Wow, Boston's fire boxes (which work) don't need power to run.
"The city's street fire-box system still uses the same basic mechanism as employed in the 1852 boxes: A spring-based system inside the box generates Morse Code-like signals to a central alarm station that indicate the box's number, and so its location, without the need for fancy electronics or even an external power supply. The fire-alarm office has been located in the Fenway since 1925."
https://www.universalhub.com/2018/north-end-resident-pulls-fire-box-alarm-when-call
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