The Siren Board

Greetings all,

Recently while looking at a Michigan siren map, I came across an old Federal Electric Fedelcode type 5/7 in Buchanan, MI. There are no videos of it on YouTube and I cannot find any news articles or other forms of media about it online. It's got what looks like a fairly new and elaborate antenna and it has power going to it. Does anybody know if this siren is still active and tests with the rest of Berrien county? Here's the address of it: 107 W Front St, Buchanan, MI.

Thanks!

If you're referencing that antenna up top, that's likely an antenna for some city agency. Berrien County does not have a set test time outside of Niles, so it's either a fire call siren or a noon siren if it's still active. There were a few more like it around the area, however one was removed within the last couple of years.

nvanw27 wrote: ↑

Sun May 16, 2021 12:37 pm

If you're referencing that antenna up top, that's likely an antenna for some city agency. Berrien County does not have a set test time outside of Niles, so it's either a fire call siren or a noon siren if it's still active. There were a few more like it around the area, however one was removed within the last couple of years.

According to a post on Berrien county's website about Michigan's severe weather awareness week, the sirens the county controls test on the first Saturday of every month, they did not specify a time. Is that incorrect or are they only referring to Niles?

That would likely be the now-inactive system of Whelen Omnidirectionals once used by the Cook NPP. Niles is its own system, everything else is individually or locally controlled.