Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning fire yesterday destroyed the Poet's theater building just one block from Harvard Square. The two-alarm blaze brought firemen to the scene at 24-28 Palmer Street at 10:30 a.m., and the fire wasn't declared "all out" until almost six hours later...
Crowds of four to five hundred braved the 15 degree whether as they swarmed around the fire area. Footing as slippery and treacherous with ice forming quickly on the street. At one point in the morning the crowd was doused jets of water when firemen fought the blaze from inside building...
Icicles hung from signs, trucks, and firemen's caps...
Large quantities of paint in the building caused special problems for the men. Intense heat and toxic fumes made work inside the building difficult. It took nearly two and half hours to get the fire under control. Two firemen, Ralph H. Underwood and Gerald M. Sears, suffered injuries. Underwood had a broken hand while Sears suffered from smoke inhalation...
...fleet of six Cambridge fire trucks hustled over to Mather Hall last night at 9 p.m. with sirens screaming. 'While a ladder was raised to the roof, and while students were shouting "I smell it but can't see it," firemen spent five minutes in locating and dousing the blase. The undramatically small leaf are, found in a window well next to the entrance of Mather Hall C, was probably caused by a misplaced cigarette...