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What safety device at the Hackensack (NJ) Fire Department Headquarters is no longer used today? Scroll down for the answer.

A switch turned the gas off to the kitchen stove automatically when the station was dispatched to an incident. Question courtesy of Tony Greco, FDIC Photographer.

February 7, 2006

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