BALTIMORE AND ITS MODEL FIRE DEPARTMENT

BALTIMORE AND ITS MODEL FIRE DEPARTMENT

The Manual Force, Modern Equipment and Recently Installed High Pressure Water System

保护马里兰州巴尔的摩市免受火焰的人的力量在整个西方世界的眼中如此之好，以至于这里没有赞美可以增加他们熟练的桂冠。但是，由于该消防部门像其他城市一样，在执行官和设备中都在不断发生变化，巴尔的摩消防组织此时值得参考。当通用警报召集时，需要执行能力和超级属性来处理整个部门。莫夫酋长霍顿（Horton）与1904年的大火作斗争，对他有奇怪的态度，强烈的风将大火推向了串行的建筑物线，其中大多数只不过是射击场，只有一半的设备。这是一个使巴尔的摩历史变化的故事。第二次“三个九人”设置了每个轮子A移动的副酋长艾米希（Emrich）指挥。大火，并向巴尔的摩人表明，消防部门的指挥官与该国最伟大的消防队长一起排名。尖锐的街道大火的第一个警报来自一个自动盒子，带出了打捞的军团，一家发动机公司和一辆卡车公司。这些盒子应该在婴儿期发现一场大火，因为操作它们的恒温器对热量非常敏感。但是，虽然对其中一个盒子响应的设备仍在途中，但第一个街道警报出现了。伯克哈特（Burkhardt）不到不到一分钟的时间就从伦巴德街（Lombard Street）附近的伦巴德街（Lombard Street）的15号房屋的总部着火了。附近的危险区域 - 实际上是在1904年大火的地方D-立即得到他的认可。这位副局长也使用了高速汽车，他回应了拥挤的商业部门的第一个警报，他就在伯克哈特的后面。 He, too, recognized the danger, and the first street alarm was followed by the "four twos,” bringing out at once the apparatus that would respond to second and third alarms. “Curbstone chiefs" and knockers of a similar breed took great delight at that fire in criticising the work of the department. They thought the firemen went at their work too slowly They declared that the firemen entered a dark building and immediately it was ablaze. They did not take into consideration the fact that those firemen had to grope their way through choking smoke to find the blaze and that getting rid of that smoke and giving them a chance to work might have developed the fire, nor did they consider that a high wind was steadily blowing and that the fire had gained a big start. Yet that blaze was fought with the stubbornness and courage of desperation. Against it was used every resource at the command of the city—muscle and nerve backing steam and water—and if it had not been for that heroic light there would have been a repetition of the holocaust of 1904. The majority of the people of Baltimore knew that the lire department had not idled at that task. District Chiefs Burkhardt and Kahl were stationed in the rear of the buildings afire. That was the forefront of the fire and in narrow alleys filled with suffocating smoke the firemen of two districts held their own against heat that blistered them and smoke that filled their lungs to bursting. The curbstone spectators didn't see this phase of tinbattle. Finally Chief Burkhardt saw that in spite of the light he and Kahl and their men were putting up the fire was gaining on them. He reported to Chief Emrich that they couldn't hold the fire, and he was ordered to send in additional first and second alarms. This brought more water to play against the seething furnace, but in time this was seen to be inadequate Kahl then reported to Emrich that the tire was getting beyond control, and the third alarm was pulled. Steadily, though, the fire held its own. and, driving the firemen hack, spread to the Sutton building. Elaines burst from the roof and the windows and with the high wind the companies fighting the rest of the fire found their hands more than full. That decided Emrich. Without hesitation he ordered the general alarm, and in engine houses clear out to the outskirts of the city the “three nines" crashed out on the gong. From Forest Park, from Waverly, from Irvington, from Hampden, the last of the apparatus hurried to the fire. Everything on wheels was in service. Sparks and embers from the fire were being carried by the wind to the roofs of houses blocks beyond, and the deputy chief saw that some protection would have to be afforded those houses. So he ordered No. 22 company to take station at No. 15 house. The movement was like an outpost intercepting the enemy’s scouts. The value of this maneuver was shown in the fact that No. 22 responded to three calls to extinguish incipient fires caused by sparks. When everything in the department was at the fire grounds Emrich decided to scatter a reserve force in the downtown section to guard against any other fires that might break out. Accordingly three provisional companies were recruited on the grounds front all the other companies, and with each under the command of a lieutenant sent to quarters in other downtown districts. The five combination trucks, which carry 800 feet of hose to be used with hydrant pressure, were also stationed at vacant downtown quarters, and these, with the three companies and No. 22, made nine units in reserve. The city was not without protection.