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He might need to pull strings instead of alarms to get out of this one. A councilman in Paterson, N.J., was arrested Tuesday and accused of pulling the fire alarm inside City Hall, according to the ...
One of the fastest ways to report an emergency dates back to the 1800’s, and one Midstate community still has the system in ...
As Fire Marshal, Stone's office investigates manual activation of fire alarms to determine if the use was appropriate and issues tickets when they determine it wasn't.
Rep. Jamaal Bowman "should have known better" than to pull a fire alarm in Congress, according to Joy Farrow, a retired deputy sheriff with 28 years of experience.
Jamaal Bowman claims his pulling of the fire alarm Saturday was an innocent mistake. CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images “It was a very dangerous ‘Obstruction of an Official Proceeding,’ the ...
Simply open up the protective lid and pull down the hook. Today, there are still about 1,500 fire alarm boxes around Boston, according to Michael Gerry of the Boston Fire Historical Society.
Jamaal Bowman’s fire-alarm pull: Letters to the Editor — Oct. 3, 2023 By Post readers Published Oct. 3, 2023, 5:32 p.m. ET ...
Pull-box fire alarms like this one outside the Steinmetz Educational Center in Schenectady are expected to be out of service for about three months this summer while they are rewired to connect to ...
A smattering of fire alarm boxes also continue to dot Buffalo street corners, according to the Buffalo Fire Department's Fire Alarm Office. But most residential box alarms in Buffalo -- like the ...
"There are instances that would allow for somebody to pull that fire alarm because of some other emergency," Stone said. He described an event from the spring where the department responded to a ...