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Barry saved Detroit...

hypocritexposer

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video of pop can alarm: http://bcove.me/u0khzhwg

As Baldas reports, some departments get even more creative, setting up systems where the printout knocks over a weight that flips the switch on a doorbell ringer. Others replace the rattling can with a length of pipe, making a clanging wind-chime noise when the printout knocks it to the floor.

Detroit's 38 firehouses have been using these improvised alarms for years, a fact made public during testimony this week at the city's bankruptcy trial. None of the city's fire departments have the modern alarm systems seen in most American firehouses, where a series of tones and an automated voice tell firefighters the nature of the alarm.

http://gizmodo.com/detroits-under-funded-fire-departments-use-a-soda-can-f-1631409347/+rtgonzalez
 
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