木皮带轮的危险。
使用木制皮带轮的危险以及试图用贫穷的头大火做的徒劳的危险，这两者都在调动者约翰·B·里斯（John B.德克萨斯州，在Trimty County Lumber Company的工厂上。里斯先生说；“大火起源于磨坊大楼的主楼层，是由木皮带轮上的腰带摩擦引起的。在大火前的那天，这台修剪机上的皮带轮给予了很大的麻烦，大约6点。米，8月50日，磨坊必须关闭以允许该皮带轮和皮带修理，此时发现皮带轮着火了。几分钟后，麻烦显然已经过去了，所有的火灾都消失了。但是，随着这些皮带轮的特殊结构以及制造的材料的性质，火进食并会像这里一样持有数小时；几个小时后，它爆发了几个小时。当守望者第一次发现时，大火在这台机器的尽头燃烧着。 T here was no hose attached to the plug near this point, and by the time the watchman got the hose from the other side of the mill, and in the evident excitement, no connection was ever made. The people were driven hack by the flames; and, although plenty of help had arrived, no water was gotten on the mill. The outside hydrants on the west side supplied enough water to save the kiln, tramways, and lumberyard. A 55,000-gallon tank. 105-foot elevation, supplying through six-inch mains ten hydrants in mill building and under transfer shed, 1,700 feet of new hose, standard size (not attached to plugs, 750 feet of same being locket! up in storeroom), and a Prescott fire pump of 750 gallons per minute capacityall these appliances were made useless, the hydrants being in the building and, therefore, could not IK* reached for the heat of the flames. Had there been barrels of water with buckets, fire could and no doubt would have been put out by the watchman. Had sufficient outside hydrants been provided with hose, as required, the loss would have been only partial. There was no organisation among the men, only a few knowing where the hose was kept and where to locate the hydrants among the machines.”
在俄亥俄州扬斯敦（Youngstown）通过最近对消防部门的添加，该机构现在包括以下内容：首席，1,500美元；助理酋长。$ 1,200;两名助理酋长，1,092美元；六个元帅，1,080美元；七个助手。$ 960;二十三名消防员，900美元；十二个学员，$ 780;两名工程师，1,080美元； three assistant engineers. $900 each. The cadets are promoted to firemen at the end of one year’s service and their pay is increased.
