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...take it back because it had sugar and cream in it. A member of the Shelter Committee suggested that they take it to the City Infirmary, but the lady-in-charge said that it was too late for those old people there to drink coffee. "What about the firemen and the policemen, we could take it by there, they've been out in this with us this afternoon . . . Or the city jail? Does anyone know where the city jail...
There were seven men in the band, but they just happened to like the name Firehouse Five Plus Two. On the stand they wore red shirts, white suspenders and ancient leather firemen's helmets. They played standing up and they irreverently displayed a reproduction of Whistler's Mother when they honked out You've Got to See Mamma Ev'ry Night or You Can't See Mamma at All in a solid two-beat, flatfoot jazz style...
Over a hundred spectators tied up traffic on Garden Street to watch firemen, policemen, the Red Cross, and Cambridge city officials participate in the disaster drill. This mobilization of the Civilian Defense units followed Congressional recommendations to test the efficiency of such a practice in peacetime...
...wails of fire sirens sounded through Rockville Centre. Townspeople ran toward the tracks and stood there, staring in frozen horror. Police and firemen began working their way through the wreckage, climbing over the cars, battering and prying with crowbars and sledge hammers. Soon, floodlights whitely bathed the scene. A crowd of 30,000 watched from the trackside...
Students offered to come to the rescue of parched New Yorkers, and firemen came to the rescue of scorched students...