Word: truck
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...work of the firemen, they didn't do any worth mentioning until the crisis was passed. One ladder-truck was on hand with reasonable promptness, but it was fully ten minutes later before a ladder was raised. In the meanwhile the man had been forced to jump and not firemen but students broke his fall with the life net. In the course of time more apparatus arrived and more men, but even then the lack of training and still more evident lack of capable direction were apparent. There was plenty of shouting by all hands and very little "teamwork...
...rush for it and attempted to drag off the extension ladder, breaking the lock in so doing and rendering removal of the ladder impossible. It could only have been raised by six men experienced in its use, however, and there were but two members of the department on the truck, the captain having run back to ring in a second alarm. The lieutenant of the truck company aided by several undergraduates then hurried to get out the life net which was spread below Henney, and only just in time, for even before it was sufficiently manned he was forced...