The police boxes worked a bit differently than the fire boxes.

派出所的工作方式与消防箱略有不同。

Like the fire boxes, the police boxes had numbers corresponding to their location.

和消防箱一样，警察箱也有与其所在位置相对应的编号。

Some of the original fire boxes, like this one in DC’s Cleveland Park, even date back to the 1860s.

一些原始的火箱，例如华盛顿特区克利夫兰公园的这个火箱，甚至可以追溯到 1860 年代。

Sometimes the dog and I go together for our supper to the old-fashioned kitchen where the wood range still glows and is warm and the fire box blinks a red eye in the dusk.

有时我和狗一起去老式厨房吃晚饭，那里的木柴炉灶仍然发光，很暖和，火箱在黄昏中闪烁着红色的眼睛。