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Fighting the Flames! Or, Twenty-Seven Years in the Montreal Fire Brigade; A Record of Prominent Fires, Thrilling Adventures, and Hair-Breadth Escapes Together with Practical Suggestions for Improvement

Fighting the Flames! Or, Twenty-Seven Years in the Montreal Fire Brigade; A Record of Prominent Fires, Thrilling Adventures, and Hair-Breadth Escapes Together with Practical Suggestions for Improvement


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...lives first, bricks and morter after, for I claim that no fire department is complete without a properly organized and separate lifesaving corps, and I am sorry to have to write that some of the best organized brigades on this continent have fearfully overlooked this important branch of its equipment. This is another of my hobbies, but I have seen so much loss of life in the past twenty-seven years, that I cannot help expressing my feelings strongly on this matter, and have no hesitation in saying that the death rate might have been much less had even the ordinary appliances been placed in the hands of the Brigade. I will again return to the fire. As I said before, I threw in my lot with No. 2, who were so nobly fighting their way up to the attics of the building. I had gone outside of the building two or three times for the purpose of taking a good look at the progress of the fire, and at the chances the Brigade had of victory. On one occasion two gentlemen, who were in the crowd (one of them a city alderman) called my attention to the unsafe state of the building, and asked if I was aware that it was condemned. I told them I had been aware of the fact as far back as 1858 or 1859. They then asked me why we did not leave it, and not risk our lives? I answered, " It may be all right for you gentlemen to stand quietly looking on and suggest such matters, but you have yet to learn that a fireman loses all thought of danger in the heat and din." They replied, "That may be all very well, but men's lives ought not to be risked in such a reckless manner." Just then Chief Bertram came in sight and the alderman called him, and about the same conversation took place between them, the Chief telling him that there was no danger at present, but as so...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781236245304
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 64
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 123624530X
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 132 gr


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