Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 548
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. … called; and this brigade, in management and rou-tine work, is not unlike many large Americanfire-departments, though the apparatus used is A MODERN LONDON FIRE STATION. It is argued that the work of a fireman is of anature more readily performed by a sailor, whois not only accustomed to danger and…
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