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While I think this siren was already identified, I wanted to share another good pre-merger NYC EMS clip. Jump to 3:58

Very cool

That sounds like a strong candidate

Sounds like the same siren on the ambulance in this clip too. You mostly hear manual throughout with some wail and Yelp at the end:

I agree, to me it’s the classic sound of quickly tapping the manual button on an old Code 3 V-con siren. Something you’d always hear in NYC back when the city ambulances used them.

Hi all, I’m trying to identify the siren the old NYC EMS Ambulance is running right after the 25 minute mark. I’m guessing it’s a whelen but I’m not certain of it, or which model. Thanks for your help.

Here’s another:

Weirdly I think mine might be 100W, not sure though because I always run it through a couple of resistors so I test it in indoors

Sounds crazy but I guess that’s the point

Yea I’m thinking that’s what it is. A bit surprised, Mt. Sinai hospital ambos seem to use hi-lo for a few months and then went back to typical whelen tones. I guess this is has been in the works for the city since those articles came out. Will be interesting if other FDNY or NYPD vehicles start...

While I believe the FDNY EMS PA4000 has always had a NY spec PA4000 with a EMS logo on the unit, it appears that they have just started adding a hi-lo tone to them. Video posted by “BrianFDNY” on YouTube. If my memory serves me, PA4000s have been in use since the late 90s, after NYC EMS and...

Wow this is an amazing find! It’s been hard to find any decent clips of the 1990 spec caprices responding, until now that is

Hey that’s amazing! Mystery solved perhaps

I think smartsiren was ‘91, the NYPD cruisers had it as soon as the redesigned caprice units were in use

Wow that Code 3 is pure pre-merger NYC EMS. Especially when you were hitting the manual

I have been messing with it quite regularly!

hi guys, the manual is uploaded in this thread: https://elightbars.org/forums/threads/sp-mark-7-wiring-diagram.84882/

That P200E is pretty straight to the point lol, is that E for Europe or economy? The Si-tron is cool, the wail and yelp tones both reminded me of the Mastercom B

Not every day you get find a few thousand bucks, nice

This is correct, I went down the rabbit hole a few years ago on this unusual unit. Here’s another of their ambulances from that same day, note the same livery and siren. It’s a SP (Scientific Prototypes) Mark 7, like OP said. Good chance it’s a former NYPD unit too, a lot of private...

Very excited to listen to these, great collection

Low tone director and silver face PA300. Fantastic!

Wow this is great. There are a bunch in there I’ve never heard of, VFS, MCS, etc.

Here’s one of Engine 9 responding in 1986. We finally get to hear wail and yelp coming from the same unit. The wail has always sounded like something from Fed Sig. The yelp has always thrown me for a loop. It appears at the 04:21 mark: Engine 54 and Ladder 9 responding in 1989. The engine is...

Wow, was scouring old NYC footage for a different project and happened upon two fantastic high quality clips from 1988. One is a ladder company running an unknown wail, I can’t make out which company. Perhaps a spare. Time stamp is 01:43. Second is Rescue 1 running an unknown yelp at 05:20.

I think a lot of it is just eBay. I've been working on a project car for years and have found eBay to be an increasingly less viable option, in several cases I've ended up finding new parts cheaper than the price of used ones on there.

Another great video. The beautiful mack arriving on the scene in the beginning has that same siren: Lots of good responses throughout.

No luck on my prior post, plus it seems like piecing together a Motorola siren system would be nightmarish anyways. Considering some of the clips I’ve seen of this mystery FDNY siren are from 1985 or apparatus from that year, that would put us squarely in silver face PA300 territory. Has anyone...

The police brought one of these to my grammar school when I was kid and lets us play around with the siren. It's probably a big reason why I own both a foxbody and a bunch of old sirens. The two will never meet but it's still great fun.

I’m working on getting a cheap Motorola Systems 90 to see what that sounds like, considering it’s been mentioned as something the FDNY ran in the past. Hopefully the guy responds