Beaver County News | 1920-04-07 | Page 6 | First Electric Fire Alarm Sounded in Boston in 1852

First Electric Fire Alarm ; i Sounded in Boston in 1852 The first fire alarm ever given hy ' ; eli'i-tvicity was by the Boston . "ystem. ; from Bi.x 7 of DNtiiet 1. on ibe old j 1 Cooper Street chinch. Boston, at 8 :2. I p. m April 29. 18.12. It wss sent ii, hy j G. H. GnodnV and received at the hetd- -qunners of the sy.vem in Po)Ie Sta- ; tion 2. Court square, by Charles Carl- ' i ton Coffin, who afterward box-feme fain- j otis as a war corresponded and writer : of Civil war books, who was one of the ! : first operators of the system.