Monday, May 17, 2021

Boston Mass FD - 1978 Annual Report

https://bostonfirehistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/51/2016/05/bfdannualreport1978.pdf

OR

https://web.archive.org/web/2020*/https://bostonfirehistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/51/2016/05/bfdannualreport1978.pdf

have 500 EMTs - 3 month / 81 hour course

all 1700 firefighters have taken 26 hour First Responder course

trained 3,000 citizens in CPR - for free

considering OptiCom for new Melena Cass Blvd (traffic control system)
- very interesting

there were 91 second alarms in 77/78 - iirc there were 200 in 76/77

there are 765 master boxes - at 40 hospitals + 240 schools + 76 nursing homes

MBTA will be installing fans in Blue Line

MBTA supplied 20 subway portable radios for engines and ladders -
(iirc these were 153.89 radios)

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