Word: fireboat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City's East River to televise a swimming pool. When the engineer saw fire break out in an abandoned U. S. Army barracks on Wards Island, he swung his camera around, caught and sent through the air television's first fire. Flames, smoke, a fireboat's futile efforts to save the building all appeared on the screen, were seen in the studios by television's first buffs...
From the Old Port at the foot of the Cannebiere a fireboat squirted water as far as it could, striving to wet down as many roofs as possible, but it was soon evident that the city fire department was no better than the police. Four years ago the assassination of Yugoslav King Alexander together with French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou at Marseille was "on the police." Last week, although a Marseille fire brigade chief gave his life recklessly fighting the flames, the holocaust was "on the fire department." The conflagration got completely out of hand...
...inch apart, discovered that it could light a neon lamp. That stunt became the Aquarium's No. 1 attraction, with three performances daily. Branching his eel out into the field of ceremonial keypushers, he had it supply the initial impulse to start a police siren, a North River fireboat, an airplane; light a 2,000,000-candlepower beacon in Radio City; send a buzz over an NBC network...
...There is little doubt that under certain conditions, much of the ground fog could be dissipated by using electrified spray from fireboat nozzles. The electrification must need be high, something of a half million volts...
...soon got into the rum. A barrel burst, shot a fan of blue-blazing rum into the air. Soon concussions rocked the warehouse and burning rum ran in flickering blue rivers into the Thames. Blue flame fingered halfway across the Thames. London's brass-hatted firemen came by fireboat and engine. As the rum burnt, its evaporated alcohol made the firemen tipsy. They put on gas masks. All over town Londoners could see the fire's reflection...