Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Test Case. In Gushing, Okla., shortly after staging a special fire-prevention demonstration at a local elementary school, firemen answered an alarm, found a seven-year-old boy who explained that he had set his house on fire "to find out if the firemen were telling the truth...
Silent Eyewitnesses. Boston firemen and doctors began arriving on the scene a few minutes after the explosion. As night fell, anxious families crowded against police lines, and litter bearers continued to bring charred bodies down the gangway...
Volunteer firefighters made the mistake of turning a hose on the blaze, only helped to spread it. Soon a blazing oil tank set a tar roof afire, sending a shower of burning tar on fleeing workers. Firemen came by scores from half a dozen towns, but were helpless. Three workers and one fireman perished* and 40 others were injured. Solvents, cleaning compounds, acids and gases burst into angry, hungry flames that were whipped by a brisk west wind. Steel columns twisted and dipped like trees bowed by an ice storm. It was the worst fire in the history of Detroit...
Fighting spread. The mobs rampaged through the bazaars, stopped trains in the outskirts, cut signal wires and threw acid at firemen who tried to stop the fires. Their tactics showed how long the Communists had prepared. When police jeeps came after them at night, someone would blow a whistle and the street lights would go out. Then, at the moment of blindness, they would rush from the alleys, sear the cops with acid and drive them from the street...
Blowtorch. In Oakland. Calif., firemen put out a fierce blaze in the Y.M.C.A. library after Jim Heckle, a carnival fire-eater, was seized with a coughing fit during a performance...