In the beginning - church bells rang when there was a fire. (I guess). If anyone needed mutual aid, I guess they would send someone on horse back to the next town.
Then in the 1890s, the telegraph fire boxes were around. Each town probably had ties to adjacent towns. This is how mutual aid was summoned. Maybe telegraph systems were used between towns at some point also. Western Union to Western Union Office maybe. Later - telephones were introduced. Maybe in the 1920s. Mutual aid between towns could now be summoned via telephone. (I assume) 1930s and 1940s. Radios were introduced. Countywide networks were the basis. 33.70 33.90 46.18 33.50 33.54 33.66 154.07 154.22 33.98 33.62 33.48 154.31 33.76 I imagine that in the 1950s and 1960s if Woburn had a big fire, they would have to call on the telephone to any towns that were not connected to their fire alarm telegraph system. Or maybe they would telephone to the county dispatch point who would then contact the needed FDs. I suppose that the NAWAS system served as the link between the various county dispatch points. (NAWAS was a dedicated telephone system primarily intended to spread nuclear attack alerts) Anyone have better info? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/massfire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
