Word: pipemen
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Meanwhile pipemen fought into the flaming lobby with battering streams of water. They edged into the heart of the fire, heads down, coughing, while other firemen in the rear sent protective streams cascading over them. The fire-apparently started by a short circuit in a false ceiling above the Silver Lounge-died) almost as abruptly as it began. In half an hour the blackened, sodden lobby was free of flame...
...child the staircases burned entirely through and fell, so that there was no means of descent. It seemed as if the brave fireman and his precious burden must perish in the flames, but in a moment he appeared at a window and called out lustily to the pipemen below, "Put on that three-inch pipe;" and when they had done it, he cried, "Now throw me the strongest stream you can, right in this window;" and in dashed the stream with powerful force, right through the casement where he stood. Well, sir, I never should have believed...
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