Complete Motorization the Aim for 1922
The Fire Departments of the Country All Adopting Automobile Apparatus—Popularity of the Triple Combination Pumper—Fire Prevention and Fire Fighting Go Together
THE statistics included in the tables which follow, representing over seven hundred fire departments of cities ranging in population from 3,000 to the largest, are significant in many respects. They bring to notice especially the splendid efficiency that the fire forces of the United States and Canada have attained both in apparatus, equipment and personnel. They also emphasize the stability of the fire-fighting field, showing as they do that even in this period of stagnation and business depression, which has just passed, the fire departments by no means stood still, but that, on the contrary, the steady advance in efficiency continued through all of the war and post-war period.
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