On each side of the first floor passage entry is an alarm box and a plain light fixture.

They also say the city would save $5 million a year, the cost of maintaining the alarm boxes.

The fourth man dashed to an alarm box to signal headquarters.

The city has 16,300 alarm boxes - 14,700 on the street and the rest in schools, hospitals and other public places.

He said he pulled an alarm box and ran to the building.

The alarm box had a keypad and two small lights.

He raced back to the first alarm box and pulled on his shoes, which he'd left there.

He agreed with the Council to keep in place and modernize some 9,900 of the city's 16,300 alarm boxes.

A policeman rushed from his alarm box to the spot - and found nothing.

It looked exactly like the alarm box on that building Tiny had been studying.