FIRE DEPARTMENT OF MINNEAPOLIS.

FIRE DEPARTMENT OF MINNEAPOLIS.

在明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯，酋长斯特斯顿（Stetston）报告说，过去一年的损失为335,110.47美元，这比上一年的损失显着下降，自1889年以来最小的损失。1897年的警报数量是840年，其中五次是五场开火造成的损失范围为近13,000美元至10,000美元。在其中两个情况下，损失远远超过了保险。三个额外尺寸的蒸汽消防车的部门夫妇的设备；七个急速和十次二级发动机服务；两秒钟和一秒钟的发动机备用；十二辆软管货车，其中六辆装有30加仑的化学罐和250英尺的四分之三英寸的化学软管；和十辆四轮软管的服务；三辆四轮软管的服装；两辆航空和四辆城市卡车正在使用，一辆储备金中的一辆城市卡车； eight double-tank chemical engines in service and one singletank chemical engine in reserve; one Hale water tower; one supply-wagon (fitted with turret nozzle); six fuel wagons; twenty-two exercising wagons; one horseshoeing wagon; two fire alarm telegraph wagons; seven chief’s, one fire marshal’s, and one veterinary surgeon’s buggy, besides cutters and twenty sets of bob sleds; 49,306 feet of three and one-half-inch hose of all kinds, of which 21,122 feet are in poor condition. Chief Stetson, therefore, recommends the purchase of several thousand feet of new hose and 1,500 feet of chemical hose. He also recommends that the change of the fire alarm system to central office system be made as soon as possible. Classifying the alarms,they were as follows: Five hundred and twenty-five by fire alarm telegraph; 212 still alarms; sixty-seven by telephone. twenty-two by American District Telegraph; thirteen personal services, and one first alarm call; also ten second alarms; two third alarms; four second and third alarms combined; and twenty-three special calls. The department has traveled, in response to alarms, 5,810 miles, making a total distance traveled both ways of 11,620 miles, being an average of 187 and one-half miles to each apparatus. Engine companies stretched 439.550 feet of hose, or about eighty-three miles. Engine Co. No. 3 stretched the largest amount, 39,550. Hook and ladder and chemical companies have raised 19,317 feet of ladders; hook and ladders, chemicals, and hose wagons carrying small chemicals, h«ve discharged 326 tanks; and hose wagons with combination chemical attachment have discharged 180 tanks—making a grand total of chemicals used of about 22,677 gallons. The total amount of hour services at fires has been 4,728:20, an average of seventy-five hours; fifteen minutes to each company. Eighteen persons were rescued from burning buildings by officers and men of the department. The salvage corps continues to keep up its good name in the way of good services as usually rendered by such organizations. The cost of maintenance was comparatively small, when the saving to property owners and insurance companies is taken into consideration. Under the able superintendance of Mr. John T. Ruane, superintendent, salvage corps company No. 1 has responded, during the year 1897. to 314 alarms; worked at fires 260 hours and thirty-five minutes; spread 756 covers; and used twenty-eight small chemicals, or about 196 gallons of chemicals.

在明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯，酋长斯特斯顿（Stetston）报告说，过去一年的损失为335,110.47美元，这比上一年的损失显着下降，自1889年以来最小的损失。1897年的警报数量是840年，其中五次是五场开火造成的损失范围为近13,000美元至10,000美元。在其中两个情况下，损失远远超过了保险。三个额外尺寸的蒸汽消防车的部门夫妇的设备；七个急速和十次二级发动机服务；两秒钟和一秒钟的发动机备用；十二辆软管货车，其中六辆装有30加仑的化学罐和250英尺的四分之三英寸的化学软管；和十辆四轮软管的服务；三辆四轮软管的服装；两辆航空和四辆城市卡车正在使用，一辆储备金中的一辆城市卡车； eight double-tank chemical engines in service and one singletank chemical engine in reserve; one Hale water tower; one supply-wagon (fitted with turret nozzle); six fuel wagons; twenty-two exercising wagons; one horseshoeing wagon; two fire alarm telegraph wagons; seven chief’s, one fire marshal’s, and one veterinary surgeon’s buggy, besides cutters and twenty sets of bob sleds; 49,306 feet of three and one-half-inch hose of all kinds, of which 21,122 feet are in poor condition. Chief Stetson, therefore, recommends the purchase of several thousand feet of new hose and 1,500 feet of chemical hose. He also recommends that the change of the fire alarm system to central office system be made as soon as possible. Classifying the alarms,they were as follows: Five hundred and twenty-five by fire alarm telegraph; 212 still alarms; sixty-seven by telephone. twenty-two by American District Telegraph; thirteen personal services, and one first alarm call; also ten second alarms; two third alarms; four second and third alarms combined; and twenty-three special calls. The department has traveled, in response to alarms, 5,810 miles, making a total distance traveled both ways of 11,620 miles, being an average of 187 and one-half miles to each apparatus. Engine companies stretched 439.550 feet of hose, or about eighty-three miles. Engine Co. No. 3 stretched the largest amount, 39,550. Hook and ladder and chemical companies have raised 19,317 feet of ladders; hook and ladders, chemicals, and hose wagons carrying small chemicals, h«ve discharged 326 tanks; and hose wagons with combination chemical attachment have discharged 180 tanks—making a grand total of chemicals used of about 22,677 gallons. The total amount of hour services at fires has been 4,728:20, an average of seventy-five hours; fifteen minutes to each company. Eighteen persons were rescued from burning buildings by officers and men of the department. The salvage corps continues to keep up its good name in the way of good services as usually rendered by such organizations. The cost of maintenance was comparatively small, when the saving to property owners and insurance companies is taken into consideration. Under the able superintendance of Mr. John T. Ruane, superintendent, salvage corps company No. 1 has responded, during the year 1897. to 314 alarms; worked at fires 260 hours and thirty-five minutes; spread 756 covers; and used twenty-eight small chemicals, or about 196 gallons of chemicals.