Word: pumpers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, police and fire officials have taken intricate security measures to keep the engine--pumper number two--under lock and key. Police cordons were set up around the fire station on Portland St. last night to keep photographers and reporters away. The fire station's personnel barricaded themselves behind locked doors and windows. "Nobody gets in," one fireman said...
Several city Councillors have proposed that the pumper could defray part of the trip's expenses by fighting local fires between here and Kenosha. Councillor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 has suggested that repairs could be made by local companies, but Fire Chief Henry E. Kilfoyle assured the city council that "nobody cast of the Mississippi...
Other council members have suggested that Edward J. Sullivan, the council's only truckdriver, would be a logical choice to drive the pumper across the Mississippi. But Kilfoyle won't let Sullivan near the engine...