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Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social |
Apparently someone at the Boston Fire Department had a wonderful, vindicating day yesterday, during the 911 outage:
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Michael Rader
@theoryof.games
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does anyone other than that guy know what the hooks are or how to use them?
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robeagle
@robeagle.bsky.social
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Saving lives, and being fully vindicated I can only imagine his reaction..
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Mark Shore
@markshore.bsky.social
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Now I'm picturing the Pentagon with a giant customized Risk board in a backup meeting room.
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Routermonkey
@routermonkey.social
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"They only know which hook got pulled, they don't know where to go after that" - I dunno, I've heard an old expression, something about "where there's smoke..."
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PlanetCarnival
@planetcarnival.bsky.social
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"A 1-L lama is a priest. A 2-L llama is a beast. A 3-alarmah is one helluva a fire!"
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anontanuki
@anontanuki.bsky.social
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hey how the fuck does 911 have a statewide outage and how the fuck did the alerts for it keep waking me up
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JDub
@jeremywoodward.bsky.social
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I asked for and received a walk-through of the emergency system in providence back in the nineties and even back then was completely gobsmacked to find it was a card catalog system, and a bunch of analog circuits.
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Lothar the Fellhanded
@lotharthefellhand.bsky.social
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That’s awesome! My brother is a firefighter in Baltimore and was up for a wedding a few weeks ago and the restaurant we had the reception at in the north end had one right outside and he told me about those.
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Ozma
@rowyourbot.bsky.social
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Insould totally do this. I was so upset about giving up my landline!
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The Fresh Prince of Donair
@erisianrite.com
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One of the ones that was pulled during the outage was also the first one ever installed.
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TyrantⅡ
@tyrantii.bsky.social
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CC @universalhub.com 🚒
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Arch cam cam
@archcamcam.bsky.social
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I just learned about these alarms at the Harrisburg Firehouse Museum on Saturday, did not think this info would be useful so soon!
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Sam
@very-simple.com
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We still have these in NYC too. They’re not only useful, but extremely cool looking.
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SheltieDad
@sheltiedad.bsky.social
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I’ve been told by BFD to use the alarms if you are being accosted or in any physical danger. They will arrive a lot faster than BPD.
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tweety fish
@sifu.tweety.fish
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That system rules. Even better than landlines!
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@galdireonai.bsky.social
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If you're tired of redundant backup systems you're tired of life.
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jon "RNC security perimeter enjoyer” schuster
@jschuster.bsky.social
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QOOC: "Stay at that box until they come!"
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Kat Wolfdancer
@katwolfdancer.bsky.social
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Still, he has a point. How many times has the power gone out and the cashier can't make change because the electric cash register usually computes that? It's always a good idea to have an analogue/low tech back-up
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K. Chen
@tznkai.bsky.social
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Digitization is good, digitization with backups is better
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Fat Apollo
@fatapollo.bsky.social
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Imagine that! For years being told you were wrong and then BAM! I hope they had a glorious celebration
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yarrriv
@yarrriv.bsky.social
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same vibe
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John O’Donnell
@jodami.bsky.social
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“They laughed at me, called me a throwback, a Luddite. Well today, we are ready. Boston won’t burn down as long as I’ve got a hole in my arse. Ok, ladies and gentlemen of this fine public service, this is our time. Let’s fight some fires!”
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✡️Sarcastic Barbie לֵאָה (tradwife arc)👩🏽🦽
@sarcasticbarbie.bsky.social
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I’m glad to hear Gandalf is keeping himself busy; we will need his help when the system is finally done with the throes of death & completely collapses. Stay fresh Gandalf.
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Mike Behr
@mabehr.bsky.social
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I remember being told that if I was running from something, to keep pulling those hooks so they could track me
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La Conquête du Panini
@botsnack.bsky.social
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Do any of these work in NYC? I think I saw a project where people wanted to turn them into art, like painted cows or something.
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Tube🌱Time
@tubetime.bsky.social
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looks like this helped them in 2018 as well. www.wbur.org/news/2018/12...
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Jon Green
@modestholdings.com
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Strong vibes of the Knights Templar in Indiana Jones, having waited all these years for His Moment.
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Hare 🍉
@haredurer.bsky.social
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BRIAN RIZZO
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Sean Eric Fagan
@kithrup.bsky.social
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... we need a dramatic presentation of this, and it MUST include the fire chief laughing as he moves little magnetic fire trucks around.
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Mark
@markdrinkwater.bsky.social
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Was relieved yesterday that our CMED base station was still functional...the drama we went through to preserve it a few years ago - why do you need it we aren't a trauma center - was all worth it...
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Raveyote
@raveyote.bsky.social
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Some of those old call boxes had a finger trap to make you stay by the box. (And to deter pranksters and false positives)
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BikeMikeBike
@thespinner.bsky.social
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Alas, the “Alarm Chief,” AKA the only guy who knows how to use the analog system, was out yesterday nursing a wicked hangover.
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Benny Six Cats
@teeveeben.bsky.social
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It’s not infrastructure, but my FIL was a finishing carpenter and has been retired for years, but keeps getting called into the shop once every few weeks because they can’t find anyone else who knows how to cut and grind the crown moulding knives to the standard they require.
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Shawn Connolly
@divinecoffeebinge.bsky.social
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incidentally I choose to believe that the 911 outage was caused by Mooninites
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Shawn Connolly
@divinecoffeebinge.bsky.social
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I honestly love this
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Robert Dimmick
@rbdimmick.bsky.social
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This is the same fire box system that was in place during the Cocoanut Grove Fire in 1942. From Boston Fire Historical Society: "In a strange coincidence, at 10:15PM, the BFD received and transmitted Box 1514, located at Stuart and Carver Streets...about three blocks from the Cocoanut Grove." 1/2
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ExecutiveOtaku
@executiveotaku.bsky.social
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I had forgotten about those things! My little hometown had them until about 2002 or so. One of my great uncles was fire chief of one of our (many, still sorted by immigrant ethnicity) volunteer fire departments and would manually walk to a box every noon to pull and test one.
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Fold-Over Wetter
@plungingvbekka.bsky.social
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Amazing! Yeah why you keep the hardware, functional always.
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OSMOTE
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I love this omg
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TubaPeter.com
@tubapeter.bsky.social
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Also a good day for Flashlight Guys.
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Gabriel S. Jacobs
@gsjphd.bsky.social
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his very own Admiral Adama moment
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Chris Beveridge
@chrisbeveridge.bsky.social
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stuff like this makes me grin because you get that mental image of a crazy old heavy white bearded dude that everyone rolled their eyes at for so long but knows what the pivotal piece of infrastructure is and insisted people train on it even though they thought he was nuts.
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Jason Jong
@plesiomorphy.bsky.social
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Makes me think of Pacific Rim
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Lyse-Beast
@lyse.bsky.social
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I want to believe he made little “vroom vroom” noises while moving the trucks. 🥰
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Chris Doyon
@nilbog3000.bsky.social
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Wires and electricity seem pretty iffy. Even after telegraphs handled city to city messages, the fastest way to get in touch in many big cities was a system of vacuum tubes sucking papers and small items through underground tunnels. Paris even had synchronized clocks driven by pressurized air
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teapot thunderdome
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this reminds me of the last act of Independence Day when they use the telegraph to communicate internationally after all the electronics go down. the other time I was reminded of that was when we got rid of all the telegraphs. glad Boston Fire still has these!
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AE Hoogestraat
@aehoogestraat.bsky.social
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And this is why I am a HAM operator... 🙂
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Pete of Australia
@peteofoz.bsky.social
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