“They were not going to restructure the steel to put it [fire siren] back up where it needed to go. So they just ended the life of the siren. At the time I had a friend in an adjoining volunteer fire company who had asked me if I could assist them with fixing their whistle, which was down. And I had expertise in doing this from the 1980s, and I’m one of the few people that still dabbles in these things. So I went over and took a look at it, and I said, well, we’re going to have to set it up to h

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