BERLIN — Fire call boxes, an integral part of the city's fire response system for the better part of a century, may soon be a thing of the past.
The Berlin City Council is considering ending what it refers to as its legacy fire alarm system at the end of the year, where the fire alarm boxes mounted on a building’s exterior or on a utility pole would be decommissioned.
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