Word: firemanning
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...Wotch it Chally!" the fireman yelled, just as the torch popped the placard into flames. The other fireman jumped and threw the sign to the ground, where it was stamped to ashes by other men in blue...
Where Was the Fireman? Some of the commuters were as lucky as Land. One arm and one foot broken. Trainman Joe McDonald struggled to the door of the first coach and, in a welter of lifeless bodies, floated up to sunlight. Lloyd Nelson, 33. of Little Silver, N.J.. a survivor of the Pennsylvania Railroad wreck at Woodbridge, N.J. in 1951 (84 dead), had got a window open before his coach splashed into the bay. From the dangling car some passengers crawled hand over hand up the luggage racks to take rescuing ropes and hands. But Snuffy Stirnweiss died...
What had happened to change a routine run into disaster? One answer came clear when an autopsy on Engineer Wilburn showed evidence of hypertensive heart disease-suggesting that he had died suddenly of a heart attack. But where was Fireman Andrew, whose duty it was to check his engineer past all three warning signals-and in an emergency take over himself...
According to firemen on the scene, the blaze started in the basement corridor outside the band room. Rising along the stairway, it spread through the entire building, creating extensive damage on the second and third floors. Most of the interior of the Club, in the words of one fireman, was "gutted...
...came to Boyd, 28 miles north of Fort Worth, in the beefy person of hard-boiled Lee Cockrell, onetime stockyard worker and volunteer fireman, who was named chief of the town's three-man police force. Cockrell stopped the hot-rodders all right. He wrote as many as 80 traffic tickets in one day, used his ever-handy blackjack on some fresh guys who talked back. Indeed, some Boydsmen claimed Cockrell had clubbed them without any sort of cause. Perhaps, so:ne townspeople began to think, the hot-rodders had not been so bad after...