark N wrote:Just a friendly reminder of "wow, things have changed". So, do you know what they did with both sirens? I can imagine they scrapped the carter, but the CLM might still be there (fire departments keep their sirens sometimes, in storage, etc.)

Impossible to say, as most CLM's were removed and scrapped in the 90s. It is possible that Carter-like siren was a remnant leftover of the WW2 air raid siren network across the country, and probably went the same route as the CLM's.

There is a rotating CLM still up in Leduc, Alberta. The only one I know of in Canada still standing outside of Toronto.
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Nothing up there in 2013


It looks like the Calgary Fire HQ has upped anchor, sailed into the financial district, with the shutters open (the gun ports) and is about to attack, just like the Crimson Permanent Assurance scene at the start of the Monty Python film The Meaning of Life.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZeOUI2zEbo

Thanks for posting this, really interesting. Most were scrapped in the 90's- early 2000's but there are still quite a few around, just hidden. Just two years ago I talked to an a small town/city in BC and they still had a system of CLMs (4-6 units) installed and had just contacted the DND to remove them, which they did. I discovered a Model 2 air raid siren in Mississauga ON last year on a major road basically in the middle of the city. There's not many left but they are scattered around.

Just to add to the cool photos, 20/24 port CLM on the old Clarkson ON fire hall:

Good lord that siren is massive.

In the first photo its defiantly a Carter.

The last time I was in Nelson, BC, about ten years ago, I counted three vertical CLM's.

Siren_Dude wrote:Thanks for posting this, really interesting. Most were scrapped in the 90's- early 2000's but there are still quite a few around, just hidden. Just two years ago I talked to an a small town/city in BC and they still had a system of CLMs (4-6 units) installed and had just contacted the DND to remove them, which they did. I discovered a Model 2 air raid siren in Mississauga ON last year on a major road basically in the middle of the city. There's not many left but they are scattered around.

Just to add to the cool photos, 20/24 port CLM on the old Clarkson ON fire hall:

Cool, is this Clarkson now part of Mississauga?

Model2 wrote:

Siren_Dude wrote:Thanks for posting this, really interesting. Most were scrapped in the 90's- early 2000's but there are still quite a few around, just hidden. Just two years ago I talked to an a small town/city in BC and they still had a system of CLMs (4-6 units) installed and had just contacted the DND to remove them, which they did. I discovered a Model 2 air raid siren in Mississauga ON last year on a major road basically in the middle of the city. There's not many left but they are scattered around.

Just to add to the cool photos, 20/24 port CLM on the old Clarkson ON fire hall:

Cool, is this Clarkson now part of Mississauga?

Yes it is, its amazing how the times change. The fire hall and whole area at that time is almost completely build over.