Explosive Tool Gets Its Test Under Fire
Opening is blasted in wood frame building to ventilate and later to enter basement of San Francisco meat plant
On May 1 of this year, a four-alarm fire swept through the James Allan & Sons meat packing plant in San Francisco’s Butchertown district. The newscaster of one of the TV stations telecasting the fire pointed out that San Francisco’s oldest and newest pieces of fire fighting equipment were among the 52 used by the more than 250 firemen at the blaze. The oldest was Water Tower 1, which was purchased by the department in 1902, and the newest the high-energy forcible entry tool, Jet-Axe, which was obtained only this spring.
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