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Photos from around Grand Coulee Dam

Tue May 19, 2015 4:30 pm

I went up to visit Grand Coulee Dam. It's not the biggest dam in the country, but it is America's largest power-producing facility. The local sirens are straight from the 1950's. I was driving around on my day off and was using my iPhone, so don't complain about the quality.

Here is one of the fire sirens in the town of Grand Coulee, which is above and behind the dam.
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This is at the fire station. My guess is that they used smaller sirens so as not to alert the people below the dam.
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This is the first thing you see as you round the corner at the base of the dam. This is the fire station of the town of Coulee Dam, and there is a large air horn underneath it. All of the Model 5's here are 12-port models.
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This one stands on the other side of the bridge, where most of the town lies.
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This is near the fire station at Elmer City, about a mile north of Coulee Dam.
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Mystery siren at the north end of Elmer City. I could not get closer without crossing private property, but it's probably a Model 5.
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Electric City is a mile south of the town of Grand Coulee and probably is on the same siren system. I didn't see any sirens there, but I found this a mile south of town in a rural area.
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Fire station at Blue Lake Resort, further south within the Grand Coulee. A coulee is a shallow, wide canyon.
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Fire station at Coulee City, 25 miles south of the towns of Grand Coulee and Coulee Dam (confused?).
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Fire station in Warden, nowhere near Grand Coulee.
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Re: Photos from around Grand Coulee Dam

Wed May 20, 2015 2:48 am

Neat looking towers on pictures 4 and 5

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