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...trainees will be shown the apparatus and the methods of operating it, and then will practice on the equipment themselves. According to Cambridge Fire officials, no special equipment has been purchased to deal with an emergency. Although there are several of the English-type, portable pump-and-hose carts, which can be fastened to the rear of an ordinary touring car, they all belong to private firms, and none are owned by the Fire Department...
...orders nor Government restrictions have pushed civilian rubber goods completely off production lines. Because U.S. homes, factories and automobiles would be crippled without them, the industry is making over 20 million V belts (to run factory motors, refrigerators, oil burners, auto fans, etc.), millions of feet of garden hose (for civilian defense), 40 million feet of fire hose (two years' normal sales...
Auxillary Firemen--regular training, including handling hose, ladders, water and first aid equipment, etc. The class will be limited to 50 students, faculty, and male employees. It will require between 30 and 40 hours, with 2-hour sessions to be arranged for once or twice a week in the late afternoon or evening. The first meeting will be held early in February at the Fire Station opposite Memorial Hall. Mrs. Wise will answer questions about...
Auxiliary Fireman--regular training, including handling hose, ladders, water and first aid equipment, etc. The class will be limited to 50 students, faculty, and male employees. It will require between 30 and 40 hours, with 2-hour sessions to be arranged for once or twice a week in the late afternoon or evening. The first meeting will be held early in February at the Fire Station opposite Memorial Hall. Mrs. Wise will answer questions about...
Substitutes for rubber, rather than rubberlike elastomers, are Goodrich's Koroseal, Union Carbide & Chemical's Vinyon, etc. Most of these are synthetic resins, i.e., plastics flexible enough for use in hose, fuel-tank seals, etc. Thiokol, made by Dow Chemical Co., is used as a barrage-balloon coating by the Vulcan Proofing Co. of Brooklyn...