CORRESPONDENCE
Another Form of Fire Apparatus Hazard
To the Editor:
Notwithstanding all that has been written and the many discussions by chiefs, fire control engineers, insurance organizations and others, volunteer firemen’s associations still continue to urge their members to bring apparatus when attending county meetings.
Many, if not most of these meetings are held at night. The respective communities are deprived of some or all of their fire protection during the most important and serious time of the day. At night people go to sleep with the assurance that the fire department will protect them.
At one meeting, recently the “fourth degree” session was held in a hall considerably remote from where the business session was held. The obliging committee saw to it that the members leaving early were transported back to their parked private cars on a piece of apparatus. I was a passenger on one of these trips and I had the ride of my life. The driver and tillerman (for this was a ladder truck) were both somewhat the worse for prohibition. They took all corners on one wheel— or so it seemed. That the destination was reached safely was a miracle.
Officers of volunteer firemen’s associations can do a big work in discouraging this sort of thing.
Very truly yours,
G. N. N.
Box 52 Association Arranges Luncheons—A series of luncheons has been arranged by the Box 52 Association at the Boston Chamber of Commerce. The members meet for luncheon the first Wednesday of each month.
