Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...required will serve as gunners-mates, boatswains'-mates, quartermasters, seamen, engineers, electricians, machinists, riggers, blacksmiths, coppersmiths, riveters, ship-carpenters, firemen, coal passers, cooks, stewards, radio operators, and in many other capacities in coast and off-shore duty, whereby men of the regular navy may be relieved for duties abroad...
...loss was largely due to the delay in getting water on the blaze when a hydrant failed to work. Not until almost an hour after the alarm sounded did the firemen succeed in cutting through the roof and getting an effective stream on the blaze...
...pajamas or fur coats at night, or in less picturesque garb at day, the pleasure seekers follow the clanging engine. The light of the fire is in their eyes. Their minds are joyous for the sight of great building crashing, and brave firemen being overcome, and fair heroines on eleventh stories jumping into their anticipating arms. True, such luxuries are seldom realized. The end of the fire-seeking trail is generally a wood-shed or a chicken-house which some urchin has se alight. Fair heroines are scarce; and tall sky-scrapers refuse to burn except at uncertain intervals...
...into play to transport the 1919 men to the other end of Fisher's Island. They also spent the day there, and on the way home assisted in extinguishing a slight blaze on the launch "Raccoon" which was in danger of being destroyed. Red Top also furnishes training for firemen...
...there was no one in the building at the time the cause has not been determined. The fire started in the photographic laboratory on the third floor of the main building and spread rapidly to the Carnegie addition, erected several years ago at a cost of $65,000. Firemen were menaced by chemical explosions, a quantity of chemicals which cannot be replaced at present because of the European war being entirely consumed, although radium worth about $1000 was saved. The loss is estimated at $300,000, partly covered by insurance...