Harper's Magazine, Volume 184Harper & Brothers, 1941 - American literature |
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... fire boats , 13 service ladder trucks , over 12,000 feet of ladders , about 170,000 feet of assorted sizes of hose , and a high- pressure water system just for fire fight- ing . Its personnel is tops . Its chief fire officers are ...
... fire boats , 13 service ladder trucks , over 12,000 feet of ladders , about 170,000 feet of assorted sizes of hose , and a high- pressure water system just for fire fight- ing . Its personnel is tops . Its chief fire officers are ...
Page 403
... fire train- ing . Most American fire companies , through no fault of theirs , have spent the majority of their fire - fighting hours put- ting out rubbish heaps . Why ? Be- cause there are only thirty to forty big fires a year in the ...
... fire train- ing . Most American fire companies , through no fault of theirs , have spent the majority of their fire - fighting hours put- ting out rubbish heaps . Why ? Be- cause there are only thirty to forty big fires a year in the ...
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... fire - fighting apparatus beats the world . IV What is to be done ? Learn from Lon- don chiefly . England solved its organization prob- lem by putting London's fire chief under the Home Office and making him su- preme over all England ...
... fire - fighting apparatus beats the world . IV What is to be done ? Learn from Lon- don chiefly . England solved its organization prob- lem by putting London's fire chief under the Home Office and making him su- preme over all England ...
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