标准化康涅狄格州互换的火灾设备

标准化康涅狄格州互换的火灾设备

The Connecticut State Council of Defense has called upon every town and city in the state which has a fire department to put into effect a plan to interchange apparatus in case of emergency. The matter has been investigated by the council’s committee on industrial survey which reported to the council recently that, due to the efforts in the past few years of the State Fire Chiefs’ Association, there is mutual aid and co-operation to a very considerable extent among the various towns and cities. The committee did not recommend at this time any effort to change the various threads now used. Instead, it recommended most strongly that every fire department in the state be equipped with a sufficient number of standard adapter couplings to permit of ready mutual aid. The adapter proposed has been designed under the direction of John C. Moran, chief of the Hartford fire department, who was named by the Fire Chiefs’ Association a committee of one to assist the council’s committee in this matter. The committee also has had the benefit of the advice of Horace B. Clark, chairman of the board of fire commissioners of Hartford. The State Council of Defense decided at a recent meeting to make an effort to have every town in the state which has a fire department provide itself with these standard adapter couplings so as to make mutual aid possible at all times throughout Connecticut. The council has arranged to secure these couplings at $5.75 each, and towns are to be given an opportunity to buy them from the council at this rate. The council voted that its committee on industrial survey be authorized in the name of the council to instruct various agencies of the council throughout the state as follows: “In case where authority is not at present vested in the chief or acting chief to ask or render assistance in an emergency, to obtain for him such authority. To arrange with the local departments in all districts-to place orders directly with the Connecticut State Council of Defense for a suitable number of hydrant and hose couolings.” The committee will immediately send letters to all chairmen of the council’s local agencies throughout the state urging them to take prompt action in this matter. The letters will include order blanks on which the towns and cities may place orders for adapter couplings, and will also include a working drawing of the coupling which has been designed under the direction of Chief Moran, of Hartford. The State Council of Defense feels confident that the adoption of the recommendation by towns throughout the state will provide an excellent basis for the interchange of fire apparatus on an elaborate scale in case of emergency.

根据纽波特酋长的年度报告。R. I.，该部门对去年的207次火灾作出了回应，其中包括158张和4tynine Bell警报。没有非常严重的大火，总损失仅为36,768.71美元。该财产的保险为$ 574,500。为了在目前运营消防部门，酋长要求拨款71,045美元，并建议安装两个额外的火警盒，一些新的消防栓以及购买1.000英尺的新软管。