Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 548
in spite of all this,our annual fire losses are from ten to twentytimes more than those of any country in Europe. Better building laws and the universal adoptionof fire-prevention ordinances, are going to changeall this for us, in time, but as yet our annual fireloss stuns the average European by… … AN ENGLISH FIRE-ENGINE. radically different. A naval officer has alwaysbeen chief of the London fire-brigade, and thefiremen are usually recruited from the marineservice, a time-honored custom giving preferenceto men who have been at least five years at sea.
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