EXETER – The red emergency boxes affixed to buildings serve as a reminder of the role the general public played alerting fire and EMS of an emergency. But in the age of smart phones and GPS, emergency ...

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HANOVER, Pa. (WHTM) — One of the fastest ways to report an emergency dates back to the 1800’s, and one Midstate community still has the system in service. The Borough of Hanover passed an ordinance to ...

Nov. 2—MAHANOY CITY — Beginning Thursday, the familiar bright red Gamewell fire alarm pull boxes on utility poles throughout the borough will be taken out of service until further notice. Mahanoy City ...

Editor's note: This column is the first of two parts on Pittsfield's fire alarm system. From the earliest days in school, baby boomers were given lessons on what to do to report a fire. Of course ...

Every year, San Francisco firefighters respond to emergency calls from a street alarm box system that was in use when horses still pulled the engines. There's almost no part of the city that's more ...

LEOMINSTER — There are still about 71 fire-alarm boxes on red poles with white horizontal stripes scattered around the city streets, but they are tired looking and seem out of place in a digital world ...

(CNN) — When the Massachusetts 911 system for emergency calls stopped working on Tuesday afternoon, Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox noted the city already had a backup solution in place. Use ...

BOSTON - One of America's oldest cities has some pretty old fire alarm boxes as well, and Boston is looking for proposals from vendors on how to upgrade the city's network of 2,200 fire alarm boxes, ...

Strike the box! Pull the box! Box the still! We have a box! Box it, baby! Gimme a box! Mutual-aid box alarm! Strike out the box…. No matter how the term is used or what area you may be from, “the box” ...

A federal judge on Monday once again struck down the city’s plan to remove fire alarm boxes from New York‘s streets – saying it would discriminate against the deaf. The city had sought to lift a ...