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Tue Jul 06, 2010 1:54 pm

In the town of Hampden MA there is a sterling k-5 siren, I read on their website that there is another siren. I`ve searched all over that town, driven around looking for it, using google`s street view and found nothing. Also in the town of Belchertown MA there is a siren that sounds noon, I was told it was on the fire station but I don`t see one there. I`m wondering if anybody knows where these 2 sirens are. any info would be appreciated.
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Tue Jul 06, 2010 10:56 pm

Some fire companies like to hide their siren what's called a bell tower, which is probably where the one in Belchertown MA is. Another example is Ligonier Boro Fire Co's(Westmoreland Station 43) 3t22 is hidden in their old station's bell tower.

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Wed Jul 07, 2010 12:38 am

I checked in there ( inside the bell tower) when I went there today, I heard it sound noon and it sounds like a model 2 but I saw a picture of it on their website and it looks like a sterling little giant. I looked near the station and on the old station but the siren is no where to be found. I`m hoping to go back to tomorrow to look more closely as today I was pressed for time. here is the link to history of the company, read the first paragraph http://www.belchertown.org/departments/ ... e_hook.htm here is the link to the picture of the old station with the siren on it, ironically inside the bell tower. http://www.belchertown.org/departments/ ... c-008f.htm
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Wed Jul 07, 2010 1:07 am

TBOLT1000 wrote:I checked in there ( inside the bell tower) when I went there today, I heard it sound noon and it sounds like a model 2 but I saw a picture of it on their website and it looks like a sterling little giant. I looked near the station and on the old station but the siren is no where to be found. I`m hoping to go back to tomorrow to look more closely as today I was pressed for time. here is the link to history of the company, read the first paragraph http://www.belchertown.org/departments/ ... e_hook.htm here is the link to the picture of the old station with the siren on it, ironically inside the bell tower. http://www.belchertown.org/departments/ ... c-008f.htm
That actually looks like a Sterling M series siren.
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Wed Jul 07, 2010 2:16 am

Here is the video that I took of the siren today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdJOilG3KNI
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Wed Jul 07, 2010 2:33 am

Sounds like a Single-Tone M.

*edit* Oops, Guess I have my siren sounds mixed up... :oops:
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Wed Jul 07, 2010 3:39 am

However, it has the wind down of a Model 2.
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Wed Jul 07, 2010 3:57 am

Allertor113 wrote:Sounds like a Single-Tone M.
Not even close....

It's a model 2 without a doubt.

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Wed Jul 07, 2010 4:13 am

JasonC wrote:
Allertor113 wrote:Sounds like a Single-Tone M.
Not even close....

It's a model 2 without a doubt.
Oops, I guess I have my siren sounds mixed up right now. :oops:
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Wed Jul 07, 2010 1:10 pm

JasonC wrote:
Allertor113 wrote:Sounds like a Single-Tone M.
Not even close....

It's a model 2 without a doubt.


That`s exactly what I thought but I saw something there that looked similar to a sterling 2V8. I only saw it for a second though. I`m going back tomorrow to look more closely. I think it is either a model 2 that was put up when the new station was built in 1998 or it is a sterling 2V8 that was somewhere else on a pole in town and that was removed and restored and is now serving as the main fire siren because the old sterling "m" no longer worked which is unlikely.
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