Word: firemanning
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...became curious. Wishing to see how fire boxes work, he pulled in a false alarm. As the hose truck of Engine Co. No. 73 sped toward the non-existent fire, an automobile drove across its path. Swerving to avoid collision, the hose truck crashed into an "L" pillar. Fireman Henry Holster, father of four children, was killed...
...smells rose, one morning last week, around a locomotive which waited in London, ready to whisk a trainload of tourists off to Southampton and the Cunarder Aquitania. Pensive, the engineer spat from his cab upon the platform. "D'ye twig wha's aboord?" he said to the fireman, "Mon, I wud sooner drive Mac any day than the King himsel...
...star of "Sunny," observing the shaky hand of the scribe, "but, considering that even the bar of the S. S. Triumphant is a fake, I can only brace you up with a Scotch joke. Have you ever heard about the Scotehman who happened to be a volunteer fireman in his native village...
...their nightgowns, screaming. The street was full of people. In a minute the Fire Chief's car came round the corner. The driver ran upstairs in the next building and climbed across a ledge to their window. When the ladders came he handed one girl to a fireman and carried the other down himself. The crowd cheered. Now the girls remembered the actor. A fireman went back for him. He found him sitting in his pajamas in a chair by the window. He was dead. His body was burned but recognizable. There was no indication in his attitude...
...Fire Brigade (Charles Ray, May McAvoy). Lest that drab day come when Young America shall cease to begin life with fire-fighting aspirations, Director Nigh provides the public with a picture well calculated to arouse boyish enthusiasm. The hero is a fireman who not only rescues women and children from the flames, but fearlessly announces to the heroine's papa, corrupt politician, that it is unethical to build firetraps. Charles Ray is the young man with brass buttons, tin hat; and May McAvoy, as the pleasing heroine, marries him in a smoky fadeout, while Boy Scouts in the audience...