Conclusions on St. Louis Car Company’s Plant Fire
Report of St. Louis Fire Prevention Bureau on the Destructive Blaze Which Destroyed a Large Part of the Plant—Lessons Pointed by the Fire
ACCORDING to the report of this fire by the chief of the fire department of St. Louis, William G. Panzer, the south end of the works were well involved when the first company arrived in answer to a sprinkler alarm. There were 147 firemen on hand with the following apparatus: nine motor apparatus, eight steamers, four ladder trucks and five fuel wagons. There were thirty - three engine streams thrown, ranging from ⅞ to 1¼ inches and 17,000 feet of 2½ and 3-inch cotton rubber-lined hose being laid. Of this 6,000 feet of hose were destroyed by fire.
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