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Wait Up. In Conway, Ark., Fire Chief K. W. Parker swallowed his pride, complained publicly that the citizens were always beating the firemen to the scene and blocking operations...
Humanitarian. In St. Louis, worried by talk of a Fire Department economy drive, Joseph Hauser turned in a false alarm, explained later that he hated to see any firemen get fired for lack of work...
...tell his readers that he had cancer. Even then he tried to give them humor, albeit tightlipped. He wrote: "[The cancer] was near the base of the spine. . . . Getting it out involved considerable damage to adjacent and innocent property. ... It was as if a crew of firemen were trying to get a safe . . . out of the third story of a burning building. The stairs were on fire, so they had to take it through a window. . . . In their haste they knocked down gas pipes, tore holes in water lines and upset the electric wiring. They got the safe...
Charlottesville firemen no longer answer the alarm at the University; they have been burnt by the student body once too often. Two years ago the fire department allied with the municipal police fought a pitched battle with the Virginia boys and the state troopers. Routed at the end, the firefighters lost their clothing and trucks to a rioting band of fraternity men after responding to a false signal. Hook and ladder in nearby Crozet, more intrepid than the Charlottesville smoke eaters, can still be summoned in an emergency...
Usually stoic John Harvard blushed scarlet over a "B.U."-lettered waistcoat as seven car-loads of Terrier students touched off kerosene poured in the symbol "BU" and stretching from the 50 yard line southward to the 35. Firemen and Yard police armed with guns arrived to find seared, black turf facing their hoses...