Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Settlemayer knew what he wanted to do. He had been interested in libraries since he got a job, at 13, as a part-time page boy in Cincinnati. "My primary job," Settlemayer says, "was to shelve books. But my secondary job was to go next door and get the firemen to put out kids who made any noise." Instead of putting people out, Librarian Settlemayer figured that he should be bringing them in -and the more the merrier...
...Firemen and student bunkers attempted to extinguish the flames with water, whereupon a quart of hydrochloric said, a half pound of metalic sodium, two and a half pounds of lithium bromide, and five gallons of faming sulfuric acid exploded...
...broke into the house and poured gasoline through all its rooms. They laid a clumsy fuse of surgical gauze to the outside and lit it; it went out. Then they tossed a flaming kerosene torch through a window and drove away. Before the gasoline was ignited, neighbors called firemen and the house was saved...
Then fire engines, police cars, ambulances and taxicabs began drawing up. Emergency floodlights bathed the shattered cars in an unearthly brilliance. Cops, firemen and workmen with big jacks scrambled toward the cars; doctors and nurses crept and crawled up ladders and into the wreckage, hypodermic needles in hand. Welders began to create their blinding cascades of sparks while firemen sprayed water past them to keep trapped humans from, burning. A jostling crowd gathered, a sound truck began rasping out commands...
Cambridge firemen answered the automatic alarm by sending 15 firemen, the 78-foot hook and ladder truck, one pump truck, and two emergency cars. The firehouse is located 100 yards across the street from Thayer...