Yes that IS a Gamewell Diaphone. It's the only blue one I've ever seen. Right next door on a pole is a Model 5 - ALSO painted blue. It has a mesh screen over its throat to keep the bugs and birdies out. From what I've heard (mostly from the Central PA fire board), it has a rather unpleasant note. Cl...

i can understand how some of you are enthusiastic about sirens but you need to understand somerthing about this one: The one on the corner of wellwood ave and 17th street is in a residential neighborhood. It is within 50 feet of some peoples homes.I myself live about 3 houses away from it. It has g...

That Fedelcode needs to get some RustOleum on it and soon, before the vanes rot away.

There have been a number of posts and threads over the last few years which have been lamenting the replacement of the Thunderbolts across America with electronic sirens. Well, here on Long Island, in one mid-size district, the tables have been turned. The East Farmingdale Fire Department has put th...

Sirens can go off randomly for many reasons. Reminds me of back in my childhood, we were staying at my Grandmother's house in Washington DC when a Thunderbolt 1000T went off a couple blocks away (from 9th and "D" Street NE) at 10:15pm. It was a frightening sound to this 7-year-old. I could...

That SD-10 - is that on private property? Right next door to somebody's house...it looks like the homeowner put it there.
Nice picture of the Cyclone too - those are ominous-looking creatures.

NYC had HOR sirens exclusively - in three sizes: 3hp, 5hp and 10hp. The 3hp was a knock-off of the Federal Model 2; the 10hp looked so much like the Federal 7.5hp model that it was very hard to tell them apart. The one that looked different was the 5hp model you see in the two photos. The second pho...

I don't know about Ely, but these are the ones I grew up with. They are still there but rarely used. They are wrapped with heat cable, but sometimes they would blow a puff of mist on cold days. http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2006-1/1134256/Mt.Shastahornscloseuptiny.JPG Wow, that's an impressive rac...

Hacksaw wrote:That's also like the one at saw at the Ely, Nevada Fire Dept 30+ years ago. They used a horn for the codes, though.

Might that Horn have been a Diaphone?

EL1998P71 wrote:
Looks like a jet engine

And it's as loud as one too.