{"id":5766,"date":"2010-01-30T11:35:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T16:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5766"},"modified":"2010-01-30T11:35:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T16:35:06","slug":"wait_thats_what_those_things_are_for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/01\/wait_thats_what_those_things_are_for.html","title":{"rendered":"Wait, That&#8217;s What Those Things Are For?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I saw a fire, I don&#8217;t think I would ever think to look for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2010\/01\/30\/2010-01-30_lets_pull_fireboxes_mike_says.html\">one of those things<\/a>, much less know how to use it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Since 85% of calls made through the street boxes are false alarms, Bloomberg said, &#8220;In the days where everybody has cell phones &#8230; the city would be just as safe without them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Only 140 structural fires last year out of 26,666 were first called in through an alarm box &#8211; and phone calls on those fires came in after the boxes were pulled, according to the FDNY.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/queens\/lic\/hunterspt\/newtowncreek\/borden\/48firebox.jpg\" alt=\"Broken Firebox, Borden Avenue, Hunters Point, Long Island City, Queens\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\"><\/p>\n<p>(Wow, I&#8217;m scared that I actually agree with the mayor on this . . .)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I saw a fire, I don&#8217;t think I would ever think to look for one of those things, much less know how to use it: Since 85% of calls made through the street boxes are false alarms, Bloomberg said, &#8220;In the days where everybody has cell phones &#8230; the city would be just as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-were_all_gonna_die"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5768,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766\/revisions\/5768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}