Eight Firemen Injured at New London Blaze
On March 22, 1953, a still alarm was sounded at 1:47 A.M. by an alert watchman on duty for the N. Y., N. H. & H. R.R., at New London, Conn. Seconds later, a box alarm (No. 329) was sounded by a schoolboy, which brought three engines and two ladder trucks to the scene of the fire. One of the ladder trucks was the new 85-ft. truck recently purchased by the City of New London.
About 1:50 a.m., Lt. Earl Rose, who was driving one of the new Ford cars equipped with private radio toward the fire, noticed that it was out of control and he immediately radioed Headquarters for more apparatus.
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