Why S.F. still counts on street fire alarm boxes

Every year, San Francisco firefighters respond to emergency calls from a street alarm box system that was in use when horses still pulled the engines. There's almost no part of the city that's more than two blocks away...

Gamewell-FCI Releases High-Tech Fire Alarm & Emergency Communications Monitoring, ...

New Technologies Improve Monitoring, Maintenance and Emergency Response NORTHFORD, Conn., January 30, 2012 - Gamewell-FCI by Honeywell (NYSE: HON) announces an expanded line of cutting-edge technologies, designed to simplify the complexities of monitoring and controlling one or more fire alarm and emergency communications systems (ECS) and speed emergency response. The FocalPoint® family of ...

Four-alarm fire destroys abandoned Vallejo warehouse, heavy smoke visible for miles

Firefighters from three counties help battle flames at abandoned, city-owned building

Fire destroys abandoned Mare Island warehouse

By Irma Widjojo Times-Herald staff writer About 50 firefighters fought a four-alarm fire in an abandoned Mare Island warehouse for two hours Sunday morning before bringing the massive blaze under control.Vallejo Fire Chief Paige Meyer said the fire, which sent plumes of

Fire displaces residents of two-story Guttenberg house

A two-alarm fire displaced several people at a two-story house on Madison Street in Guttenberg early Saturday, fire officials said.