新卡车。
纽约州伊萨卡市的当地记者就这样讲述了去年春天这两个男孩是如何用他们的新“钩梯车”成功地扑灭了一场大火的。
上星期一早晨，大约四点左右，住在交易所街的奈尔特·艾伦先生被他房间里一股强烈的烟味所惊醒，一觉醒来，他就开始呕吐
泰恩发现整个房子的上部都着火了，当他试图进入隔壁的房间时，火焰从门里窜了出来。关闭门,匆忙地唤醒他的妻子,他们抢走了点儿衣服,走下台阶,双手和双膝爬行,以避免吸烟,并使他们逃避,避免被烧毁的房子,邻居们唤醒了这一次的不寻常的眩光,他在火堆上和教堂的钟上拉响了警报，胡克和云梯的孩子们被拉了出来。第一次警报响了大约二十分钟后，连队把他们的卡车赶到地面上，准备作战。虽然火势蔓延得很厉害，后来才发现除了家具的一部分外，什么也救不了。当他们到达的时候，大楼已经完全被火包围了，所以他们所能做的就是扔出钩子，把它拖下来，挽救邻近的房屋。考虑到寒冷的早晨，大多数人在夜间都睡得很香，他们在地面上的短暂时间说明了他们对第一次任务的迅速响应。
这是孩子们得到这辆新卡车后第一次着火，他们自然有些兴奋，互相争着看谁第一个到卡车屋去。吉米从来没有停下来下楼梯，而是从二楼商店的窗户里跳了出来，跳了两下，落在沃特街，然后就不见了。我们看到马特从华盛顿拐进了美因街;他朝篱笆跳过去，被撞到了浸信会教堂的院子中央。艾尔的冲力太大了，他的双脚把身后的旗子踩在了街道中央。而汤姆则以两分一刻钟的时间打败了闪电。市场低迷,华盛顿,前景,交换,主要就像鬼魂,抓住卡车,每条线拉紧,采取了“魔鬼造成take-the-hindmost的步态主要街道,当他们打开交换,后车轮跳了19英尺4英寸,把泥浆清楚沃什伯恩的房子,要不是他们有这么好的撬杆，卡车就会掉转船头。但他们从未停下来，当他们撞上铁轨时，他们正以每小时90英里的速度前进，还留下了大量的蒸汽。说到这里，《阿提卡新闻报》倒在磨坊上，把他的料斗撞飞了，把传动装置弄坏了，他只好关上磨坊门; the pole-ers shouted, the leaders swung to right and left, the lines became slackened and got entangled with their feet and knocked the Old Harry out of the Foreman; but when the Truck struck the ground again at the old Maynard place, evenline was straight and in place. Arrived at the fire, they ran a ladder up in an apple tree on the opposite side of the street, threw their hooks on the wood-shed and hauled the cellar out into the garden ; next they hooked on an eight-inch square beech post, gave one yank and broke the post in two ; but the momentum was so great that the rear end of the pole was driven through an eighteen-inch green elm tree that stood there, so that the end projected about two feet beyond the tree. Johnny N— was found hanging on the end of the pole, but whether he dodged around the tree and grabbed the pole as it came through, or whether he went through the tree with the pole, he says he is unable to tell, as he was in such a hurry. The four fat men of the Company failed to respond ; three of them are supposed to have been unable to turn about in their bed-rooms, and in their excitement forgot to back out. The other, who lives a mile or more away, is capable of running sixteen miles in twentyeight hours any day, and is supposed to have been unable to make the turn into Exchange street, and so got lost on Bennington hill. Billy failed to connect ; and when the rest went to find him for an explanation, they found he had got the larboard sleeve of his fire-shirt on the starboard leg, the starboard sleeve on the larboard leg, the right boot on the left foot, the left boot on the foot of the bed-post, and had used up a whole box of matches in trying to light a chair-post for a lamp ; a committee took him in hand and untangled him in two hours. Frank E— has not found out about the fire yet, because he had just gone to bed as they rang the bell.
