Fri Apr 30, 2021 7:51 am
I live only three miles from there, and in fact I could hear that Model 5 (the active one) from my house. However, I was visiting Boston, Massachusetts on a college tour trip at the time of the fire.
The actual date of the fire was July 5, 2016. I don't know where November came from.
The fire department has completely rebuilt, and they installed a Model 2 on December 30, 2019, and I can also hear it from my house.
The fire originated from one of the engines. As far as I know, nobody was badly hurt. I have no clue about the fate of the old sirens, as I have zero contact with anyone associated with the fire department. The Sterling does appear to have been remarkably intact, though it had already been out of service for a long time (they called it a back-up siren).