Many of Boston's fire boxes are over a century old and are still operating smoothly
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2022
- Many of Boston's fire boxes are over a century old and are still operating smoothly
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On June 18th, 2024, there was a 2-hour outage state-wide of the 911 system. Boston officials instructed the public to use the red fire boxes to indicate emergency (along with a list of police phone numbers). That day was a rare, modern-day example of how an old but reliable technology can save the day when modern tech fails.
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I have responded to many of these pulled boxes during an emergency . If your cell phone dies they still work.
I guess this technically and others that were like it would be the first "addressable" fire alarm system
If it was installed today it would be plastic and have to be repaired or replaced every 3-5 years
it just wouldnt work. cost several million per unit. some CEO somewhere would get a nice bonus.
I have visited the BFD Annunciator building in the Fenway. It is as old and still operable and in every day use. All of the call boxes are handled there. The equipment is all original. It's a working museum, actually.
I miss hearing the boxes getting tapped out and the bell, we got rid of the system in the late 90's always thought it was a terrible idea.
There’s one of these (looks EXACTLY the same but plastic) that was in my grandpas basement and I always thought it was hooked up, he passed away on Memorial Day and while cleaning out the house I found out inside is a phone and it was hooked up, the phone had a dial tone!
They used to sell those novelty phones in 90s and 2000s catalogs, they’re neat.
Of course these fire boxes still work. They come from an age when people took pride in their work and cared about quality.
I have a number of Gamewell boxes as well as some from NY City which had custom-made boxes and pedestals made for them.
The most beautiful box is the "VF" pedestal from the 1920s, I have one from Brooklyn dated on it's base 1929, the guy in charge back the Victor Fine overhauled the system and these massive pedestals were placed all over the city, they stand 7 feet high and weigh 900 pounds! I have a video of it on youtube, just add this to the base url; watch?v=4ZD6HV-oU5
I know of a town where police call boxes are still in service.
If it works it works, no sense in changing it
The boxes are repaired at 200 Southampton Street. I googled it.
I believe that many of those Fires could be for Insurance reasons!, as to collect the money!,✨
meh. rip them out. outdated. obsolete. replace them with some fancy modern digital ecofriendly power saving device. far better. can have a few politicians show up and have their photo taken as they grin inanely. give themselves a payrise and bonus besides for implementing such revolutionary technology. next day, everything turns to crap. surprised pikachu face.
thats how we run things here in the land down under. no outdated old technology for us! nope, we got the fibre optics and the way of the future!
lol... i think they expect us to perform smoke signals in an emergency. digitally...
Their trains don't work
That's what happens when a fire department operates a railway!
Or should I instead be outraged at something else? You comment was unclear.
Fun side note, you can swap the first two letters of unclear and go nuclear.
proof that boston dynamics robots will have true staying power
theyll probably evict you from your home and live in it in a century, who knows!