Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Within minutes a team of firemen was on the scene. After some confusion about the source of the smoke, the firemen climbed through the third story window of H-34 and tore down the fire door 'eading to H-33. Brandishing gas masks, fire axes, and two hoses, they soon had the blaze under control...
White, hardly a dynamic campaigner himself, seemed to be running behind until Louise blundered four weeks ago by promising to increase the salaries of policemen and firemen without raising taxes. The money, she said, would come from Washington. White pointed out that the pay raise would add $26 per $1,000 of assessed value to the tax rate, and thereby captured votes in tax-conscious Irish neighborhoods that had previously gone overwhelmingly for Mrs. Hicks...
Worst of the blazes was in Orange County, just south of Los Angeles. Feeding on sere brush, the flames romped through cordons thrown up by 1,400 firemen and raced toward the wealthy residential areas of Lemon Heights, Cowan Heights, Villa Park and Orange Park Acres. Hundreds of residents were routed; 52 buildings were destroyed, most of them houses-some costing...
...were under investigation for arson. The series of conflagrations was last month's second major outbreak in Southern California. Earlier, more than 80,000 acres were charred and 45 homes destroyed. With no rain in sight and the area's fire season extending from September to January, firemen were braced for the worst. Meanwhile, Governor Ronald Reagan promised he would ask a special session of the legislature "to consider legislation affording tax relief to fire-damage victims." It seemed the only kind of relief in store...
...stands for Boston isolationism and the desperate politics of alienation. Her final campaign ad this week answered her critics with the empty, emotional, defensive tautology, "I am proud of Boston and all its citizens." Significantly her gaudiest campaign promise has been the fiscally impracticable pledge to raise salaries for firemen and policemen to $10,000--an appeal to those who see only the first line of defense against urban disorders. Mrs. Hicks' long and undistinguished record on the School Committee revealed the same timorous commitment to defending institutional stability at the cost of shamefully low educational standards...