Fire Extinguishment by Policemen.
[From the American Exchange and Review.]
Dissatisfaction with the Fire Commission of Philadelphia, and certain theories of supposed benefits to be derived from the consolidation of different municipal departments, bring up again the project for the combination of the police and fire corps of the city. That a Fire Department is a branch of policing, has its argument in the fact that the policemen and the Firemen are public defences against public danger, but they are set against a very different order of jeopardy, and require, on the part of those engaged in the two services, different lines of special fitness. Both make demands upon physical courage, but a higher order of moral courage is demanded of the Fireman, and, besides this, the systematic conduct of fire extinguishment is a branch of engineering.
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