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...firehouses of Norman Rockwell's bucolic America, firemen passed the hours between alarms playing checkers and showing off the polished brass and bright red trucks to wide-eyed young visitors. But for the volunteer firemen of Genoa, Texas, in suburban Houston, that was not enough. In the past three years, eight bored Genoa firemen have set about 40 fires in abandoned buildings and grass fields. As soon as the blazes were going, the arsonists would dash back to the firehouse and rush off to put out their own fires...
...Genoa firemen were quite busy until they made the mistake of setting fire to a barn owned by the brother of a Houston fire department official. An investigation of the blaze led to the Genoa firehouse, and the overeager fire fighters were exposed. Explained one of the firemen charged last week with arson: "We'd hang around the station on the night shift without a thing to do. We just wanted to get the red light flashing and the bells clanging...
...Portage County, Ohio jury found Jerry Rupe guilty of interfering with firemen but was deadlocked over the felony counts of arson, first-degree riot, and assaulting a fireman. The jurymen were dismissed after eight hours of deliberation on the three felony charges...
...youth of Europe." On the cliffs of Dover, the European Movement, a pro-Market pressure group, built a bonfire to signal France that Britain was rejoining Europe. It was lit by former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, and burned so fiercely that nearby grass was set afire and firemen had to be called...
MBTA subway service between Harvard and South Station was interrupted for an hour yesterday afternoon after a Harvard-bound train became disabled. Cambridge firemen were called to extinguish several small fires along the right-of-way near Kendall Station. There were no injuries...