Word: firemen
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...near "Rum Quay," soon got into the rum. A barrel burst, shot a fan of blue-blazing rum into the air. Soon concussions rocked the warehouse and burning rum ran in flickering blue rivers into the Thames. Blue flame fingered halfway across the Thames. London's brass-hatted firemen came by fireboat and engine. As the rum burnt, its evaporated alcohol made the firemen tipsy. They put on gas masks. All over town Londoners could see the fire's reflection...
...altitude. The commander reached for a row of pullcords overhead, yanked at them to release water ballast. Slowly, painfully, the shuddering Akron shouldered her way aloft again. An "all hands on" brought the off-watch from their bunks. Officers, bos'ns' mates, riggers, firemen groped their way along narrow catwalks to their stations...
...Angeles County, firemen razed 435 badly damaged buildings. Insurance companies handled claims as quickly as they could get reports from their investigators, but motorists whose cars had been mutilated by falling wreckage found to their sorrow that earthquake hazard is not covered by standard automobile insurance...
Pushing into Long Beach, reporters found that that town was hardest hit. A theatre, the Woodrow Wilson High School, the Press-Telegram building were wrecked. Two firemen were crushed in their firehouse. Fifty-one citizens were dead. The Seaside Hospital had partially collapsed, killing ten patients. Doctors treated hundreds in the streets, operated under automobile headlights on people lying on litters which still trembled with the ceaseless subterranean labor. Death and injury came in weird forms. Many people hurt themselves leaping from windows. An expectant mother, pulled from wreckage, died as her baby was born...
...Enter the Court of Honor built on Pennsylvania Avenue to review the six-mile parade composed of soldiers, sailors, marines, troopers, national guardsmen, high school cadets, 25 governors, visiting firemen, police squads, G. A. R. veterans (one car), C. S. A. veterans (five cars), American Legionaries, Gold Star Mothers, Boy Scouts, Knights of Pythias, Red Men, real Indians,Tammany Indians and merrymaking Democrats by the thousand...