The Siren Board

I want to know where you have seen sirens mounted and by this I mean where can I look in towns for sirens. Of coarse there is the usuals Police Stations, Fire Stations, court houses, city halls, borough buildings but I'd like to know where you guys have seen sirens located.

Here in southwest missouri most sirens are placed about a mile apart. If you can find one siren, look for another one about a mile away. Google earth is very helpful as it comes with a ruler.

Our 2001 SRNBs and WPS 3016s in Fife are mounted on relatively low wooden poles (approximately 25-30' off the ground). The Modulator 6048's in the other main cities (Puyallup, Sumner, Orting), including Fife, are mounted on much higher wooden poles. However, the westernmost siren in the system, a Modulator 1004 in Fife, is mounted on a small building approximately 10-15' off the ground.

At the Washington State Fair (Puyallup Fair) in Puyallup, there's a Modulator 4016 mounted on a metal pole within the Fair boundaries. On top of the Grandstand Building (above the EXPO Center) resides a Whelen WPS 3016 (the highest mounted siren in the system)! Just north of the Fair, on the Puyallup Fire Station, is a Fedelcode Model 5A. It is mounted on a platform on top of the Fire station. *This specific siren has had many problems with its bearings in the past.*

That's pretty much it around here. I loved how diverse the system is around here.

In Kendall/Will County, they are mounted on standard/green treated(for newer ones) poles ~30-40 feet up. Also, the P-50's are mounted on steer poles. As for spacing, in residential Areas, about 1-2.5 miles apart. In the more rural areas, they are pretty far and in between (really because they are mainly P-50's). Other than these, there is a recently discovered roof mounted Model 5 on an old fire station on Des Plains Rd. in Downtown Plainfield. It is unknown if it is active, as the station is only actively used as the Boy Scout's location. Despite this, the siren looks to have been painted recently.

This is for where I live:
In urban areas here, sirens are pretty much always mounted on a roof of a building. In the more rural areas, this is still evident; however pole mounting is more common. In even more spacious areas, pole mounting is widely used.

The maple grove system consists of enlarged fire truck sirens (Fs 2001-130s) mounted on telephone poles about 25-35 feet up. There are about 16 in the city and they are mounted in a somewhat of a grid pattern.

Around here, they are usually mounted at places that are already owned by the Government (such as fire stations, parks, and schools), but they'll occasionally be mounted at private properties and along streets. Most of them are pole mounted, but there are a few sirens within the system that are mounted on the roofs of buildings.

Since I'm from New England, most of the sirens I see are mounted on the roofs of fire or police stations. That seems to be a common practice around here.

Don't forget that lots of places mount sirens on top of schools or on school property.

About the only place a siren would not be mounted in America would be inside a church steeple. In some countries like Switzerland, however, they do this. In this video about the bell ringer of the Orthodox cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria, a Russian S-40 siren is mounted on the ringers' platform.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHV5h7XRIJo