the pole was loose and being held up by a crane.
While coming back from the Thunderbolt hookup session in Moss Lake today
I stopped by Lindsay to see what happened with the T135. While we were working
on the T-bolt the Moss Lake VFD fire chief told me that IT FELL OVER. I just said "REALLY? NO WAY!"
He said that the guy with the
crane needed his crane back and that the siren fell over. I don't know if it
fell over right when they unhooked the crane or later on. Anyway here are
some pics of what I saw today.
Here is the footing for pole. They didn't even put long enough bolts in it
to go down into the ground. You can't see it in the photo but the footing
down in the ground has some crappy re-bar. It looks like 3/8 and there are
only 4 bars in the thing. It literally broke the top part of the thing off and
pulled the re-bar right out of the top of the pole footing. Gee. If you were
putting up a T135 wouldn't it be a good idea to use bolts that went about
4 or 5 feet down or maybe further into the footing???? Duh
Here are the T135s now. Both are knocked over on their sides just laying
there. The one has a damaged horn but it doesn't look that bad from what
I could see. I assume that's the one that fell.
Here's a close-up of the horn. It's not that badly damaged. It might be worse
on the bottom but I couldn't get over there to see it.
Here's the pole. It's been torched into 3 pieces. I don't know what's going
to happen with the sirens. I guess they are just going to let them rot. The
whole scene was just ridiculous.
Here's the top of the pole. The thing was completely folded over and cut
off with a torch. What a joke. Stuff like this really ticks me off. To see
a botched installation of a huge siren like a T135 resulting in the thing falling
over is really a bummer.
