In our newest episode of the Untapped New York podcast, we’re doing a deep dive into one of New York City’s most recognizable pieces of street furniture: fire alarm call boxes. You know what ...

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 ...

Several years ago, Town Meeting appropriated about $150,000 to convert the old fire boxes to a new radio box system. Lt. Robert Lincoln said there were about 225 fire boxes throughout town.

The fire alarm boxes have been part of firefighting since their introduction in 1852. The Rensselaer boxes were made by The Gamewell Co. of Medway, Mass., ...

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 ...

RENSSELAER -- The red-and-white fire alarm boxes hanging on telephone poles around the city will go silent June 1. City workers will cover the estimated 61 boxes with hoods, taking them out of ...

The Borough Council on June 2 voted to do away the boxes, the Republican Herald said in a July 10 report. "It's a thing of the past," James Krammes Jr., assistant fire chief for the borough, was ...

LAWRENCE — The city is discontinuing its public fire alarm system, which officials say is ancient, in poor condition and too expensive to maintain. The alarm boxes, well known and highly ...

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.

POTTSVILLE – Firefighters and volunteers have been making sure fire alarm boxes in the city still work. There are 99 Gamewell boxes attached to telephone poles throughout the city, the oldest… ...