Air Raid Sirens Walk 15: Like, we got some Valley Sirens

[@Sirenthusiast]

Doug, I love your enthusiasm and desire to inform fellow siren enthusiasts through your videos. The Los Angeles County Civil Defense Program-era siren system truly is one of the most spectacular and historically-rich systems in the United States. I live nearby and am happy to see others exploring and learning about this system as well. Thanks for the quality content and take care!

[@GamingWithJonny3612]

9:35 It appears there might be a second siren under the cut-down 7. I can see a rotor and stator under it.

[@dennishanley9103]

Hi Douglas, thanks for another great Siren Walk! BTW, the three giant radio towers at about 07:13 used to be KMPC 710 AM, later switching call letters to KSPN. KSPN is now broadcasting from a new site in Irwindale (still on 710), and I'm quite sure these towers will be demolished in the very near future. Look for lots of new construction on this very large piece of property right afterwards. I mention this because I have seen several examples of when there is new construction, any siren on or adjacent to the project site will be gone. I will be keeping watch on this one for sure, as I suspect it's days are numbered... :-(

[@DayTrippingAdventurer]

Great information. I assumed it was something to do with radio broadcasting. I understand the concern regarding any construction that might take place, since starting these walks 2 sirens I visited have been removed: One on 7th & Vermont and the other when they tore down the parking structure across from Disney Hall. Not to mention the one that fell down. So, three that appear in my videos are no more.

[@Jamesairhvac]

Nice! thanks for uploading!

[@TheSirenManiacYT]

Yes it’s another walk!! Great video!!

[@mattmakesmachines]

the 500-SHTT at the fire station 3:33 looks to still have a lot of the original control equipment im sure if you reached out to the fire dept you may be able to get yourself a functional piece of history or at least you may be able to convince them to set it off for you

[@AsylumFreak19]

Yesss the first siren is what I always expect to see when I'm on the Freeway

[@AdamsCarWashVids]

I love your enthusiasm Doug, also by the looks of it there actually might be a second siren physically underneath the first one at station number 60 9:32 you can see the chopper physically underneath it

[@DayTrippingAdventurer]

Hmm, I'll have to zoom in on some of the other photos to see what's going on under there. Might be rust, might be something else.

[@AdamsCarWashVids]

@@DayTrippingAdventurer Yeah that’s true, but directly above the white looking board you can see three evenly spaced Rotor ports So looks like there’s more than just rust, it might even be that they installed to sirens on top of each other, one for fire and one for civil defence in a similar way to how some of the European sirens were built

[@DayTrippingAdventurer]

Check out armoturo5346's comment below.

[@PalmPeakMarketing]

Just noticed that!@@AdamsCarWashVids

[@Gvacs]

​​@@DayTrippingAdventurerThis one has the siren flipped and put under the housing, it's weird, but I think it was to get better airflow. (These cut-down 7s had poor airflow)

[@bigblumerstrikesback]

Love the cut down model 7s

[@Goldwana]

The fire station model isn't a model. (I think) because i can see its like a soundmaster. Under the housing lil bit up from the wood thing what is it on, i can see another siren. 1 model housing put on another siren.

[@tornadof25]

odd how that flattened Model 5 or 7 on that old fire dept. tower has a secondary chopper assembly underneath it..

[@DayTrippingAdventurer]

I honestly didn't notice it when I was there, it was just so bright and I was tired, but now that multiple people have pointed it out I've tried finding some information on that type of siren and have come up empty.

[@tornadof25]

@@DayTrippingAdventurer yeah quite an odd thing maybe they just put and extra Model 7 under the other one?

[@dayenjames8307]

Just so you know, these sirens have tags on the unit itself. If you have a camera that has enough zoom to take a photo of this tag in good enough quality to read it, we could settle the debate on what these cut-down sirens are.

[@DayTrippingAdventurer]

I wish I had a long lense. A good one costs a quite a bit.

[@Sirens1003]

@@DayTrippingAdventurer I use a Canon PowerShot SX540 HS, with 50x optical zoom (24-1200mm) and I swear by it.

[@anthonymeza7519]

Please walk number 16 to find a scream master siren

[@DayTrippingAdventurer]

Unfortunately I don't think there are any Screemmasters in the Valley (cluld be wrong) but eventually I will get to one.

[@theray2009]

​@@DayTrippingAdventurerthere's some around Montebello and Long Beach

[@asherhayden5729]

9:34 under the mach 7 there is a chopper what is it??!?

[@DayTrippingAdventurer]

I'm told it's a second chopper, but I've not had much luck confirming that.

[@thecranfillscraft5692]

Douglas I found a edwards hyperspike ma-1

[@asherhayden5729]

it's a mach 7

[@roxanaquntanilla5521]

Can you go to siren 109 at plummer and Sepulveda

[@DayTrippingAdventurer]

Working my over there. It's been a challenge planning the routes and right now that one may take a bit, got three walks ahead of it at the moment. But I plan on eventually seeing em all!