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Chief Thomas P. Purcell, head of the fire brigade of Dublin, is well known to the fire chiefs of this country, and not least to the members of the International Association of Fire Engineers, whose conventions he has attended on more than one occasion. According to the annual report of his brigade, the firemen of the Irish capital were called out by 211 alarms in 1908, as against 250 in 1907. The actual fires attended in the city numbered 148, of which 16 were serious, 17 medium and 115 slight; 5 fires outside the district were attended, also, 50 chimney calls and 8 false alarms. Thirty-three fires were of such a nature as to demand special notice; 30 of these occurred in the night time; 17 were on premises unoccupied and without any caretaker. Some were discovered only when the flames burst through the roofs or windows. The lives of 14 persons were endangered at fires, and one life was lost; but this return, says the chief, has reference only to such fires as were notified to the brigade, and does not include any of the deplorable number of infantile deaths due to flannelette garments or unguarded fireplaces in tenement-rooms. Amongst the principal causes of fires were—defective construction, 23; spontaneous, 9; arson, 7: oil lamps and stoves, 7; lights in contact, 7; lights thrown down, 6; sparks, 6. The causes of 43 fires were not ascertained. Fires occurred in 63 dwellinghouses and tenements, 23 shops, warehouses and stores, 22 stables, 18 factories and workshops, 11 forage-lofts and stores, 11 offices and 6 institutions, etc. The two steamers were used at 9 fires. Other appliances of the brigade are 5 fire ladders and escapes, 3 hose tenders, with pompier ladders. 3 telescopic ladders and smaller apparatus, with 13 horses. Eight officers and 40 men form the strength of the brigade. Under the new regulations, each fireman now gets 24 hours off every tenth day, and an annual vacation of 14 days. The brigade has two properly equiped ambulance vehicles and received last year 1,718 ambulance calls.
In fifty years Portland, Me., has had twenty steam fire engines.
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