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Despite the ARP's plea for Volunteer Firemen, Cambridge's quota to date is a mere drop in the bucket. The Cambridge fire department has lost valuable men to the armed forces and the assistance of Volunteers will be a necessity if a large five breaks loose. Yet for the proposed squad of a thousand Volunteers, only a hundred have showed...
Since the Auxiliary Firemen re called out for second alarm fires as well as possible enemy raids, they get careful training with ladders, pumps, pullmotors and the rest of the colorful paraphernalia that go with the long red trucks. The need is pressing and the course promises to be one of the most interesting in the Civilian Defense program. There will be practice in emergency rescue work and a change to operate the Department's high pressure hoses. Many Harvard men have the time to join the Auxiliaries and the work may be the most important in the volunteer service...
Although Fire Chief Herman E. Gutheim has expressed a need for 1000 firemen, he fully realizes that the number of men available for civilian defense work is definitely limited. Chief Gutheim hopes that additional men from the pre-draft group will be available in the near future...
With regular firemen and auxiliaries being rapidly taken into the Service, the problem of maintaining a sufficient fire-fighting force is becoming increasingly difficult...
During the coming week members of the Cambridge auxiliary Fire Department will show movies of firemen in action. The pictures will be shown in each of the House dining halls this week, either during lunch or supper...