Word: firemanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britons were busy, as they usually are during any national crisis, taking care of their nation's animals. Rangers toured Wimbledon Common in a pony cart passing out food to wild birds. A fireman risked his life on the ice of a lake at Stanmore to save an Alsatian wolf dog that had fallen through. An R.A.F. helicopter winged its way across Suffolk to rescue icebound swans, and a Mrs. Phyllis Buckle, 57, of London did her bit by carrying 6 Ibs. of corn, two loaves of bread and a hot-water bottle to the pigeons huddling in Trafalgar...
...engine was damaged earlier this year as it skidded around a corner on the way to a fire. The driver and another fireman were seriously injured in the crash, but the engine suffered only body damage. The City Council voted on Monday to send the machine to its manufacturer--the Pirsch Company in Kenosha--for repairs...
Crane expects the fire departments of cities en route to "give the pumper the old visiting fireman treatment, brass bands and all. During night stopovers, the engine will be parked in local firehouses, ready for anything...
...security measures to keep the engine--pumper number two--under lock and key. Police cordons were set up around the fire station on Portland St. last night to keep photographers and reporters away. The fire station's personnel barricaded themselves behind locked doors and windows. "Nobody gets in," one fireman said...
...serene little Mad River suddenly smashed through the town and isolated it for two days. In Farmington, Conn., little Patricia Ann Bechard drowned when a rescue boat capsized while her horrified mother, Mrs. Leon Bechard, clung to her baby daughter and watched helplessly. A Farmington fireman lashed five-year-old Linda Bartolomeo to a tree, was washed into the floodwaters himself, and later rescued. Red Cross officials found the child safe, 30 hours later. In Seymour, Conn, and Woonsocket, R.I., the floodwaters ripped through cemeteries, uprooted coffins and sent them bobbing downstream...