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Oops. In Kansas City, Kans., firemen pulled up at a packing plant, rushed into a building shrouded in smoke, found it was the smokehouse...
Protective equipment was moving steadily if slowly into cities in the "target areas." Auxiliary firemen were training. Test air-raid alarms were increasing. The Civil Air Patrol, of which Landis is particularly proud, was doing a bang-up job, flying a half million miles a week on courier and scouting work, though Army censorship kept its light under a bushel...
...national enrollment of volunteers totals more than 10,000,000; an initial lot of 5,000,000 gas masks will be manufactured; presently facilities will permit the making of 2,500,000 masks a month. Procurement directives have been issued to the Quartermaster General for 100,000 sets of firemen's turnout coats and trousers, 108,000 pairs of rubber boots, 400,000 more helmets. The Surgeon General has been asked to buy medical supplies in millions of units; more than 200,000 beds and cots...
When the Auxilitary Firemen are not able to cope with a situation, they work in coordination which the Cambridge Fire Department. Also, Auxiliaries may be used as a reserve and stand by to aid the regular Cambridge force if their assistance is required...
...part the cathedral was saved by firemen who stood on the roof during more than an hour of terrific blitz and tossed dozens of incendiary bombs a minute to the ground. In part it was saved by the foresight of Canterbury's famed "Red Dean," Dr. Hewlett Johnson, who learned a lesson from the bombing of Coventry Cathedral, some time ago had ladders run up along all Canterbury's flying buttresses so that firemen could rush to the roof...