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Galveston. He hit the East Coast ports. Everywhere he went he talked, dishing it out to oilers, firemen, wipers, seamen. What he said ran like this...
Shanghai's realistic firemen, who seldom risk confronting a spreading blaze but prefer to douse burned-out wreckage in its wake, last week proved as sensitive as they are sensible. In consequence of repeated (though unsubstantiated) charges that they demanded goldbar bribes to answer a New Year's Day call, the city's 514 fire fighters resigned in a body...
...fire around dawn drove Musicomedy Writers Herbert & Dorothy Fields (Let's Face It, Annie Get Your Gun) out of their 18-room house in Brewster, N.Y. Some $15,000 worth of furnishings went up in flames, but rural firemen managed to save the house: the Fields had a full swimming pool left over from summer...
Rescue experts are trained first aid workers, educated in this specially at a local fire college. Their schooling showed up a Boston doctor on one occasion when the M.D. stated that a victim of heart disease wouldn't live out the night. With a combination inhalator and resuscitation firemen worked over the patient for 12 hours. She is alive today...
Armed with brand-new gas masks, which supply compressed air from a portable tank, rescue men often face danger where "Boston firemen can't go in," according to one member of the staff. Workers often enter home-made gas chambers when an old-fashioned refrigerator breaks down and befumes the air, creating a problem firemen call the "lousiest...