CNY Vintage; Vintage photo: Before cell phones, alarm boxes are used to report emergencies. Published: ; Apr. 22, 2016, 3:31 p.m.

The city's first alarm system was installed in 1865 at a cost of $24,000 and, according to the San Francisco Fire Department Museum, the first call was from Box 47, Powell and Market streets, on ...

Many local fire departments abandoned their box alarm systems in the 1980s and 1990s. Antique boxes tend to land in their fire museums or on eBay, where on a recent day of Internet haggling ...

In 2010, there were 6,067 calls from alarm boxes, but only 1,123 were considered legitimate emergency calls, said Kerr. In 2011, the number of box calls jumped to 6,881, with 1,470 found to be ...

Each fire alarm box, when activated, would transmit to ... the Kleinstuber Combination Post Company manufactured these vintage boxes. By 1920, the Fire and Police Alarm Post Company opened its ...

The FDNY welcomes reports from the public on downed or out of order fire alarm call boxes and for those interested in preserving the historic call boxes, you can contact the FDNY via 3-1-1- to get ...

GOLDSBORO, N. C. (WNCT/CBS Newspath/WKRC) - A fire chief restored a vintage fire truck for fallen firefighters' and first responders' "last alarm." The chief, from Goldsboro, North Carolina, told ...

The Boston Fire Department’s alarm boxes are the same as they ever were – 170 years on the job, and they still work. They are brightly colored, well-marked and appear every 1,000 feet on ...