Sees Permanent Benefits from Auxiliary Firemen
“The war is providing a new type of civic education which will have permanent benefits,” declared Albert H. Hall, director of the New York State War Council’s Office of War Training Programs, at graduation exercises for 2,000 civilian defense auxiliary firemen of the Buffalo, N. Y., Fire Department recently.
Mr. Hall said that "After this war is won, fire departments will be in the strongest position that they have ever held. Think what it means, for example, to the Buffalo Fire Department to enroll thousands of auxiliaries from all walks of life. These citizens and their families learn about the fire department. They know how it operates. They know its problems. They will become its strong supporters in war, and in peace. Fire departments throughout the country will probably gain lasting citizen understanding of their personnel and equipment problems. That which is true of the Fire Service is likewise true of other branches of civilian protection and civilian war services. The war is thus providing a new type of civic education which will have permanent benefits.”
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