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...Good Will. In Pawhuska, Okla., firemen who had raced 28 miles from Bartlesville to help fight a $50,000 blaze arrived after it was all over, discovered that they had lost their fire hose en route...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 20, 1953 | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

Vanguard. In Peoria, firemen became suspicious when their unofficial mascot, a 14-year-old boy, always arrived at fires before they did, got him to admit that he had started five blazes because he liked "to watch the fire engines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 22, 1953 | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

...Attack. In Philadelphia, firemen blamed the burning of Mrs. Hattie Cur ry's house on a bird that tried to use a lighted cigarette to build its nest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 11, 1953 | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

...fire was discovered shortly after 9 p.m. in a suite occupied by seniors Robert O. Angle, David B. MacFarland, and Thomas M. Wallace. Michael Levinson '55, the occupant of a nearby room, and Henry Rogers, a Yard policeman, reported the outbreak to Cambridge firemen. The first engines arrived on the scene about 9:15 p.m. and set up hose lines from nearby Memorial Drive to the fourth floor suite. A large crowd of onlookers soon gathered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blaze Destroys F-Entry Room in Winthrop House | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

...Firemen succeeded in confining the blaze to one of the four rooms shared by the three students. Two windows were blown out and several articles of furniture were destroyed in the fire. The fire was extinguished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blaze Destroys F-Entry Room in Winthrop House | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

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