How many sirens have you actually touched? When?

[Elliott]

I helped Clayton Werden shove a crated T-128 onto a trailer in Trumbull County, Ohio.
I licked a Hurricane once.......mmmm, fiberglassy.....Kidding, but I did touch the one at Clayton's shop, formerly installed in Addyston, Ohio west of Cincy. Also a Sentry of some sort, minus the projectors.

[Robert Gift]

I spun an Model 7T & 7 at a scrap yard. ...

Did you get those sirens?

[Robert Gift]

...I licked a Hurricane once.......mmmm, fiberglassy......

Thanks for the laugh, Eldiot!
I wouldn't lick the 2t22 tied to the hand rails of our sewage digestion tank.
(I do wonder how much mist is aerosoled from the tiny bubbles oxygenating the liguor - their term for the raw sewage in the disgester.)
But I have drooled over some sirens.

[Melvin Potts]

Federal Model 2..many years ago. This one was at E.M. headquarters in Smyrna, GA(my former residence). Back then E.M. was in basement of police station(which moved to different location). E.M. evidently had the siren for years but never used it. Director let me lift the cover so I could see the inner workings.

Also touched an STH-10 still in shipping crate(in warehouse across street from Smyrna E.M. headquarters). The was adding several new sirens to its already extant system of STH-10s. Since this one was still in crate, it didn't have the horns attached.