A trip to the cleveland F.A.O. 
 This Is the Gamewell street box system installed in the Fire Alarm Office of the Cleveland Fire Dept. that covers vertually every wall.  Only some of the boxes still work and are no longer maintained. Plans are to do away with the street boxes all together when the FAO moves to a new location. No word on when that move will take place or where they will move to.
 
 Yet another shot of the adornement of Gamewell alert pannels in the FAO.
 
 
Here is the main communications console in use by the Fire Department. There a total of 4 possitions in the FAO. The consoles have recientlly been re-done to accommodate the new Astro digital system the city is now useing. The dispatcher has the capability of opperating the old low band system as well as the new 800 system from this point. They can also cross patch the dispatched audio to the other low band channels. Currentlly one channel is still beying used and can be monitered by the comon citizen,  153.950 mhz is beying used to re-broadcast the dispatch audio. Still not like the old days of the low band radio were you could hear everything that was going on.
 
Here is one of the three call taker possition's where the call for an emergency is received and then decided apon witch units are to handle the call. The responding companys house radios are alerted as to the nature of the call. Then the inital CAD message is sent to the Main dispatch possition.