Fire Station Alerting Horns, Farmington NH

[JonnyD4667]

My city has a similar horn system---------i have a video of it from my house if you wanna watch it, just go to my channel

[joshuamarcus1]

Holy hell!! I could just imagine the complaints you guys must get on those horns! We have an "air raid" type siren system (that is not very loud) that goes off for fire dispatches only. Any other type of dispatch the county hits our alternate tones for alert without the siren and we hear complaints on that when it goes off.

[CL137626]

Those don't sound like gamewells.

[roadrebel94]

Smiths Grove Kentucky Volunteer Fire Department has a horn system we dont use it any longer but we do still have it installed

[djsmexyy]

Clinton NY has this type of siren, makes you jump outta yer skin.

[cripticgatekeep]

Out here in Victor Montana we have something similar to your system. Our pagers have the same beeping tone. But when our pagers go off the siren on top of the hall start going off.

[HankySpanky51]

Holy Crap !!!

[CForks2]

look up fairmount fire dept

[CForks2]

theres a few

[boeing63]

diaphone

[sport1mandi]

i live in pennsylvania and we have this system. i live about 70 yds away from our town horn. it goes off one time and then the fire sirens go off. lately kids have been repeatedly hitting the horn around 2 in the morning and i am getting really agitated by it. it just went again.

[perpetualmotion192]

i think that uxbridge MA uses them. My dad mention it when he went down for the mill fire a few years back.

[Trollbro1]

The Westwood Vol Fire Dept also use the horn system in there fire Dept. This Dept is located in Lassen county In Northern calif and there system is still active .

[SCFire980]

Painted Post Fire Dept., New York has a loud horn blast. I found out one day because they have a stupid traffic light out in front about 100 ft. away. Well, one day it went off while I was waiting for the light to turn Green. I about shit my pants that summer day with my windows rolled down when it went off. OMG!

[PlausableApple4]

Sweet!

[roxxma]

Burlington, MA had the same system well into the Seventies, when it went to an all professional force. They used the horn into the 90s to signal school cancellations.

[fireeater999cmcc]

That is REALLY cool!!!

[FFTeagan]

the paging tones are sweet

[airraidsiren]

Sounds like a matched pair of 8" Cunningham Air Whistles, probably sold to the FD by Federal.

[jtd321]

The Town of Bar Harbor, Maine has a System like this with 2 horns, except i'm pretty sure they don't go off for a alarm anymore, They go off at 12PM and 9PM every day.

[KetchupAndMustard55]

@jtd321

LOL, I was just in bar harbor and I heard the 12:00 Horn, it was pretty loud.

[Spaceshotx7]

The horn in this video does sound loud. Would this horn hurt your ears from over 350ft away or even 500ft away? What fire stations use these horns?

[Camaroson2008]

thats cool dude. i got a minitor 2 also

[dudleyFF1018]

Dudley MA still has this type of system

[firepower782]

That's wild. Really cool.

[NEXT300]

What does the radio say before the horn sounds? its sorta distorted

[FarmingtonNHFire]

@NEXT300 Attention all Farmington Fire monitors, respond to your station for an incoming box alarm. (repeat)

[HardDriveGuru]

This sounds eerily similar to the fire alarms at school! I like these better though - they're of a higher quality.

[Firfighter80]

did u set the fire alarm off at ur own station just to video tape this

[FarmingtonNHFire]

@Firfighter80 No we did not.

[FarmingtonNHFire]

@Firfighter80 It was the reception of a dept. members wedding, it was kindof our own "wedding church bells" if you will. We sent out a disregard announcment over the radio before doing this.

[BGVAC31]

Horns sound just like Midland Parks Fire Department, NJ horns, though i am not sure it does or did the box alarming. Boy do i miss the sound. I think there was a delay on the horns when dispatch pressed the button because it would sync with the siren, like when the Federal Siren wind down the horns would go 4-5 times until the siren was ready to wind back up and do the process for about a minute or so. I miss it, use to have a recording of it on Long Island Fire Alarm but the site got hacked :(

[Teleman73]

@BGVAC31

Midland Parks Horns are Leslie A-200s. They are currently out of service, but the compressor is being replaced and they will be working again.

[BGVAC31]

@Teleman73 Thanks a lot Teleman73, it's good to hear there going to be replacing the compressor on it. My grandfather is a member at MPFD and i remember the horns when i was little. Which we had a horn where i am, most towns around us have gamewell diaphones but ares is in the glass case in our social room :(, but thanks a lot for the info, maybe if your from there possibly get a recording once they fix it?

[BGVAC31]

@BGVAC31 Wish**** we had a horn, lol

[BGVAC31]

Horns sound just like Midland Parks Fire Department, NJ horns

[bbgb113]

Check out Fairport, New York Volunteer FD they have a horn type box system as well.

[Heyde1979]

I love a fire dept that still blows the box number out

[xthemwordx]

so how exactly does the coding work. how can you tell what the numbers are.

[FireLt4104]

the horns sound out the same way the tapper on a punch tape or a house bell sounds out. For example, Box 135 would sound one blast, a 5 second pause, then 3 blasts, a 5 second pause, then 5 blasts followed by a 10 second pause. then it would repeat this same cycle 2 or 3 more times depending on a departments policy.

[xthemwordx]

ok. i was thinking something like that, but i think i just couldn't count. that's cool. thanks for explaining.

[FarmingtonNHFire]

@FireLt4104 Exactly correct, ours sound four times (the same number of times the old telegraph code wheels turn coincidentally)

[Audinos]

These are probably Cunningham Air Whistles installed by Federal Signal sometime in the 40's. These were very popular in northern California and some are still in use.

[FireLt4104]

We had the same thing in Newington, NH it was a tied in with the Keltron, a box tripped in and it would blast the horns for 4 rounds of the box. It was loud enough I could hear it at night when I lived in Atlantic Heights in Portsmouth! the pager would trip, and i would listen while i got dressed to count out the blasts...When a box like 178 or 197 rang in, it woke EVERYONE in town. There was also a pull cord on the actuator valve that you could pull to manually sound the horns.

[FireLt4104]

The same circuit that allowed the keltron card to send the signal to the tapper activated the valve coming from the compressed air tank to the horns. the air tank was HUGE, at least 12 feet tall and 3.5 feet in diameter. Very similar to the Diaphone system.

[FarmingtonNHFire]

Yup, we have the same size air tank, and used to have a cord operated valve as well. Sounds like an almost identical system. Thanks for your input.

[98Crownvic]

reminds me of Oriskany NY.. "home"

[smhklb]

Monsey, Rockland County, NY used to have something that sounded like this. Don't know if they still do. Haven't lived near there for over 21 years now.

[Farricelli]

Deerfield (NY) Fire Dept. uses horns, don't know if they're electronic or not.

[wtb3nkfd54]

Union Fire District in South Kingstown RI has horns on 7 out of 8 stations, 4 of them are non-diaphone.

Double set on Wakefield station, single horns on West Kingston, Tuckertown and Matunuck stations. Diaphones on Peace Dale (double) Tower Hill (single) and Snug Harbor (single) stations.

[murpro7]

Northport Fire dept on long island,NY has same exact thing

[chevman4]

are these blast regularely

[HRPSonline]

Do a search on YouTube for "Royersford Fire" or "Royersford Humane" and contact the person who posted those videos. That station (Montgomery County, PA station 84) or the other Royersford station (Montgomery County station 85) has a 'horn alert system'. Hope that helps ya.

[trucker1290]

SWEET

[FarmingtonNHFire]

Yeah, I love how you can hear the blasts roll across the valley.

[zanjani13]

awesome vid man 5*