Top Gear Top Tip: If you’re planning on going to a siren in Isabella County, go to a siren in Clare County instead. They usually test and have slightly better reliability. If their 7 working sirens are anything to go off of.
At 16:53, you can see an AT&T Microwave Tower which would've been used in their old Long Lines system. That tower still has the Microwave transmitter horns. Usually they are taken off.
I was actually in Lansing that same day on September 4th, 2021 filming a reverse wired Thunderbolt 1000T that was installed in the north side of Lansing in 2011 after being replaced in Fraser, MI
That just sounded like the flagpole to me. It’s weird, this unit is tied in to the Darley on the other side of town by telephone relay, and the radio is located at this unit, so it should’ve gone off.
if you watch the entirety of that clip Calvin walks up to the control box and you can clearly hear the starter clanking on and off. Motor is probably fried.