Albany, Ga., Again Has Low Record
The city of Albany, Ga., because of the good work of Chief D. W. Brosnan, has established a low record of the number of fires in buildings during 1930. During the year there were only eighty-six building fires with a total property loss of $10,338, or a per capita loss of fifty-seven cents, and a property loss of one per cent, of the value of property involved in fires. During the year the department responded to ninety-eight alarms, of which two were false alarms and ten were to extinguish fires in automobiles. The insurance loss paid was $9,673, and the uninsured loss was $665.
Atlantic City Deputy Chief Dead—Deputy Chief Daniel Johnson, of the Atlantic City, N. J., Fire Department, died of heart trouble while supervising a fire in Baltic Avenue. He was fifty-nine years old and joined the force forty years ago.
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