Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brave Firemen Sirs: Re: Your issue Feb. 22, Business &Finance- "Fireman's Fund," p. 83. San Francisco acquired its first paid Fire Department on Dec. 3, 1866 at which time the Volunteer Department ceased to exist after 16 years of service...
Mail box and shower room fires have recently adorned the records of the Cambridge Fire Department, but firemen agreed that it was a now one on them yesterday afternoon in Brattle Square when they were called upon to extinguish cribs, baby carriages, bed-pots, and other articles of infant paraphernalia in a truck whose exterior was inaptly labelled "Beer and Wine...
...McAllister thought he smelled smoke at 3:15 o'clock and, verifying the message of his olfactory organ, notified the Fire Department immediately. An enthusiastic group of spectators urged firemen on with cries of, "Come on you, break it in!" directed at several smoke-eaters who were climbing up to the third-floor windows. However, the firemen did not comply with these demands. Shouldering their axes, they entered the building the usual way: by opening windows...
...firemen, gleefully tearing down walls and ceiling, were packed into the tiny room from which the smoke poured. Meanwhile, co-operative Crimson stalwarts helped pull hoses up to the roof of the building. Their ardor was some-what dampened when boisterous fire-fighters above, testing a hose, directed the stream of water at the undergraduates...
Though plaster fell from the walls, the firemen tore down no partitions and broke no windows. Colonel Apted reported "No Damage." Seven engines and a "Black Maria" attended...