Cities with operating box alarm systems
- USA
- California
Grass Valley - removed 2005
- Nevada City
- Sacramento
- San Francisco
- Ventura Co
- Naval Air Station Point Mugu - Gamewell and
Kingfisher radio boxes
- Naval Construction Battalion Center Port
Hueneme - Gamewell and Kingfisher radio boxes
- Colorado
- Denver - 100 ma system removed in 1970s - radio boxes in service.
- Connecticut
- Ansonia - street & master boxes, external diaphone air
horns
- Town of Bloomfield (Blue Hills) - street & master
- Town of Danielson - street & master
- Derby - street & master boxes, external air whistle
- Town of East Lyme - street & master
- Town of Enfield - street & master
- Groton - Poquonnock Bridge FD - over 300 in service
- Town of Hamden - street & master
- City of Hartford - master telegraph & street EVCS
- City of Meriden - street & master boxes
- Seymour - Manual Transmitter to external diaphone air
horns
- Shelton - street & master boxes, external diaphone air
horns
- Southington - street & master boxes
- Wallingford - master boxes only
- Town of Windham (Willimantic) - street & master
- Town of Winsted - street & master
- Georgia
- Atlanta - radio boxes only, numbers not given on air
- Illinois
- Chicago (very few street boxes, mostly in and near
Loop. Lots of master boxes.)
- Indiana
- University of Notre Dame, South Bend - over 100 boxes
in service; only system in state of Indiana
- Kentucky
- Maine
- Augusta
- Biddeford - possibly radio
- Camden - master boxes only but growing!
- Falmouth
- Millinocket
- Old Orchard Beach - system removed fall 1996
- Portland
- Rumford - paper mill only but with repeater at city FD
- Saco
- Sanford-Springvale
- Scarborough
- South Portland
- Skowhegan
- Westbrook - radio and 100 ma
- Maryland
- Baltimore - master boxes ("10" boxes), only "street"
boxes are on firehouses. ALL CIRCUITS OUT OF SERVICE, 7/8/1998.
- Hagerstown - street & master boxes, station
circuits.
- Massachusetts: Note that
almost every city and town in the Commonwealth has retained
their fire alarm system!
- New Hampshire
- Allenstown
- Concord
- Derry
- East Derry Fire Precinct - 3 Gamewell + radio
- Exeter
- Farmington
- Hampton/N Hampton/Hampton Beach
- Keene
- Laconia/Weir's Beach
- Manchester
- Newington
- Newmarket
- Peterboro
- Pittsfield
- Portsmouth - system being ENLARGED to cover Pease
International Trade Port
- Salem - system slowly being replaced by King-Fisher radio
system
- Seabrook
- Somersworth
- New Jersey
- Bayonne
- Elizabeth
- Hackensack
- Ho-Ho-Kus
- Jersey City
- Kearny
- Lambertville
- Newark
- Orange
- Perth Amboy
- Ramsey
- Ridgewood - 325 boxes, incl ~40 master
- Somerville
- Teaneck
- Waldwick
- New York
- Binghamton, City of - system to be removed in 2000
- Buffalo
- Canton1 - street and master
- Cortland
- Depew
- Endicott, Village of
- Endwell, Village of
- Gloversville
- Hartsdale Fire District (Westchester Co)
- Hinsdale, Maplehurst, and Pleasant Valley FD, Hinsdale (activates siren only)
- Homer
- Ithaca
- Jamestown
- Johnson City - system removed c.1996
- Lackawanna
- Lancaster
- Middletown
- New York City 2
- New York Mills - about 40 boxes; boxes taken out as
they fail as "are too costly to repair". Hmmph. Compared to what? a
$600,000 quint?
- Newburgh
- North Tonawanda - master boxes, a few radio boxes description of system, no box list
- Norwich, Village of
- Poughkeepsie
- Rochester - radio on 72.75 MHz
- Rockville Centre, Village of
- Schenectedy - register equipment replaced with
electronics in 1982
- Tonawanda - system out of service, boxes still up!!
- Valley Stream, Village of
- Walton, Village of
- North Carolina
- High Point - master boxes only
- Ohio
- Akron
- Cleveland - removed 1999-2000
- Pennsylvania
- Ashland - one box only - external diaphone air horns
- Beaver Falls - 49 Street, 10 Master
- Corry
- Cressona - street boxes - external diaphone air horns
- Emmaus
- Erie
- Frackville - only two street boxes - ext. diaphone air horns
- Hanover Borough
- Hazleton - ~200 street and master boxes
- Mahanoy City - street & master boxes - ext. diaphone air horns
- Minersville - street & master boxes - external diaphone air horns
- Plymouth Borough1,3
- Pottsville - 98 street & master boxes; installed 1892
- Red Lion Borough - two(!) street boxes plus auxiliaries. Box pull transmits pager tones.
- Saint Clair - street boxes - external diaphone air horns
- Schuylkill Haven - street & master boxes
- Shenandoah - street boxes - external diaphone air horns
- Sunbury1
- Tamaqua - street & master boxes - external diaphone air horns
- Warren
- West York1
- York
- Rhode Island
- Burrillville - four volunteer departments with four
separate loops
- Cranston
- East Greenwich
- Lincoln - all volunteer, beginning switch to radio
- Newport
- seriously doubt they have boxes that start with zero.
- North Kingstown
- North Smithfield - telco
- Providence
- Scituate - switching to radio (50%)
- Smithfield - switching to all radio by end of year (95% radio, 5% telco)
- Warwick - radio
- Woonsocket - switching to radio
- Tennessee
- Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge
- Vermont
- Brattleboro
- Burlington - system phased out 1995-96
- Hartford
- Rutland
- Canada
- British Columbia
Vancouver - removed 1995-08-08 (right around the time I started this site!)
Notes
- 1 - Department has horn
- 2 - I have the list for this department on paper, but do not have the time to scan them in
- 3 - radio tapper in service
- 100 ma - alarms transmitted to fire alarm via municipal 100
milliamp telegraph system
- telco - alarms transmitted to fire alarm via lines leased
from telephone company
- radio - alarms transmitted to fire alarm via radio