Saltaire F.D. Diaphone horn - 1 long blast for noon, and box 5-5-5 test
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
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Thanks so much for posting this!! It's my favorite diaphone and evocative of great nostalgia for me. This is the heyday of this horn and here it is in the best possible "voice" and actually sounds "proud"!! Sadly it's gone and now there are no more diaphones anywhere on Fire Island. so glad to have heard this horn at the height of its powers and very much in its prime but sadly I also heard it on its way down to its eventual decline and subsequent removal. Maintenance simply became too cost prohibitive and the increasing absence of available parts to keep it functional were too difficult to come by. This was certainly the reason for the elimination and removal of the Ocean Beach diaphone and there were many valve problems and sticking in Saltair. Because of the sticky valve situation the horn would skip numbers when blowing out a box number confusing the firefighters as to the location of the fire so that was the end of the box system. That went first before Firecom came around.
For any of you that are curious, the Model 2 siren heard after the noon blast was coming from Kismet, NY.
this is the best sounding diaphone i have heard
We had to Diaphones taken out of service in New Milford NJ because citizens of New Milford NJ had some complaints about noise 🙄 so Company 1 in New Milford NJ is only Horn left Company 2 at Trenton street has a Siren before the horn was on tower for a long time same as the DPW by the Tenis Court
The only horns that were only taken off out of service were Company 2s Horn and Dpw that's at Company 1 sitting at station
(UPDATE) this horn was replaced with a federal signal model 2.
That's a shame,, they shouldn,very kept it and used it as a noon horn or something
@@metalface3527 ik right
If i could despite the fact i live on the whole other end of the country i would have taken that horn
@@tornadochasingsiegesame, except I’d repurpose it as my daily truck horn and tell people the horn was once used as a warning system. Badass type shit
Federal Signal Model 2 sirens are good!
Last year its soon my Fire pager went off the horn wasn't working and one Fireman's told me that there Chronic valve problem again so they had to fix the horn once again now its only 2 honks for Fire calls only because they didn't want to do Noon test anymore so that ended
So idk if it’s this one but at the Little Rock Fire Station #2 in Little Rock, AR they installed a diaphone and it sounds a lot like this one. Could it be Saltaries Diaphone?
We only do Fire calls
Rip
Isn’t this still active?
No, it was replaced with a Federal Signal Model 2.
What is Saltaire now using for alarms? Thanks Chach!
A Federal Model 2 in the same location.
@@pseudonymous19 Thanks! Is the difference (timing?) in Kismets Model 2 and Saltaires noticeable ? Thanks so much
Wait diaphone gone???
@@alexmcface yes F in chat for diaphone. I don't know where it went.
NOO
A shame it's been replaced.
Is it still in use
No it was replaced with a federal signal model 2
@@sth-1081 dang
Does it rotate?
No, Diaphones do not rotate they only point in one direction but they are a still very load. However some fire station have more than 1 horn hooked up.
Well they can with some modifications >:)
@@alexmcface they can't ever rotate
Just slap on a thunderbolt rotator and it spins (this is a joke)
@@alexmcface lol