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Assistant firemen will aid him in showing how such equipment as a pullmotor, various kinds of gas masks, and types of stretchers are used. Applying first aid to victims, a procedure which is said to have saved numerous lives in the Cocoanut Grove holocaust, will also be covered thoroughly in the talk. Under Walton's direction, the University ARP course was completely revamped and Red Cross courses applying strictly to air raid emergencies have been devised for those interested...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spellman will Talk on Raid Debris Rescues | 12/8/1942 | See Source »

...East Point, Ga., four firemen and three city council members were called this week for examinations. Without waiting for teenagers, Illinois draft officials started working on registrants with collateral dependents and expected to induct childless married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANPOWER: Disorderly Draft | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

Panic's Sequel. Firemen broke down the revolving door, found it blocked by bodies of the dead, six deep. They tried to pull a man out through a side window: his legs were held tight by the mass of struggling people behind him. In an hour the fire was out and firemen began untangling the piles of bodies. One hard bitten fireman went into hysterics when he picked up a body and a foot came off in his hand. They found a girl dead in a telephone booth, a bartender still standing behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Boston's Worst | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

These techniques of evacuating victims and administering first-aid will be fully demonstrated by the doctor and a group of assistant firemen. Equipment will include a pullmotor, special legless stretchers, and several types of gas-masks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DR. SPELLMAN WILL GIVE APR ADDRESS | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...Elect Thomas E. Dewey's home in Pawling, N.Y. The columnist's fire started in a secret washroom (its door a swinging bookcase), burned up 600 books, smoked her out for the night. The Governor-elect's fire spread from a defective flue in the fireplace; firemen chopped a hole in the side of the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 16, 1942 | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

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