Word: firemen
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...glistening streets were a writhing mass of fire hoses. Splintered glass lay ankle deep. Gaunt, charred walls buckled in, carrying firemen on extension ladders down with them. The night air stank with acrid smells of cordite, burnt flesh, sweat. Cries of the burned, hoarse shouted commands of the firemen, and thunderous oaths kaleidoscoped into a rumble of sound. The city seemed engulfed in flame. At dawn the rosy glow of the fires gave way grudgingly to a coppery sun, picking its way through billows of heavy black smoke...
...with a $4 million budget and 850 employes, urged every man to keep on his toes. There might still be need, said OCD, for all the equipment it had delivered or requisitioned: 4,419,450 arm bands, 2,700,000 helmets, 5,000,000 gas masks, 100,000 firemen's coats, 72,000 12-to-14-qt. buckets, 2,258,000 fire extinguishers, 100,000 pairs of blue-denim pants, umpty-umpty-ump first-aid kits, nozzles, pumping units, stretcher litters, shovels, folding cots...
...Kankakee, Ill., firemen rushed to put out a grass fire while the house in an adjoining lot burned down-it was just over the city line and thus out of bounds...
Disappointed fire fighters hustled to a blaze made by a missile that just missed Lehman Hall but caught the end of Wigglesworth. There were casualties there to be handled by the medical corps. Much neglected Robinson Hall got its share in the fun as Harvard firemen stormed through her portals to squelch an irate incendiary bomb...
...insult. . . . I predict that it is the straw that will break the back of the unfair and inequitable wages and prices camel of the Government." The speaker was the usually conservative David B. Robertson, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. His subject: the decision of a special railway emergency board, affecting 400,000 members of his and four other operating railroad unions...