Chief Emil Carlson of Tacoma Resigns
Emil Carlson, Chief of the Seattle, Wash , Fire Department for sixteen years and a member of the force for thirty-eight years, retired on May 1.
Back in the early eighties, he was a member of the crew of a Swedish windjammer. Tired of the sea, he decided that Tacoma was as good a place as any to take up a landlubber’s life. That was in 1888. Six years later, then a bricklayer, he was accepted as a member of the Fire Department. In 1916 he was made head of the fire-fighting force.
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