Old siren restored in Pleasanton, CA

[Crazywarriorman]

Does anyone have any news, or a photo of the massive one Heath made for the Ferry Building awhile back? I remember it was nearly lost forever but somebody saved it.

[MattDean1003]

Was the Ferry Building siren the one that was destroyed? I recall it being a Heath siren. I think there was another siren that I remember reading about sounding on a bell tower many many years ago, that was a massive siren, possibly electronic(?) but could it have also been a Heath? That was possibly in Texas.

Sorry to mini-hijack, that wasn't my intentions.

[Sirenguy02]

The news piece for this:

http://www.contracostatimes.com/contrac ... pleasanton

In the 2nd video at the near bottom of the page, the camera craps out.

The camera didn't crap out, he just cut the sound off into sections.

[Daniel]

The Heath siren from the Ferry Building was restored and placed in the San Francisco Maritime Museum. It was not like the Pleasanton siren, but a huge thing that resembled an 8-foot long Sterling Model M. It could supposedly attain full volume instantly, and could be heard five miles across the bay in Oakland.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Blas ... 851707.php
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Ferr ... 876224.php

There was a second one like this built that Heath sent to London to warn of Zeppelin attacks in WWI. I wonder if that siren is still in existence.