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Still being used, in Cambridge at least: https://www.cambridgema.gov/cfd/News/2024/02/firealarmboxes.aspx https://www.cambridgema.gov/cfd/News/2024/02/firealar
by slug 3y ago
Still being used, in Cambridge at least:
https://www.cambridgema.gov/cfd/News/2024/02/firealarmboxes.aspx https://www.cambridgema.gov/cfd/News/2024/02/firealarmboxes....
- flomo 3y agoAlso in San Francisco. https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/San-Francisco-historic-fire-alarm-boxes-SFFD-16307778.php https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/San-Francisco-historic-...
- Animats 3y agoI was once recruited by a consulting firm that developed the control center for the SFFD, and visited the command center. They had computers listening to the pull box circuits and displaying box locations, but they kept the wind-up Morse inker to put dashes on a paper tape, and its bell, in case that failed. That was pre-cell phone, though.
- abridges6523 3y agoThe upside is not relying on telecommunications, but the downside is one trip and they don’t trip again until they are manually reset by a tech.
- gumby 3y agoPresumably at least one fire truck shows up so they can reset it.
- abridges6523 3y agoIn some cities including Boston itself, it’s not the Fd that resets it but the fire alarm company of record(I work for one) who also gets a call. The possible issue is if another alarm comes in before the tech arrives it will not report to the FD again.