Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...order. Poker-faced patrolmen stood at 50-foot intervals at both sides of the street. They were quiet and alert and expectant. The firemen's band was playing Sousa. Strollers and loiterers, all stone-eyed and half-interested, gathered in front of the Copley Plaza and near the reviewing stand across the street. Motorcycles carrying dispatches buzzed in and departed. Big, black, shiny cars coasted into the Square and discharged more tall and short red-faced men in hombergs and Chesterfields...
...from two miles away, the fire had shot from a first-floor room up a dumb waiter, was licking through all three floors. In rows of flame-lit windows, terrorstricken women shrieked and pounded at wire mesh and steel bars which imprisoned them in cell-like rooms; before the firemen had arrived many had fallen silent and disappeared in the flames. Mrs. Anna Neal, a 55-year-old nurse on duty in the ward, led some of her patients into the night, rushed back into the fire to rescue more...
Balancing gingerly on slippery, icesheathed ladders, firemen hacked with axes at the stubborn screens and bars, taking costly long minutes. Finally they clambered inside. They found one woman, two hours after the fire had started, seated calmly on her third-floor bed; her nightgown was partially coated with ice and she was surrounded by fallen debris. "Are you all right?" a fireman asked. "I think so," she said. Taking her by the hand, he led her to a ladder at an open window. "Some of them were like animals who had something new happening to them and didn...
This was the tragic end of an afternoon's walk two youngsters took through the woods of Bedford, N.H., to nearby Sandy Pond. Two firemen are lifting out the bodies of Irene Biron, 12, and her cousin Robert Bourque, 7, after hacking out a 25-ft. channel through ice to reach them. A search began when the youngsters failed to come home at dusk one day last week, continued through the cold, foggy night. The bodies were discovered next day when a posse of neighbors, relatives, police & firemen saw the shimmering red & white of Irene's sweater beneath...