The Siren Board

Here are some pictures of various sirens I came across on the way to Lubbock a couple of days ago. I didn't stop by all the sirens in each of the towns I passed through, otherwise the trip would have taken forever. I just stopped by the ones I could see off the highway. I also went by the remaining decommissioned Thunderbolts in Lubbock.

Runaway Bay, TX
I'm not sure if this Allertor is actually owned and operated by Runaway Bay or not but it is close by.


Olney, TX
I came across a horizontal siren on top of their City Hall and a Thunderbolt 1003 in an alley off HWY 114. Olney also has a couple of 3T22s, and Allertor, and a T-128 which I did not get any pictures of.

Federal Signal Type B



Thunderbolt 1003



Seymour, TX
I spotted one of Seymour's Sentry 10Vs and grabbed a couple of pictures of it. Seymour has 4 of these along with a Model 7 in the center of town.




Benjamin, TX
I spotted a Banshee on top of the Knox County Courthouse. Nearby is another horizontal siren with a Model L mounted on the same platform by the VFD.

Banshee



Federal Signal Type B/Model L





Perspective shot


Dickens, TX
Spotted a very high mounted STH-10 which is the only siren in Dickens. This town isn't big enough to really need more than this coverage-wise.


Crosbyton, TX
I spotted an SD-10 by the fire dept heading into town. Crosbyton also has an Erick, STH-10, and a Motorola electronic siren.





Lubbock, TX
Lubbock used to operate a system of Thunderbolts but decided to stop using them and have just let them sit, most of them still connected to power. They looked to be in pretty good shape cosmetically and since they're still mounted and sealed I'd imagine they look pretty good inside as well. There was a proposal to get a new system of sirens a couple of years back, but it was voted down and put on the back burner. Maybe one of these days they'll wake up and realize that Reverse 911 is only part of a complete warning system along with outdoor warning sirens and NOAA weather radios.
http://lubbockonline.com/local-news/201 ... -has-faded

Gary Ave. and 69th St. (in alley)





Service disconnect still on



Avenue A and 50th St.

Still connected to power.




1155 E 24th St.



Disconnected




Bullet Holes




University Ave. and 3rd St. (Just northeast of the Texas Tech campus)
I was in for a surprise when I saw this one. The head is gone but the standpipe and controls are still there and it is connected to power. I wasn't able to tell if the blower was still there or not but according to recent satellite imagery it appears to still be in place.

Old abandoned fire station


Here are a couple of streetview pictures of this siren when it was still complete. The paint was pretty bad on this one.


Blower still in place.

Great pictures! I wonder why that old Thunderbolt was removed. And also, can you post the location of the Motorola Siren in Crosbyton, TX? I'm interested in seeing it on Street View.

Synther wrote:Great pictures! I wonder why that old Thunderbolt was removed. And also, can you post the location of the Motorola Siren in Crosbyton, TX? I'm interested in seeing it on Street View.

I am interested too!

Nice photos all around. I believe the two horizontal sirens are Federal Type Bs, albeit from different years.

Synther wrote:And also, can you post the location of the Motorola Siren in Crosbyton, TX? I'm interested in seeing it on Street View.

Here's a couple of screenshots of it on streetview. I think SirenkiD has some actual pictures of it.

Here's the streetview location.
https://goo.gl/maps/U2vnaasEhPk

I'm glad y'all enjoyed the pictures! I was worried some of them might not have come out too great since my phone doesn't zoom too well.

Nice pictures. Olney has a pretty decent system of mixed Federal and ACA products, though I don't know when the last time they were used was. Tbolt might have a broken rotator.

Crosbyton has an SD10, 2T22, STH-10, Sterling thing, and Motorola. Other towns that have a Motorola in W Texas are Silverton and Wheeler.



The Tbolt removed from station 4 in Lubbock is going to a park as some kind of art piece or something. They wanted to use it in the poor part of town as a warning siren. They didn't take the blower. I have pics of this unit and controls from a few years ago when it was installed.

Runaway Bay owns and activates the Allertor there, and they do test it regularly as it's often pointed different directions. It came from Arlington or Fort Worth back in 2005 around the time the Bellvue Allertor appeared.

I have an .xml file for google earth of all sirens in west Texas. Probably well over 1000 unique locations, including Amarillo.

BTW Texas Tech has a 7, 2 model 2s, STH, and 2 OA-2s.

The Model A actually looks to be a Model L/RX, due to the large skirt/cylindrical intake. Quite the siren hunt!

I went on a trip to Norman, OK recently, and I drove through a very small out-of-the-way town called Sadler, TX. They have an XT22

Nice pics. It' a shame Lubbock just stopped using them. That city is too big to not have an outdoor warning system.